Themen

  • Meetings: A Regional Sales Conference, Training Needs, Moving The Head Office,Taking On New Sales Staff, Customer Visit
  • Corporate Crime: Price Fixing, Insider Trading, Tax Evasion, Bribery, Copyright Infringement
  • Consumer Protection: Regulatory Agencies, Consumer Protection Laws, Product Warnings, Whistle Blower Laws, Recalling a Product, Lending Laws
  • „Pension Time-Bomb“ & Can You Afford To Retire?
  • Talking About Money
  • New Services & Creating an Own Communication Style („Supportive Understatement“)
  • Features of a Good Commercial
  • Being a World-Class Player
  • Negotiating & Confirming the Conditions
  • Managing Change: Getting Informed, Understanding, Reflecting, Acting
  • Wirtschaftsdeutsch: Textbausteine für eine Anfrage
  • Bussiness Issues: Setting Up a Company
  • Business Issues: Planning Ahead, Chain Stores & Their Future
  • Business Issues: Individualism, Freedom, Internal Focus
  • Team Building: Teams vs. Individuals
  • Politics & Current Political Issues
  • Training Section: Empowerment
  • Business & General Issues: Electric Cars, The Effects of Medical & Scientific Progress
  • Business & General Issues: Physical Appearance
  • Business Issues: Delivering High Quality Customer Service
  • Business Issues: Inventions
  • Economy, British Monarchy & Its Future
  • Business Issues: Fake News, Success – Failure, Social Networking
  • Business & General Issues: Customs & Traditions, Rich World & Poor World
  • Case Study: Supply Chain Disruption
  • Creativity Exercises: Transferring Motifs into Business Issues
  • Case Studies: Recall Crisis Management, Dealing with Late Paying Clients
  • Decline of the Western World?
  • Business & General Issues: Business Identity & Historical Awareness
  • Business Issues: Taking Care of Brands
  • Case Studies: Overreaching Products, Sufferring Sales; Maintaining Consistently Good Employees
  • Preparing a Promotional Campaign
  • Brands & Advertising
  • Case Studies: Employee Engagement in Hard Times, Social Media Serves up Creme Brulle
  • Language Skills: Planning Reports & Proposals
  • Exam Preparation (University & Business Exams)
  • Case Studies: Triumph in Niche Exports, Background Checks for Job Candidates
  • Language Skills: Grammar Workshop (Talking About Large & Small Differences)
  • Language Skills: Linking Ideas in Short Emails
  • Training Section: Peter Drucker
  • Language Skills: Grammar Workshop (The Passive)
  • Case Studies: Market Expansion Through Partnership, Tesco´s International Expansion
  • Complexity and a New Lifestyle
  • Language Skills: Planning Letters and Emails
  • Business Issues: The Gizmo Game
  • Business Issues: Holding Meetings
  • Case Studies: Tylenol´s 1982 Scandal, David vs. Goliath: Hangers Cleaners vs. P&G
  • „Use Purpose To Transform Your Workplace“ (Harvard)
  • Language Skills: Exam Preparation (Cambridge Certificate)
  • Case Studies: Retiring Employees, Lost Knowledge; Strategic Ad Spending
  • Enron: Make Your Values Mean Something (Harvard Business Review)
  • Business Issues: Tangible vs Intangible Assets
  • Business Documents: Reports
  • Training Section: Legacy
  • Case Studies: Small Customers, Big Profits; Succession Planning
  • Language Skills: Business English Idioms
  • Business Tradition
  • Professional Advertising: A Customer Care Training Course
  • Fairgrounds & Business (A Creative Equasion)
  • Case Study: A Starbucks on Every Corner, Starbucks Creative Expression & Philosophy
  • Business Issues: An Expat Assignment
  • Language Skills: Future Forms
  • Case Studies: Workplace Drug Abuse; Malden Mills
  • Business Issues: Exam Preparation (Skill development: Abstracting)
  • Business Issues: Hierarchies & Upward Appraisal
  • Business Issues: Converting Customer´s Satisfaction into Loyalty
  • Training Section: Harvard & Luxury Branding Research
  • Language Skills: Gerund & Infinitive
  • Language Skills: Written Communication, Levels of Formality & Paragraphing
  • Language Skills: Phrasal Verbs
  • Quality Control: „To Smash or not to Smash“ (Company Heier)
  • Language Skills: Textual Work
  • Business Correspondence: Memo, Email, Note, Notice
