Small Talk – Great Results: 14 Tips for Successful Break Conversations

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 [...]

2022-10-02T17:45:18+02:00 26. August 2021 | Voice and rhetoric , Voice and Sales | 0 Comments

Can you learn small talk? Of course – with these three steps.

Ing. Metzinger* spontaneously picked up the phone and arranged his first coaching appointment after returning from his trip to the corporate headquarters in Amsterdam. "Learning and applying small talk" was his concern. As technical manager of production in Austria, he had routinely reported on the current figures in the obligatory management meeting. When it comes to his [...]

2025-02-17T20:17:36+01:00 23. October 2019| Small talk , Voice and rhetoric | 2 Comments

Trapped in speechlessness

We are looking for participants (coachees) for a WDR documentary in the series Menschen hautnah. It hurts: Not knowing what to say. No topic comes to mind. There is nothing you would like better than to talk to others, but there is this insurmountable hurdle. It is not only with strangers that people prefer to remain silent. You avoid your work colleagues, [...]

2021-01-15T19:48:28+01:00 September 23, 2011 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
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