Mat­thias Kirbs‘ World of Voice. Speak Cle­arly and reach out to hearts

Stimm­wel­ten offers a whole range of cour­ses – Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons, Job Ori­en­ted and Ger­man and Eng­lish Skills – desi­gned to serve the needs of dif­fe­rent seg­ments of people :

• Per­so­na­lity Development
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Skills
• Basics of Effec­tive Communications
• Send Clear and Con­sis­tent Messages
• Actively Seek to Understand

Over­view of the con­tents of the pro­po­sed seminars

Voice Trai­ning 

Your voice is the most powerful expres­sion of your com­mu­ni­ca­tion. With the help of these spe­ci­fic exer­ci­ses you will learn to use the pitch, the into­na­tion and the power of your voice in such a man­ner as to leave a las­ting impres­sion on your lis­ten­ers. You will also learn to speak cle­arly and reach out to hearts…

• More: » Voice training

Lea­der­ship trai­ning – lea­ding with personality

A spe­cial trai­ning pro­gramme for exe­cu­ti­ves in the pro­cess of change or cri­sis situa­tions, as well as bud­ding exe­cu­ti­ves who want to increase their ability to com­mu­ni­cate and lead to new heights….

• More: » Lea­der­ship training

Pre­sen­ta­tion Training

The fac­tors that have a decisive influence on your power of per­sua­sion are: your voice, your appearance and your com­pe­tence. In pre­sen­ta­tion trai­ning you will learn to deal con­fi­dently with the new media (I‑Pad pre­sen­ta­tion, Lap­top Mac/Win) as well as to con­vey meaningful con­tent – the very soul of a suc­cessful pre­sen­ta­tion. A trai­ning with video sup­port is also pos­si­ble within this trai­ning. You will receive carefully tar­ge­ted video-tech­ni­ques and recor­dings, which will enable you to see yours­elf at your best as well as at your wea­ker aspects. After under­go­ing this trai­ning your daily work-sche­dule will be much more effec­tive than ever….

• More: » Pre­sen­ta­tion training

Balance coa­ching 

In this series of indi­vi­dual semi­nars on work-life-balance you will learn to mas­ter cer­tain tech­ni­ques of Qigong and modern medi­ta­tive tech­ni­ques of rela­xa­tion. You will learn to over­come stressful situa­tions and to build up the neces­sary energy to cope with the chal­lenges thrown up by your own pro­fes­sio­nal and per­so­nal live. In addi­tion you will become aware of your limits of strain and the ext­ent which you can take.

• More: » Balance coaching 

Trai­ning on Skype

Train your audi­ble visi­ting card while being at any place in the world. We offer indi­vi­dual modu­les as voice trai­ning, dialect reduc­tion, eit­her fully or partly over Skype. Mixed forms are also pos­si­ble, for ins­tance: after an intro­duc­tion in Ham­burg we will con­ti­nue fur­ther on Skype.

• More: » Trai­ning on Skype

Stimm­wel­ten offers a whole range of cour­ses – Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons, Job Ori­en­ted and Ger­man and Eng­lish Skills – desi­gned to serve the needs of dif­fe­rent seg­ments of people :

Per­so­na­lity Development

Based on our expe­ri­ence in the indus­try and out­side of it, dif­fe­rent peo­ple have dif­fe­rent opi­ni­ons about Per­so­na­lity. While our intent is not to argue about vali­dity of each indi­vi­du­als‘ opi­nion, our endea­vour is to touch upon its value for career growth and life enrich­ment. The areas of impro­ve­ment, as we deal with this course are:

• Posi­tive Out­look to face challenges
• Career Enrich­ment
• Per­so­nal Happiness

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Skills

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Skills is desi­gned to improve cus­to­mer satis­fac­tion, increase sales reve­nues, raise coll­ec­tion rates and help to chall­enge and retain your best peo­ple. Effec­tive Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is one of the cor­ner­sto­nes of excep­tio­nal cus­to­mer service.

You will learn how to deve­lop effec­tive lis­tening skills and how to pre­vent misun­derstan­dings through cla­ri­fy­ing ques­ti­ons and use of the feed­back loop.

