You have to know your impact on others in order to be able to steer in the direction you would like to.

In these two workshops, you can develop a better awareness of what your body language and communication style signal, as well as strengthen your charisma and stage presence.

At the center of every appearance and presentation is your personality, through which you can only create an atmosphere of trust and evoke real interest.

In this workshop, you will learn how to enter a room and start a presentation to communicate with authentic charisma and presence. Knowing what your body language signals is very essential. With the help of feedback and video analysis, you will analyze your own body language and how to use it appropriately.

Furthermore, in this workshop, you will learn how to deal with unexpected situations and how to create security and trust, for yourself and your conversational partner, at the same time.

Status is typically connected to a certain rank or position and the power that someone has in an organization or in society.

However, in our daily lives, we position ourselves permanently and, to some extent, independently of our position in the company or society (e.g., even a beggar can have a high status, sometimes). We can change our status using our body language, verbal language and how we use space and time.

Everyone prefers a certain status. Raising your status gives you more authority and assertiveness. Lowering your status enhances the status of your counterpart, making you more sympathetic and empathetic.

Both are important and suited to different situations. Determining your own status through games and learning how to change your status are goals of this workshop.

Every presentation is a challenge with much to be considered:

What are the goals of my presentation? What expectations, attitudes and emotions does my audience have regarding the topic to be presented? What are my resources?

Only after you answer these questions can you start realizing your presentation. With the help of feedback and video analysis, you can explore your own presentation style and, then, improve it.

Stories link facts with emotions and images, making information more vivid and memorable. Instead of processing isolated data, stories enable us to better remember connections and meanings. This so-called narrative structure not only helps listeners to store information, but also to anchor it and recall it more easily.

Storytelling in science involves transforming research projects and personal experiences into stories that touch people personally and create images in their minds. Concepts, research results and facts are particularly interesting when they have something to do with people’s lives. This ensures that the results of your own research are remembered by the audience in the long term.

In this workshop, different narrative forms and suspense building as well as the importance of emotions and sensory details will be discussed in order to then immerse yourself in the narrative of your own research. How do I generate attention and curiosity for my topic and how do I connect with my audience with the help of a story? Various exercises are used to present and reflect on the oral stories developed. Participants learn how to translate their research into exciting stories and thus increase the visibility and comprehensibility of their research activities.

You have been working intensively on your topic/your project and invest a lot of time and energy. This is precisely why you want your work results not only to be noticed, but also to reach your target groups – and have an impact.

Research from Stanford University shows that stories are remembered 22 times better than mere facts. Stories make complex issues accessible, give them meaning and significance and are also readily retold. Emotions and personal experiences in stories have the power to touch and inspire people – they not only complement facts, they bring them to life.

In this workshop, you will learn how stories are constructed in an exciting way and how you can use them in presentations and team meetings to reach your audience in a sustainable way.

Politicians often like to present themselves with facts, figures and data. As important and correct as “hard facts” are, they are often not message enough in times of overstimulation and information overload. This is where stories become important, because they arouse emotions, inner commitment, move and are remembered. Stories are crucial in political discourse and, as a result, storytelling has become an important medium of political communication.

In this workshop, you will learn how stories and narratives are used in politics, whether overtly or covertly. You will learn how stories are constructed and how you can package facts and figures into stories that touch people personally and create images in their minds that anchor your message. You will learn about different narrative forms and how you can use a personal story to generate attention and commitment to an issue.

Improvisation is a technique that can be learned. It is important and useful for innovation, creativity, collaboration and teamwork.

When you improvise, you must be in “the here and now” and, at the same time, develop common goals for the future. It is important to make offers and to accept others’ offers, to lead and to allow yourself to be led by others.

On stage, you have to be self-confident and contribute your own ideas while simultaneously connecting with your teammates and their ideas – challenges that facilitators also have to master.

Improvisation cultivates interpersonal skills; as teachers, trainers and facilitators, you are required to think on our feet, to rapidly make decisions and be in the moment. Practicing improvisation helps build all of these skills; plus, it is really fun!

Objectives

• Gain new ideas as a trainer for a lively, effective and sustainable process work with your groups
• Improve your own training and workshop design
• Learn how to quickly and easily engage your participants in experiential activities
• Enhance your ability to react spontaneously and with humor in unexpected and difficult situations
• Become more comfortable improvising as a facilitator

Improvisational theatre is a very fast and spontaneous way of playing theatre. The performers must work together; they have to make suggestions and accept other offers; they must lead and be led; and they have to take over responsibility in order to tell a collective story on stage. All of these skills are equally important tasks of leaders.

