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Improving Collaboration - Communication That Gets the Message Across

The "Communication Lab" for Effective Communication

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This training is held in German.
Misunderstandings, unnecessary back-and-forth coordination, or difficult conversations—communication problems can significantly complicate collaboration in everyday work life. In this training, you’ll learn where and why communication often goes wrong and how to take targeted steps to address these issues, creating clarity and efficiency without losing sight of the human element. You’ll receive clear feedback on your impact, develop concrete strategies for your daily work, and try out new approaches in the safe environment of a “communication lab.” The goal is to shape your communication in a way that allows you to resolve issues more quickly, reduce coordination loops, and noticeably improve collaboration.

Contents

Collaboration and communication

  • The Impact of Communication.
  • Make collaboration easier.
  • Improve efficiency and coordination processes.

Understanding Communication and Making Concrete Improvements

  • Why communication often fails to achieve the desired effect.
  • Common misunderstandings in the workplace.
  • The Communication Barrier: Where exactly do communication breakdowns occur?
  • Practical tools for clear and effective conversations: active listening, asking targeted questions, and structured summarizing.

Understanding and leveraging differences in perception

  • Why we see things differently and how I deal with it.
  • Perception and Attention in Everyday Life (moonwalking bear).
  • Understanding different perspectives (“maps”).
  • The Iceberg Model in Practice: Behavior (visible), Feelings, Needs.
  • Transfer: What am I seeing, and what am I missing?
  • Introduction to Different Communication Styles (DISG).
  • Tailor your communication to your audience.

In the “Communication Lab” we examine our own situations

  • What's actually going on there?
  • Where does something get lost?
  • What specific changes can I make?

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You will learn to consciously adapt your communication style to the situation.
  • You will improve collaboration within the team and across departments.
  • You can avoid misunderstandings and friction.
  • You identify communication issues early on and resolve them effectively.
  • Even in challenging situations, you communicate clearly, in a solution-oriented manner, and with a friendly and engaging tone.
  • You can try out new things in the safe environment of a "communication lab."

Methods

trainer, group and individual work, and intensive practice sessions. Training that allows you to bring your own situations into the session. In the “Communication Lab,” we examine these situations step by step: analyzing your own behavior, providing clear feedback on the impact you make, and offering specific tips on how and what you can do differently during the training.

Recommended for

Professionals and managers who want to make their communication clearer, more efficient, and more personable.

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Questions about the seminar content

In challenging conversational situations, it’s often not enough to focus solely on the factual level. Visible behavior frequently masks underlying feelings, needs, or unspoken concerns. If you ignore this level, a conversation can quickly become more tense, defensive, or evasive. That’s exactly why this training course helps you understand communication in a more nuanced way using practical models. You’ll learn not to judge behavior too quickly, but to be more mindful of what’s really happening in the conversation. This way, even in challenging moments, you can stay clear-headed, show humanity, and still work collaboratively toward a solution.

There are many potential sources of interference between what you want to say and what the other person actually hears. Tone of voice, word choice, prior knowledge, personal expectations, and current mood all influence how a statement is understood. This is particularly relevant for specialists and managers, as their statements often impact decisions, collaboration, and motivation. In this training course, you’ll analyze why communication doesn’t always achieve the desired effect. Through feedback on your own impact, you’ll recognize the signals you’re sending and how they might be interpreted. This will make your communication more deliberate, clearer, and more effective.

Long coordination loops often arise when tasks, responsibilities, or next steps aren’t clearly defined. At the same time, asking too many follow-up questions can quickly come across as controlling. Through this training how to structure conversations, summarize results clearly, and articulate expectations. This way, you’ll provide more guidance rather than adding pressure. You’ll learn to communicate in a firm yet respectful manner. This will help you resolve issues more quickly without straining relationships.

In everyday work life, clarity and humanity are often mistakenly seen as opposites. Some people avoid making clear statements so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings. Others become very direct and, in doing so, lose sight of the importance of building relationships. This training program helps you combine both approaches. You’ll learn to tailor your statements to the situation, ask targeted questions, and summarize the conversation in a way that builds rapport. At the same time, you’ll develop a better sense of how your words come across to others. This will allow you to provide guidance without coming across as harsh and to show appreciation without being vague.

Your communication style directly influences whether others feel understood, ignored, motivated, or unsettled. Professionals and managers, in particular, communicate with a wide variety of people, such as team members, cross-functional colleagues, supervisors, or external partners. A style that works well with one person may cause irritation in another. Through this training about different communication styles and reflect on the impact you have. This will enable you to adapt your conversations more consciously to your conversation partner without having to pretend to be someone else. This improves collaboration because you’ll communicate more flexibly, clearly, and effectively.

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18.11.2026
Stuttgart
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