The areas of impro­ve­ment, with this course are:

• Effec­tive lis­tening skills
• Right ques­tio­ning techniques
• Posi­tive attitude
• Clear Thin­king
• Peo­ple Orientation

Basics of Effec­tive Communications

You will learn how to create an effec­tive mes­sage and how to bet­ter under­stand the mes­sa­ges being sent to you. You will learn how to share fee­lings and ideas through your mes­sage and how to use feedback.

This module will show you how to reco­gnize dis­rup­tive fac­tors and how your per­cep­ti­ons fil­ter your under­stan­ding. You will learn to iden­tify the impact of beliefs and how a situa­tion may distort mes­sa­ges. You learn to be aware of lan­guage and non­ver­bal skills.

Send Clear and Con­sis­tent Messages

This module will teach you to use words that are fami­liar to the recei­ver, words that are spe­ci­fic and appro­priate, and to avoid jar­gon. You will learn how to use sup­port­ive non-ver­bal cues to sup­port your mes​sage​.You will learn to take diver­sity into con­side­ra­tion, reco­gni­zing cul­tu­ral fac­tors and gen­der differences.

Actively Seek to Understand

This module will teach you how to reco­gnize per­cep­tual influen­ces. You will learn how to deve­lop effec­tive lis­tening skills and how to pre­vent misun­derstan­dings through cla­ri­fy­ing ques­ti­ons and use of the feed­back loop.

Each of these ele­ments has three high points

• Trans­fer of knowledge.
• Trai­ning to achieve excellence.
• Uti­liza­tion of what has been learnt ear­lier in pro­fes­sio­nal practice.

Should you have any fur­ther ques­ti­ons on these and more, please feel free to get back to me. I gua­ran­tee you com­plete satis­fac­tion with the lec­tures on offer and wish you an exci­ting and suc­cessful expe­ri­ence with these seminars!

Over­view of the con­tents of the pro­po­sed seminars:

Voice trai­ning

Your voice is the most powerful expres­sion of your com­mu­ni­ca­tion. With the help of these spe­ci­fic exer­ci­ses you will learn to use the pitch, the into­na­tion and the power of your voice in such a man­ner as to leave a las­ting impres­sion on your lis­ten­ers. You will also learn to speak cle­arly and reach out to hearts…

• » Voice training

Lea­der­ship trai­ning – lea­ding with personality

A spe­cial trai­ning pro­gramme for exe­cu­ti­ves in the pro­cess of change or cri­sis situa­tions, as well as bud­ding exe­cu­ti­ves who want to increase their ability to com­mu­ni­cate and lead to new heights….

• » Trai­ning offer “lea­ding with personality”

Pre­sen­ta­tion training

The fac­tors that have a decisive influence on your power of per­sua­sion are: your voice, your appearance and your com­pe­tence. In pre­sen­ta­tion trai­ning you will learn to deal con­fi­dently with the new media (I‑Pad pre­sen­ta­tion, Lap­top Mac/Win) as well as to con­vey meaningful con­tent – the very soul of a suc­cessful presentation.

A trai­ning with video sup­port is also pos­si­ble within this trai­ning. You will receive carefully tar­ge­ted video-tech­ni­ques and recor­dings, which will enable you to see yours­elf at your best as well as at your wea­ker aspects. After under­go­ing this trai­ning your daily work-sche­dule will be much more effec­tive than ever….

• » Pre­sen­ta­tion training

Balance coa­ching

In this series of indi­vi­dual semi­nars on work-life-balance you will learn to mas­ter cer­tain tech­ni­ques of Qigong and modern medi­ta­tive tech­ni­ques of rela­xa­tion. You will learn to over­come stressful situa­tions and to build up the neces­sary energy to cope with the chal­lenges thrown up by your own pro­fes­sio­nal and per­so­nal live. In addi­tion you will become aware of your limits of strain and the ext­ent which you can take.

• » Balance Coaching

Trai­ning on Skype

Train your audi­ble visi­ting card while being at any place in the world. Tele­phone call via inter­net over Skype and a web-camera are all that you need: you can con­nect to your coach any time and any­where vir­tually wit­hout was­ting time or expen­ses for tra­vel­ling. As a new ser­vice we offer this new, effec­tive and homely com­for­ta­ble way of training.