How does creativity arise? How can it be promoted? How do you strengthen your curiosity? What makes people get creative, and how daily stress hinders creativity, you can find out in this article.
By Gesine Engelage-Meyer and Sonja Hanau Very few meetings are productive. And yet we spend a large part of our working time with them. Online meetings that have just been discontinued have exacerbated the phenomenon of "meeting marathons". Sonja Hanau, an expert in good meeting culture, explains the self-sustaining meeting cycle and suggests simple ways to finally break it. "I come [...]
By guest author Markus Fischer "Language creates awareness", "Words shape reality", "Terms can hurt" – according to the proponents of language hygiene. They plead for more esteem, respect and equality in society. That sounds reasonable and desirable. Why not just learn a few gender-neutral pronouns and forgo some terms? It's not that simple. The matter [...]
Are you familiar with this scenario? ... ... It's five minutes before your important presentation - and you're still busy moving the slides of your presentation back and forth? You will then start on time with a finished set of slides - but during your presentation you will become painfully aware of how sensible it would have been to [...]
Know your power! ... this is what my esteemed colleague Richard Gappmayer asks us to do in his new, very successful work! The title "You too are powerful - How to discover your creative power and assert your own interests" already signals the core message: Every person is powerful! We just have to become aware of our own power and also be prepared to [...]
The voice is a key stimulus in sales. However, their effect is usually criminally underestimated. The voice goes directly from the ear to the heart. She convinces by touching. She wins by arousing emotions. It sells by subtly growing approval and thus paving the way to valid agreements. Sales are alive and well [...]
Book recommendation Elisabeth Motsch / Jon Christoph Berndt Are you a brand? What, you don't know that? Then it's time to deal with it. I'm doing that right now. Reading the new book "Profile with Style – Personality as a Brand – Clothing as a Statement" by my colleagues Elisabeth Motsch and Jon Christoph Berndt encouraged me to do so. They [...]
We can twist and turn it any way we want: All purchasing decisions are based on it: emotion, emotion, emotion. Successful selling is always emotional selling. It is only the emotions that give a product, a service, a lecture or a sales presentation that certain something. As my esteemed colleague Lars Schäfer puts it so aptly: [...]
The most important attributes of a strong, confident voice are the resilience and life energy it carries. So how do we manage to maintain both constantly in our dynamic, demanding everyday lives? Especially with life energy, it's one of those things when the to-do list gets out of hand and one appointment chases the other. One thing is clear: The key [...]
Last Friday the time had come. At 1:20 p.m., the truck drove up. He delivered the first 300 copies of my new book "Voice Sells! – The Power of the Voice in Business". Anyone who has ever experienced such a book birth knows: Opening the box and holding the first copy in your hands [...]
