Success Through Effective Communication Skills

How to communicate more skillfully and convincingly

Training in English
This Training in English is held in English.
In order to be successful in business, it is important to know about communication styles and how they are influenced by culture and language. In this training you will learn how to navigate skillfully through difficult communication situations to achieve the desired result. You will be enabled to create a constructive, appreciative atmosphere and to optimize your communication by means of targeted reflection.

Content

Achieving your goals

  • Defining and understanding what effective communication is.
  • Why do we need effective communication?
  • Setting out what your communication goals are.
  • How behavior can be changed towards the object of communication.

Analyzing communication and communication styles

  • Patterns and characteristics of different communication styles.
  • Communication at work.
  • How to communicate under stress.

How do you determine other people's communication style?

  • Identifying the communication style of others.
  • What traits do they have when they communicate?
  • How knowledge of these characteristics can help you communicate more effectively.
  • What communication style do you use and how can you channel it?

How do people from other cultures communicate?

  • Categorization of people from different cultures and countries.
  • Do different countries and cultures display similar characteristics when communicating?
  • Use of this categorization to communicate more effectively.

Language aspects

  • Throughout the course particular attention will be made to the key terms and linguistic nuances used to communicate in English.

Online Learning Platform

Once you have registered, you will be able to access your online learning platform, including extra materials for consolidating what you have learned.

Your benefits

You will be able to

  • define and clarify your role and consequently use the communication strategies,
  • comprehensively recognize different communication styles,
  • develop and tailor your own communication style to achieve your goals,
  • foster new and more positive relationships between you, your team and others,
  • convey the value of communication for achieving positive and lasting results,
  • understand and use non-verbal forms of communication,
  • communicate confidently in intercultural settings,
  • use your learned strategies to communicate more effectively with e-mail, telephone or in meetings.

Instructor

Methods

As this is a course dedicated to communication, it will be a very interactive course with continuous role-play, practice-oriented and communicative exercises throughout the two days. Continuous feedback will be given throughout the course as well as trainer-input and the opportunity to self-reflect. This course requires a lot of input from the participants.

Recommended for

Anyone whose business success depends on effective communication and who wants to enhance their communication skills and techniques in order to communicate appropriately and confidently in international settings.

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Questions about the training

In challenging business situations, clarity rarely happens by chance. It comes from knowing what you want to achieve, choosing your words carefully, and recognizing how your message may be received by others. In this training, you’ll learn how to define your communication goals, structure your message more effectively, and adapt your behavior to the situation, so that your communication becomes more focused, confident, and results-oriented.

A flexible communication style does not mean pretending to be someone else. It means understanding how your natural way of communicating affects others and learning how to adapt it when the situation calls for a different approach. This is especially useful when working with international colleagues, clients, or partners who may interpret directness, hesitation, or emotional tone differently. The training you analyze your own communication patterns, recognize the styles of others, and develop a more conscious way of communicating that remains authentic while becoming more effective.

Under pressure, communication often becomes faster, more direct, or less precise. People may interrupt, withdraw, defend their position strongly, or lose sight of the actual goal of the conversation. Understanding your own stress patterns helps you stay more composed and respond more constructively. This training you training practical tools to reflect on your communication under stress, manage difficult situations more skillfully, and keep conversations professional—even when time pressure, conflict, or uncertainty are involved.

Your words are only one part of the message. Your tone of voice, facial expressions, posture, eye contact, and pauses can strongly influence whether you come across as confident, open, impatient, or unsure. In meetings, negotiations, or feedback conversations, nonverbal cues can either build trust or create distance. This training you become more aware of these cues and use them more intentionally, so that your verbal and nonverbal communication reinforce each other and create a more constructive atmosphere.

Difficult conversations become easier to manage when you understand both the content of the discussion and the communication dynamics behind it. Instead of reacting only to what is said, you learn to notice tone, style, stress signals, and cultural influences. This helps you respond more thoughtfully and steer the conversation toward a productive outcome. Through interactive exercises, role-playing, feedback, and self-reflection, the training you the opportunity to practice these skills in a realistic setting and apply them directly to your everyday professional communication.

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5659
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Oliver Sauerstein
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Toshiba Europe GmbH, Neuss
Competent trainer, new insights of communication.

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29.06.2026
Düsseldorf
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Monday, 29.06.2026

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Tuesday, 30.06.2026

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08.10.2026
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Hamburg
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Cologne
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13.05.2027
Berlin
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14.06.2027
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Transfer coaching bookable
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