To introduce yourself memorably without relying on your job title, you have to break the script and catch your counterpart off guard. Pull him or her in by dumping the usual structure and going away from “what you do” to “who you are, how you think, and what drives you." Trust me, it will work and it will actually be fun as well!

Use these 3 simple adjustments to shift your language and to communicate more clearly step-by-step: Instead of truth, shift to perception. Instead of intentions, shift to impact. Instead of blame, shift to contribution.

A change of perspective can be golden as there are at least 3 versions to every story: mine, yours and what actually happened. Most people spend most of their lives defending their version. Don't be that guy. Change your point of view and learn how to handle a challenging situation better than ever before.

The exercise "building & developing connections" guides you through 8 steps to support you in improving your collaboration with people you might find difficult. You have to look into the mirror. Are you ready for it?

Emotional Intelligence: the ability to recognize, understand and manage our own emotions as well as recognize, understand and influence emotions of others. Connection and trust are built, when we feel heard and understood, that's what we need emotional intelligence for.

You're living in challenging times, a lot is going on and changing at the moment. Just staying afloat sometimes feels challenging already. Resilience can help, but what is it exactly?

In this exercise, you’ll start by evaluating yourself. You’ll gain insight into your own perceptions of your personality and traits. Next, you’ll explore how others perceive you through their perspectives. Finally, you’ll have the opportunity to compare and discover where your own perceptions align with or differ from those of others.

At Hotel zum Hirschen, we ran a workshop called "Inside Out Leadership - Lead yourself first, then others" to expand management's understanding of themselves, their leadership style and create a shared set of rules of engagement for working and leading together by taking ownership.

Fear is a signal. With the “Above / Below the Line” framework, you can recognize fear as a signal and regain control!

Our fears are sometimes justified, but we suffer way more in imagination than in reality. Don’t let your fears stop you from chasing your dreams! Fear Setting is similar to goal setting. Instead of defining and working on your goals, you get to know and learn to manage your fears.

Growth is good. Clarity is better. At Schlosser Dachbau, we’ve reimagined communication, collaboration, and processes together—with the entire team, from the CEO to the apprentices. 4 groups. 2 days each. Clear results. And we’ve proven that change in the skilled trades works when we tackle it together.

When is coaching useful? You don't have to be in crisis to seek support. Often, the feelin that something is not right anymore is enough. I work with my clients on topics such as personal development, communication & relationships and crisis intervention.

Trust is earned drop by drop, but lost like a kicked-over bucket. It's not often that one sentence forms such a clear picture in your head. Every exchange or conversation you have either fosters trust or erodes it. Protect your credibility.

Quitting can be seen as accepting failure or defeat. Perseverance and resilience are great mindsets for overcoming challenges. But sometimes, determination can trap us into losing positions instead of reassessing our situation and changing course.

Use a yearly mind map, choose a few areas of your life and set goals for each for the upcoming year!

Spend this Christmas with your family and try to really be present and listen. Here are three tips that help you with listening:

When you want to learn anything, you have to cover the basics first. To advance, you need to do the basics well. This is the same in any area or skill, even in leadership. Here are 4 leadership basics from 2 retired Navy SEAL officers.

With labeling you can create the conditions for more understanding, even in disagreement. You spot an emotion and state it out loud but neutral, i.e. labeling it, via saying "it seems like..." or "it sounds like..." Read on to find out more.

Your team needs three things to work: know each other, trust each other, and support each other. With Step-by-Step, I deliver tailor-made workshops that develop your team to the next level. Find out more here:

What I say is not what you hear and probably not at all what you understood. Communication usually needs two people, a sender and a receiver. The sender transmits a message. The receiver receives it. The problem lies in the difference between what the sender intends to say, says, and what the receiver hears and understands in the end.