  • Language Skills: Relative Clauses
  • Business Issues: Staff Retention, Staff Turnover & Loyalty Clause
  • Language Skills: Punctuation & Spelling
  • Business Issues: Handling Easy & Difficult Customers
  • Business Issues: Absenteeism, Age Structure, Wining & Dining, Assertiveness, Nepotism, Losing a Bonus
  • Business Issues: Managing Staff
  • Business Issues: Strategy Meetings & Improving Business
  • Business Issues: Link between Business Culture, Employee Loyalty, Customer Loyalty & Revenue Growth
  • Business Issues: References & Loyalty
  • Business Issues: Human Potential & Happy Workforce
  • Language Skills: Skimming
  • Language Skills: Cohesive Features
  • Business Issues: Success-Failure
  • Business Issues: Fake News
  • Business Issues: Brand Builders
  • Business Issues: Corporate Trainings & the Unique Key for Perfect Teams, Time- & Stress Management, Strategy & Organisation
  • Business Issues: Large & Small Companies
  • Business Issues: How to Manage 350 Companies (Richard Branson)
  • Business Issues: Education Across Cultures (Western Civilisation vs Africa)
  • Business Issues: Community Work
  • Business Issues: Social Club
  • Business Issues: Comfort Zone & Moving Beyond
  • Business Issues: Team Player vs Individualist
  • Business Issues: Bossy Coworker
  • Business Issues: Website Redesign
  • Business Issues: Flexitime System
  • Business Issues: Tupperware and „Three Ps Marketing Strategy“: Product, Party Plan, People
  • Business Issues: Customer Care Courses
  • Business Issues: Japanese Visitors
  • Human Resources: Tasks
  • Nucor & Company Culture
  • Career: Changing Direction & Pursuing New Opportunities
  • Language Skills: Text Literacy
  • Inflation vs Deflation
  • Transferable Skills 2 (Describing Art: Attention to Detail, Finding Meaningful Correlations, Associations & Tapping into Knowledge Resources)
  • Transferable Skills 1 (Creativity, People Skills, Adaptability, Leadership, Time Management) & Self-Awareness
  • Language Skills: Writing Tasks
  • Language Skills: Talking About the Future
  • Training Incentives
  • Benchmark Studies, Patents & Licences
  • ISO 9000 & Public Relations Activities
  • Business Issues: Growing Money, How to Invest Best & Buying a Property
  • Intercultural Competence & a Global Business Career
  • Business Issues: Getting Ahead
  • Being Autonomous & Owning the Job
  • Peter Drucker & Personal Development
  • Language Learning, the Media & Micromarketing
  • Training & Promotion
  • Getting to the Top
  • Language Skills: Expressing Causes
  • Safety Committee & Cost Reduction Measures
  • Literature (Goethe & Shakespeare)
  • Success: Leader vs. Manager & Being „Morally Clean“
  • Management Training (Personal Development, Motivation, Change Management, Team Building, Presentation Skills, Customer Relations)
  • Future Shopping Infrastructure
  • Online Business (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Linked In, Xing)
  • Social Responsibility & High Standards (Working Conditions, Employees, Products & Services, Customers, Community, Expenditures & Investments, Ethics & Honesty)
  • „Delayering Process“ & Empowering People, Fostering Team-Work, Boosting Efficiency, Implementing Cost Reduction, Enhancing Communication Flow
  • Training Section: Exponential Leadership
  • Customer Care: „Turning Complaints to Your Advantage“
  • Customer Care: „Seeing Things from the Customer´s Point of View“
  • Business: Ethics
  • MITFORDS VARIETIES & Reasons for a Complaint
  • Improving Communication with Customers
  • SENDIT & Looking for a Logistics Partner
  • Business Psychology & Tasks of Business Psychologists
  • Language Skills: Text Comprehension (Ideas Extraction)
  • Business: Customer Care Training, Personal Development & Maslow´s Pyramid
  • Business: Staff Retention
  • Business: Outsourcing: Dangers, Benefits, Costs
  • Training Section: Vision, Mission, Values, Principles, Purpose (Harvard)
  • Business: Quality & Quality Employee vs. Quality Employer
  • Business: Quality & Improving Quality Customer Experience
  • Business: Goal Achievement & Strategies ( Machiavelli: „The goal justifies the means“ ?)
