Magazine article awarded I'm sitting in the elegant restaurant of the Hotel Grand Tirolia. The opening evening of the annual conference of Club 55, the European Community of Experts in Marketing and Sales, reaches its first highlight. The author of the best article in the Club Magazine Marketing & Sales Review will be announced soon. Every year, this magazine highlights essential aspects from [...]
Almost unbelievable 10 years ago, my colleague Ingrid Amon and I launched the stimme.at network. Today, Stimme.at is the largest cross-methodological and independent platform on the subject of voice and speech technology in Europe. Currently, 70 voice experts from Austria, Germany and Switzerland are involved under this common roof. Our declared goal was [...]
Strangely gurgling sounds come from a seminar room. It sounds as if someone is trying to say something under threat to his life. However, the articulation does not really seem to succeed. After a few minutes of concentrated listening, the secret listener succeeds in recognizing word fragments. "Thank you, that's enough, take the cork out of your mouth now," a [...]
Do you feel the same way: "When several people are sitting at a table in a meeting, I very often don't even get to speak. Why can't I get through vocally?" Situations like these are not an isolated case: A meeting takes place, the whole team sits at the oval table, a discussion arises – possibly animated and [...]
For all those who want to (or have to) sing "Silent Night" under the Christmas tree at Christmas, I'm posting a few immediately effective vocal exercises from my audiobook today. ... And if you forgot how the song works, here is a suitable video link. (Thanks Elisabeth Lohninger for the hint!)
"The Power of the Voice": Five Steps to More Vocal Awareness. Keynote speech for the "Lecturers' Day" of the Federal Ministry of Finance (Vienna). The audience: internal trainers and lecturers from the Ministry of Finance and the Austrian tax offices.
"I switch off when I hear this voice!" Do you know this? Curious, you have clicked on a video on a website that promises you instructions for use or an explanation of a product. The shot is well done, the first pictures promise an entertaining two minutes. But then ... - the voice! You can clearly hear that this is "home-made", someone [...]
Her personal summary from the seminar week on La Gomera has been summarized by the Salzburg scene photographer Doris Wild in her video blog:
It is my personal highlight of the year in the seminar calendar, and not only because of the shimmering black lava sand on the Atlantic beach and the proverbial sunny Gomeran climate. It touches and inspires me every time to experience the developments of my participants! What becomes visible and audible between the first and sixth day of the seminar in terms of major changes, even "quantum leaps" in appearance and voice awareness, [...]
