We all know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And also that there are universal laws behind our pleasure. How can you use these laws of rhetoric to your advantage when speaking and presenting? In this blog post, we'll look at 9 ways you can apply the laws of nature to your speeches and presentations.
Salzburg during the festival – an exhibition is opening in the museum, a gallery owner invites you right next door, a new restaurant is being inaugurated there, a jeweller is organising a cocktail, a wine tasting is taking place there, an author is presenting his book. One social event chases the other and the visitors chase after it, daily, hourly. Multiple changes of clothes during the day with [...]
Over a "virtual coffee", I spoke with the prominent media trainer Markus Sturm about the power of the voice in videos and online meetings, about expanded boundaries of shame and speaking pitfalls in ZoomCalls. A virtual coffee - with a small dash of added value. Markus Sturm: Arno Fischbacher is with us today for a virtual coffee. He is a speaker, business voice coach. [...]
The fact that some people like to talk too much and for a long time can be quite annoying (not only on holidays). Having your say is not easy at all. In my current video tip, I have therefore taken up the question of a participant about what to do if people do not let you speak: "How do I elegantly interrupt when someone simply [...]
It was the most embarrassing moment of my early coaching career. Even during the morning hours of the seminar, my voice had sounded scratchy. Whenever I tried to speak loudly, the sound stopped for a moment. I had confidently tried to cover it up. But after the lunch break it was clear: I cannot finish this seminar. The voice coach is [...]
"What did you say?" - many people are currently hearing this sentence again and again when they talk with the mouth-nose mask. The much-discussed Covid-19 protection will probably accompany us in everyday life for a long time to come, whether we like it or not. Speech intelligibility in particular often suffers from this unusual and sometimes often irritating accessory. What you [...]
It was 1977, as far as I remember, when Reinhard Mey entered the stage in the Salzburg Mozarteum, which was sold out to the last seat. The lights in the auditorium were already extinguished, all eyes in tense silence on the singer, who was just picking up his guitar. The contrast of the strong spotlight cone made the background appear almost black. [...]
Do you talk for more than three hours on some days? If you've nodded inwardly, then I say: "Welcome to the club!" Because then you clearly belong to the "heavy voice users", i.e. to the top voice athletes. The question is: What do you do to ensure that your voice remains fit and efficient in action? For a [...]
A plea for intelligent vocal branding It flashes on my screen, a new e-mail has arrived. Since I don't know the sender, I skim the subject line and take a quick look at the first paragraph. "Easier to gain promising business contacts on LinkedIn," it says. Interesting, I think – and curiously click the link. The website [...]
Practical tips for perfect communication from the home office "I didn't say that! What are you accusing me of!" - As if through a magnifying glass, small discrepancies suddenly emerge in exceptional situations in the home office and amaze us with dramatic effects. But where exactly are these proverbial pitfalls of the property, especially when it comes to phone calls and video calls [...]