  • Business: Multicultural Project & Enhancing International Relationships
  • Business: Quality Employees & Self-education
  • Business: Converting Customer Satisfaction into Loyalty
  • Business: „Mystery Shopper System“ – Tesco & Building Customer Loyalty
  • Business: Starting a Newsletter
  • Business: Correlation of Power, Economy & Politics
  • Business: Multi-Level Marketing Businesses
  • Business: Business Models
  • Business: Relationship Marketing (Ladder of Customer Loyalty)
  • Business: Company Facilities
  • Business: Workplace Trends
  • Business: Ethical Sponsorship (Rolex and Other Toys)
  • Business: Politics, Power, Economy & Olympics (Skill development: Holistic Thinking)
  • Business: IT & Virtual Reality (II) – M.Zuckerberg and Metaverse
  • Business: Loss of Custom
  • Business: Delegation
  • Business: Autocratic Leadership
  • Business: External Influencers & Their Characteristics
  • Business: Creativity & Pressure
  • Business: IT & Virtual Reality (1)
  • Business: GAGP Group Results
  • Business: Intercultural Training (Multinationals)
  • Business: Money Matters (Royalty Fee)
  • Business: Education & Success
  • Business: Sponsorship & Charitable Contributions
  • Training Section: Purpose of Business & Starting an Own Company
  • Structures & Transformative Exercises
  • Corporate Items, Corporate Toys
  • Creativity in Business
  • Converting Artistic Ideas into Business
  • Preparing an International Assignment: South Africa, Russia, Spain, Morocco
  • Human Resources Department: Recruitment, Payroll, Staff Management, Training
  • Tolerance & Looking for the Key (Skill development: Self-Improvement)
  • Logo as a Code: Perceiving Hidden Information (Skill development: Awareness)
  • A New Product: Brainstorming on a Name
  • Finance & Investing: Financial Literacy, Investing in the Stock Market, Growing Money, Risk Taking, Cryptocurrencies
  • Creating Management Tools (Skill development: Determining Priorities, Focusing, Task Assignment, Supportive Communication, Growth Opportunities)
  • Creating Management Tools (Skill development: Human Element in Management & Avoiding Coffee Bar Atmosphere)
  • Sabbatical Year (Skill development: Conditionals, Linkers, Prepositions)
  • Large & Small Companies: Pros & Cons
  • Sales: Right Personality, Expert Knowledge, Sales Techniques
  • A Meeting at a Medical Equipment Company (Skill development: Making Significant Savings)
  • Business Models: Franchises, Mergers, Acquisitions (Skill development: German Social Concept)
  • Leaders & Role Models: Trigema Boss (Skill development: „Old School“ Leadership)
  • Downsizing, Streamlining & Rationalising
  • Positive Discrimination Policy (Skill development: Being Social)
  • High Performance Sports: Freestyle Tricking & Power Tumbling (Skill development: Life-Work Balance)
  • Nonverbal Communication ( Skill development: Scanning a Text)
  • A Survey of Meetings (Skill development: Using Adverbs of Frequency)
  • SingularityU Benelux Executive Program & Exponential Leaders (Skill development: How to Become an Exponential Leader – Advising Management Board)
  • SingularityU Benelux Executive Program & Exponential Leaders (Skill development: How to Create an Exponential Business)
  • SingularityU Benelux Executive Program & Guiding Future Leaders Towards Creating a Lasting Impact (Skill development : Running a Seminar)
  • Ecology & Becoming Greener (Skill development: Making Predictions)
  • Future Working Methods (Skill development: Optimisation)
  • Migrations (Skill development: Handling the Problem of Inequality)
  • Company Spirit (Skill development: „People First“ & Education, Achievement, Growth)
  • Motivation (Skill development: Finding Individual Motivators)
  • Becoming Climate Neutral (Skill development: Business Transformation Processes)
  • „Cause & Effect“ Linguistic Tools (Skill development: Teaching Business Wisdom)
  • Burnout Syndrome & „Cast Away“ (Skill development: Learning How to Avoid Burnout)