What is also essential for effective managers is to be aware of their own status behavior. Status is typically connected to a certain rank or position and the power that someone has in an organization or in society.

However, in our daily lives, we position ourselves permanently and, to some extent, independently of our position in a company or society (e.g., even a beggar can have a high status, sometimes). We can change our status using our body language, verbal language, and how we use space and time.

For leaders, it is vital to know their own status, recognize the status of others, and be able to change their status, in order to best suit the situation and help reach their goals.

When you improvise, you have to be in “the here and now,” instead of following a certain plan. Especially during a creative process, this is a key point, to be able to develop new and unexpected ideas as a team.

On the one hand, it is important to engage and to connect with your colleagues. On the other hand, you must trust your own impulses and introduce them your ideas with confidence.

So that in collaboration with your team mates a vision of the future, an idea for a new product or an unexpected solution can come to life.

We all work in and live with different teams and groups. Quite often, we experience difficulties and conflicts.

Solutions exist for dealing effectively with these difficulties in intensive, sustainable and exciting ways.

In the course of our lives, we have many very different experiences with groups; in some groups, we probably had a wonderful time and were very productive, while in other groups, we felt like we were in the wrong place and were wasting our time. However, most of us know very little about how groups really function and how we can influence the development of a group.

During this five-day long, intensive Group Dynamics Training workshop, you learn how to reflect on your own behavior in groups. You will immerse yourself in group phenomena like cooperation, conflicts, competition, emotions, formation of groups, trust and influence, and learn how to influence groups.

Teambuilding with Improvisational Theatre is an unconventional way of meeting your colleagues, to get to know them from different and new perspectives, and have a lot of fun together.

To be able to tell convincing stories in Improvisational Theatre, it is important to work together, intensively and effectively. The basic rules of Improvisational Theatre are the same as the basic fundamentals of every good teamwork project.

Virtual meetings are often exhausting and not very motivating. As a result, participants do a lot on the side and their attention drifts away – which does not exactly promote the quality of the meeting. Those who participate in an online meeting need to know why their presence is important and feel included in the meeting from the beginning – in other words, relevant.

In this workshop, you will explore concepts and learn methods to add creative excitement, participant engagement and liveliness to your virtual meetings. You will work on your own presence and impact as a host in the virtual space. You will also reflect on the use and intended impact of digital tools.

Trainer und Berater

Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Wien und an der Universidad de la Complutense, Madrid; mehrjährige Erfahrung als interner Personalleiter eines Finanzdienstleisters zuständig für Mittel- und Osteuropa; Trainer, Berater und Moderator seit 2000.

Schwerpunkte

Leadership-Programme und Leadership-Trainings; Teamentwicklungen; Facilitation und Beratung; besonderer Schwerpunkt beim Thema Leadership: Führen in hochkomplexen, internationalen Organisationen.

Sprachen

Deutsch, Englisch, Spanisch

Trainer und Berater

Studium der Angewandten Psychologie; betriebswirtschaftliche Weiterbildung: Department of Continuing Education, Harvard University; langjährige Managementerfahrung in der Schweiz und in Deutschland; selbstständiger Trainer und Berater für Einzelpersonen, Gruppen und Organisationen

Schwerpunkte

Trainer, Berater und Moderator in Profit- und Non-Profit-Unternehmen; Management & Leadership Development; Strategie, Design, Implementierung, Durchführung von innerbetrieblichen Ausbildungsprogrammen für Führungskräfte; Beratung, Moderation, Coaching, Trainings zum Thema interkulturelle Kompetenz; Mediation und Konfliktmanagement.

Sprachen

Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch

Trainer und Berater

Forschung und Training: Soziale Netzwerkanalyse, Innovationsmanagement, Improvisationsforschung, Teamkreativität, Präsentations- und Verhandlungstechnik

Schauspiel: Improvisationstheater

Sprachen

Deutsch, Englisch

Schwerpunkte

Kommunikation, Konflikte und Grundlagen der Zusammenarbeit

Team- und Führungskräfteentwicklung

Gruppendynamik

Selbstmanagement und Stressbewältigung

Sprachen

Deutsch