Ranking from last week’s quiz may not convince you but it‘s the result from more than 600,000 interviews:  A: Having own children = ② (even more so for men …) B: Making more money = ② (if you earn at least €2000 per month) C: Sleeping less than 6h = ③ (three hours per...

Sociologist Martin Schroeder analyzed more than 600,000 interviews in a rigorous fashion. Let’s get a bit closer by a little quiz - rank the following five points either 1 = „Makes very happy“, 2 =  „Not really important“,  3 = „Makes very unhappy“: A: Having own...

The decisive factor for a winning presentation is YOU: your body language, followed by your voice – the content only makes up 7%! What does that mean for you? Before your next presentation, deal less with the content, but remember a sense of achievement or happiness...

You know the picture: the last few minutes before a decisive presentation, many people spend trying to recap their pages. But what does your audience really appreciate? What percentage importance does it attach to the success factors „content, voice and body...

1. No test of the equipment for pleasant sound & picture impression (online check-in the day before?) 2. No personal eye contact, gestures, voice & upright posture 3. No clear plan, tasks, goals and online documentation (e.g. via Jamboord, Miro, Mural, Trello...

Quite some of you do miss their offices after being locked up at home ... - will shed some light next week on 5 key don’ts when it comes to video calls - stay healthy and confident ... 🙂

In the meantime we all do have quite some experiences with working at home and/or in the office - am interested in your views: 1: Working at home is great! 2: Miss my office! 3: Need the choice between both! Will get back to the results of this little survey next...

… in short: 100% resource and solution focus by questions such as … … 1. Appraisal interviews: “What progress have you made?“, “What are you proud of?“, “Who could help you further?“ … 2. Team members complains: “What was different when things worked?“, “ What else?“,...

We are all too familiar with these 4 situations and yes, we do have our proven recipes how to tackle them: You have to conduct an appraisal interview  One of your team members complains about another one You are not happy with somebody in your team  You would like to...

Confidence does not mean ignoring problems in the optimistic belief that they will resolve themselves.  It means recognizing and tackling crises, but never losing hope.  It is important not to compare ourselves with others, but to focus our attention on the positive...