  • Marketing (Skill development: Guerrilla Marketing & Releasing the Trapped Value in the „Hidden Assets“)
  • Selecting the Right People for Foreign Posts & Living in a Bubble
  • Political and Business Crisis Management (Skill development: Handling a Crisis)
  • Women and High Positions (Skill development: Combining Family & Career in Modern Times)
  • Business Topics: Social Media and the Internet (Skill development: Using the Social Media & the Internet Differently)
  • Working Across Cultures: China & Europe (Skill development: Differentiating between Christianity & Confucius)
  • Business Issues: Brands 3 (Skill development: Understanding a „Concept Brand“)
  • Business Issues: Brands 2 (Skill development: Lecturing about Brands – Brands´ Intrinsic Meaning, Implication of Feelings, Brand Authenticity, Brand Protection)
  • Business Issues: Brands 1 (Skill development: Brand Creation Process & Marketing Strategies)
  • Business Issues: World Event Management (Skill development: Incentivising Employees)
  • Business Issues: Air Travel & Lufthansa (Skill development: Representing the Country of Origin)
  • Business Issues: Making the Most of Business Conferences (Skill development: Prioritising)
  • Business Issues: Promotional Films (Skill development: Creativity)
  • Business Issues: Dress Code (Skill development: Recognising Manipulation Techniques)
  • Business Issues: Strategy (Skill development: Making the First Strategic Step)
  • Success and One Step at a Time (Skill development: Understanding Success)
  • Social Media and Customers (Skill development: Using Collocations)
  • Global Career (Skill development: Deciding to Take a Foreign Post)
  • Business Issues: Money (Skill development: Big Budget Management)
  • Reputation and Revenues (Skill development: Creating Reputation Policy)
  • Globalisation and Digitalisation, Proposal Management, Retail Problems, Home Office, Fast Fashion Online Shop (Skill development: Creating Case Studies, Identifying Problems, Brainstorming Solutions)
  • Social Media & Business, Influencers & Followers (Skill development: Understanding Quality Relationships)
  • Business Across Cultures (Skill development: Talking about Business Cultures)
  • Business Issues: International Marketing (Skill development: Entering a Foreign Market)
  • Heavy Industries (Skill development: Solving Technical Problems)
  • Transfer Pricing 3 (Skill development: Holding a Presentation in an International Finance Meeting)
  • Company Jets vs Commercial Flights (Skill development: Arguing)
  • Business Issues: Management Styles (Skill development: Choosing the Best Management Style)
  • Business Issues: Time (Skill development: Time Management)
  • Transfer Pricing 2 (Skill development: Reporting in an International Finance Meeting)
  • Globalisation and the Question of Identity (Skill development: Identity Protection)
  • Transfer Pricing 1 (Skill development: Explaining Cross-Border Transactions, Arm´s Length Principle, Fair Allocation of Profits, Function & Risk Analysis)
  • Business Issues: Workload, Communication Problems, Home Office (Skill development: Addressing Meeting Participants)
  • DF Software Sales Report (Skill development: Understanding Correlations )
  • Business Issues: Environment
  • Bussiness Issues: Increasing the Tone Of the Company (Skill development: Staff Morale)
  • A Successful Business Idea & Raising Funds
  • „Entrepreneur“ : Venture Capital Firms & Business Angels
  • Conferences (Skill development: Making a Smart Offer)
  • Business Issues: How to Tell a Great Story (Harvard)
  • Business Issues: Building Relationships, Looking For a New Supplier
  • Conferences (Skill development: Performing As a Keynote Speaker)
  • TripAdvisor, Social Media & Internet (Skill development: Getting Informed)
  • PCCorp (Skill development SWOT Analysis)
  • Meeting Agendas: Company Language, Competition (Skill development: Business Simulations)
  • Financial News & Investor Relations Consultancy Fortbridge / Shares, Stocks, Equity (Skill development: Best Investments)
  • Why & How To Invest? (Skill development: Money Management)
  • Cash-Generative State of a Business & Its Leader (Skill development: Identifying the Source of Profit)
  • Sense of Humour in Business? (Skill development: Understanding Business Contexts)
  • Business Issues: Workplace Discrimination, Good and Bad Managers
  • Audit Report on the Company Financial Statements: Deloitte & Touche LLP. on Vodafone Group plc. (Skill development: Writing a Financial Report)
  • Business Issues: Advertising, Corporate Crime, Perks, Intellectual Property
  • Big Money, Strong Character & Changing Personality
  • Promotional Films (Skill development: Creating Scenarios)
  • Business Conferences (Skill development: Holding a Speech: Motivational, Informative, Sales, Entertaining, Educational)
  • „Alpha Man Syndrome“: Gerd Krick Fresenius, Jeff Bezos (Skill development: Understanding the Potential & Biographies)
  • „The Escape Room“ (Skill development: Team Building Activities)
  • Communication with Customers (Skill development: Handling Complaints in B2B)
  • Foreign Posts
  • Global Brands (Skill development: Generating Coherent Brand Portfolio Strategies for Hermes, Apple, Lufthansa, Nestle)
  • Brands & Brand Architecture (Skill development: Creating Case Studies)
  • Setting Up a Company (Skill development: Making a Business Plan)
  • Niche Market (Skill development: Understanding Benefits)
  • Cultural Awareness & Gift Giving in Japan (Skill development: Learning Customs)
  • Top Promotional Items (Skill development: Limiting Advertising)
  • Corporate Gifts or Bribes (Skill development: Learning Rules)
  • Career Change (Skill development: Considering Individualism)
  • Promotion Opportunities (Skill development: Climbing up the Corporate Ladder)
  • Career Doctor (Skill development: Advising)
  • Business Issues (Favourite Entrepreneurs, Winning Customers Back, Customer Communication Skills)
  • Business Issues (Dress Code, Economy, Capitalism, Entrepreneurs, Reputation, Corporations & Governments, Business Education, Bright Future For Business Sectors)
  • Hotel Brands
  • Delegating
  • Business, Golf & the Question of Integrity (Skill development: Comparative Thinking)
  • Jeff Bezos: Creating New Markets (Skill development: Analytical Thinking)
  • Business Topics For Discussion: Strategy
  • Business Topics For Discussions: Travel, Job Satisfaction, First Impression
  • Business Topics For Discussions: Cultures
  • Advertising Campaigns & Roadshows: Running a Marathon (Skill development: Marketing Strategies)
  • Brands & Brand Management: Core Brand, Brand Core, Brand Identity, Brand Personality, Self-Branding (Skill development: Looking Behind the Brands)
  • Tesla vs German Quality Standards
  • Confronting Cultures & Culture Shock (Skill development: Intercultural Awareness)
  • Logos & the Clues Behind Them (Skill development: Understanding Coded Information)
  • IT Advertising (Skill development: Reasoning)
  • Business Topics For Discussion: Brands
  • Business Topics For Discussion: Change, Money
  • Is Profit the Purpose of Business? (Skill development: Understanding the Meaning)
  • Lowering & Increasing VAT (Skill development: Managing Change)
  • Reforming a Customer Into a Brand Ambassador (Skill development: Associative Thinking)
  • Business Scenarios (Skill development: Creating a Business Scenario)
  • Promoting Brands Overseas
  • An Annual Management Meeting
  • Caring Management Style & Empowerment
  • Great Money-Making Ideas & the Sources of Creativity
  • Business Topics For Presentations: Product, Management, Customer Care
  • Business Topics For Discussion: Organisation, Team Building
  • When the Going Gets Tough Continued / Oprah Winfrey: Lessons to Learn & the American vs European Approach (Skill development: Critical Thinking)
  • Recalling Products From the Market (Skill development: Understanding Responsibility)
  • Encouraging Customer Loyalty & Understanding the Link Between Business Culture, Employee Loyalty, Customer Loyalty & Revenue Growth (Skill development: Holistic Thinking)
  • Collective vs Individual Commitment to Help (Skill development: Psychological Insights )
  • When the Going Gets Tough Continued / Oprah Winfrey: Characteristics of a Leader (Skill development: Psychological Insights )
  • When the Going Gets Tough Continued / Oprah Winfrey: „Not Everything Is For Sale“ (Skill development: Learning to Balance Pros & Cons)
  • Team Building Activities (Skill development: Finding a Consensus)
  • Hiring Students For Business (Skill development: Perceiving Advantages)
  • When the Going Gets Tough / Oprah Winfrey (Skill development: Entrepreneurship & Empathy)
  • Business is a Combination of War and Sport. Do You Agree? (Skill development: Associative Thinking)
  • Lifestyle & Culture
  • Selling Science & Where It Begins (R&D)
  • Case study: Complete & Integrated Service Solutions
  • Innovation & Masters of Innovation: Self-attack and Crushing the Competitors
  • Case study: Onjus Squeezed Out & Coming Back (Skill development: Putting Businesses Together, Defining a Target Group, Creating an Advertising Slogan, Identifying Perspectives for a Comeback)
  • Finding New Customers (South African Office)
  • Makeover of Britannia: A Path Less Travelled (Risks of a Diversification Exercise, Risks of a New Look)
  • Opening a New R&D Facility (Heidelberg Technology Park or Biopole, Lausanne)
  • Employee Downsizing & Lessons Learned from the ´Downsizing Best Practices´ Companies
  • Successorship Policy
  • Post-pandemic Business Reorientation (Redefining Capitalism, Reshaping Companies´ Strategies)
  • The Secret of Success? (Steve Jobs)
  • Leadership & Entrepreneurship: Jack Welch („Small Company Environment with Big Company Resources“, „People Issues and Informality“, „The Value of Surprise“, „Session C Meetings“, „Leadership Ingredients: E 4“)
  • Enthusiasm Sells („We have a challenge. We generate enthusiasm for addressing the challenge. Therefore we succeed.“)
  • Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty (Skill development: Employee Attitude)
  • About Benchmarking (Strategic, Competitive, Process, Functional, Internal, External, International)
  • European Funds For Africa and Creating New Markets
  • Holiday Trips and Destinations
  • Case study: Coca Cola India´s Thirst For the Rural Market (Marketing Strategies)
  • Effective Promotional Campaign (Lufthansa)
  • Regaining Economic Independence (Europe)
  • Talking to a Bank
  • Case study: Johnson & Johnson´s Health & Wellness Program (Skill development: Stress Management) / „The Boiling Frog Syndrome“
  • Making The Best Deal & Smashing The Competition
  • Understanding „Alignment“ & „Integrity“
  • Intrinsic Motivation
  • Professional Liability: Solution Faces Threat (Accounting & Finance)
  • Case study: Ispat-Sidbec & Entering North America (Acquisitions, Government Subsidies, Post-pandemic Future of Steel Business)
  • Brand Protection (Copyright, Trademark, Design Right, Patent)
  • Intellectual Property & Brand Abuse
  • The jm group – Provider of IT Recruitment Services
  • Atlanta Waterfowl Festival & Economic Development in Peripheral Regions (Skill development: Comparative Business Studies)
  • Artificial Intelligence & The Problem of Dehumanisation
  • New Venture Creation & Legal Regulations
  • Headhunting
  • Telephone Skills
  • Negotiation and Complaining (Skill development: Creating Case Studies)
  • Starting a Business (Skill development: Considering Pros and Cons)
  • Case study: Working from Home (Skill development: Negotiation)
  • A Survey Report (Skill development: Writing Reports)
  • Working Conditions and Social Activities (Skill development: Discussion)
  • Business Role-plays: Yearly Performance Review (Skill development: Tact)
  • Business Role-plays: Workplace Negotiation (Skill development: Making and Rejecting Requests)
  • Case study: Enterprise Risk Management – Boeing (Skill development: Capturing the Essentials)
  • Case study: Henry Ford – A Great Innovator (Skill development: Retrospection)
  • Case study: Michael Dell – The Man Behind Dell / Entrepreneurship (Skill development: Self-reflection)
  • Business Psychology (Skill development: Persuasiveness)
  • Case study: Daimler-Chrysler Merger. A Cultural Mismatch? (Skill development: Cultural Awareness)
  • Publicity: „Stand the Pace“, „Highstand Design & Display“, „cutedisplay.co.uk“ (Skill development: Context Learning)
  • Case study: Kellog´s Indian Experience – A Failed Launch (Skill development: Cultural Adaptation)
  • Case study: The Coke Pepsi Rivalry (Pepsi vs Coke / Is the Rivalry healthy?) (Skill development: Understanding Competition)
  • Case study: Need for Project Management: Decotile (Skill development: Project Management)
  • Case study: Need for Project Management: Bharathi Heat Exchangers Ltd. (Skill development: Project Management)
  • Case study: Coke and the Recall (Skill development: Ethical Decision Making)
  • Logos and Stories Behind Them (Nike, BMW, Tempo)
  • Building a Brand
  • Case study: SC Johnson and the Global Plastic Ocean Crisis (Skill development: Ecological Awareness)
  • Case study: Pharmaceuticals and Biotech (Skill development: Ethical Operations)
  • Business Topics for Business Law
  • Business Topics for Business Communication
  • Business Topics for Global Business
  • Business Topics for Small Business
  • Business Topics for Business Ethics
  • Business Topics for Business Management
  • Business Topics for Business Administration
  • Case studies: Operations & Management (Skill development: Brainstorming and Taking a Stand)
  • Case studies: Marketing & Strategy Cases (Skill development: Brainstorming and Taking a Stand)
  • Case studies: Small Business & Strategy Cases (Skill development: Brainstorming and Taking a Stand)
  • University Module Series: Integrity, Ethics & Law
  • Short Term Tactical Goals vs Long Term Strategies
  • Principles Of Communication by Socrates: Koinonia and The Spirit Of Fellowship
  • Business Problems and Solutions:
    Financial, Business Model, Reputation, Values, Regulations, Branding, Positioning, Demand, Supply, Price Competition, Costs, Sales, Customer Relationships, Promotion, Product, Time To Market, Time To Volume, Know-How, Technology, Information Security, Change, Employee Performance, Organizational Culture, Productivity, Efficiency, Measurement, Quality, Customer Experience, Distribution, Operations
  • Simulations and Brainstorming Sessions :
    1 Late to work 2 A Retirement Gift 3 Bad Parking 4 No Receipt 5 Cover Me 6 Double-booking 7 An Urgent Message 8 An Intruder 9 The Late Caterer 10 The Moody Secretary 11 A Medical Emergency 12 Small Talk 13 Noisy People 14 A Little Accident 15 Broken Photocopier 16 Japanese Visitors 17 Fitness Campaign 18 Cutting Costs 19 Security Issues 20 Going Green 21 Working Late 22 Asking for a Raise 23 A Presentation To Do 24 Technical Help 25 Bossy Co-worker 26 No Team Spirit 27 A Better Price 28 No More Leave 29 Getting Ahead 30 Monkey Business 31 A New Product 32 Nothing to Do 33 A Phone Reference 34 A Late Project 35 Motivation 36 Goodbye 37 Who to Promote? 38 New Responsibilities 39 A Transfer 40 Family Fun Day
  • Brainstorming Ideas: Blow The Competition Out Of The Water
  • Setting Strategic Priorities
  • About Capitalism
  • Ecological Awareness
  • Accounting: Compliance, Green & Social Issues
  • What to Know About Nike´s Latest Impact Report
  • Northern Rock Chronic: Securitisation & The Subprime Mortgage Crisis
  • „The Enron of India – The Verdict on India´s Largest Corporate Fraud Case“
  • Corporate Governance („Scandal Raises Questions About Disclosure Rules“)
  • Investment Credit Rating („Rating the Credit Agencies)
  • Company Insolvency
  • Business Problems (Financial, Business Model, Reputation, Values, Regulations, Branding, Positioning, