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Making calls with ease: more confidence and pleasure on the phone

Confident and relaxed communication on the phone - save yourself valuable time in your day-to-day work and enjoy picking up the phone

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This training is held in German.
Many professionals avoid the phone: we prefer to switch to emails, chats or video conferences - and feel insecure when it comes to calling. Yet the phone offers many advantages: quick clarification, direct contact and personal impact. In this workshop, you will learn how to make calls with confidence and pleasure, avoid misunderstandings and make targeted use of the phone's strengths in everyday life. With playful exercises, practical guidelines and real training on the phone , you will become a confident contact step by step.

Contents

Telephoning today: between an "old-fashioned" means of communication and underestimated potential

  • Why many people avoid the phone : psychological and practical reasons.
  • What the phone can do: communicate faster, more personally and more engagingly.
  • In which situations a call really makes our work easier.

Gain confidence with the handset

  • Strengthen your inner attitude: How your attitude affects the conversation.
  • Stay confident with structure: Conversation guidelines for everyday life.
  • Mastering typical situations: Calling back, coordinating appointments, clarifying queries or misunderstandings.
  • Reduce the fear of misunderstandings: actively ask questions, summarize and conclude clearly.

Using voice and language as tools

  • Voice and breathing exercises for a relaxed start to the conversation.
  • Make your smile audible: convey sympathy through your voice.
  • Use words consciously: from clear messages to helpful formulations.

Pure practice: practicing telephoning and having fun at the same time

  • Speed calling: short practice rounds in small groups.
  • Real Calls: practicing real telephone calls in everyday life (with reflection).
  • Buddy principle: mutual support for sustainable transfer.

Stay calm when things get difficult

  • Regulating short-term nervousness: Breathing and focus techniques.
  • Defuse potential conflicts on the phone at an early stage.

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 gain confidence and enjoy making phone calls.
  • You will recognize and learn how telephone calls make your work easier, shorten e-mail and make relationships more personal.
  • You actively resolve misunderstandings and can create more clarity and commitment.
  • You can deal with typical everyday situations such as callbacks, making appointments or making inquiries in a relaxed manner.
  • You will learn how to use your voice consciously to come across as friendly, confident and convincing.
  • You will receive tips suitable for everyday use, a personal phone and checklists that will help you to consciously shape your phone behavior even after the training and improve it in the long term.

Methods

Interactive inputs with many practical examples, voice and speech exercises, role plays & phone and personal guidelines to take away.

Recommended for

Specialists and managers and all employees who want to optimize their conversation skills on the phone , improve their confidence and have fun on the phone again.

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Questions about the seminar content

Many professionals, managers, and employees are familiar with the feeling of preferring e-mail send an e-mail rather than make a phone call. That’s exactly where this training . It helps you overcome this uncertainty step by step. You’ll learn how your inner attitude influences the conversation, how to ground yourself with simple breathing and focus techniques, and how a clear conversation guide provides confidence. As a result, you’ll approach phone calls in a more structured way and no longer have to rely solely on spontaneous reactions.

Coming across phone on phone has a lot to do with how you approach a conversation. If you know what you want to say, have a clear opening line, and use your voice effectively, you’ll automatically sound more confident. This training course helps you practice exactly that in typical conversation scenarios. You’ll get a feel for which words suit you, how to stay friendly without sounding unsure, and how to respond professionally even when a conversation doesn’t go quite as planned.

Talking on the phone feels more immediate and leaves less time to think. Many people find this very aspect to be stressful. In this training course, you’ll explore the psychological and practical reasons why people phone avoid the phone . At the same time, through exercises, you’ll discover that talking on the phone is a skill you can develop. Once you understand what’s holding you back, you can work on it consciously and become more comfortable on the phone.

Friendliness on phone from your demeanor, voice, breathing, and choice of words. In this training, you’ll practice how an audible smile, a clear voice, and careful word choice can change the way you come across. It’s not about playing a role, but about using your natural conversational style in a more professional way. This will help you come across as approachable, confident, and convincing—without having to put on a facade.

Lasting confidence comes from regularly putting what you’ve learned into practice. To help you do this, the training provides training tips, checklists, and a personalized guide. In addition, the buddy system helps you further reflect on your own phone habits. This allows you to gradually build routines, pick up the phone more often, and stop seeing phone calls as a source of stress—instead, view them as a helpful tool for quick, personal, and meaningful communication.

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09.09.2026
Munich
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Wednesday, 09.09.2026

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08.12.2026
Frankfurt a. M.
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19.02.2027
Hamburg
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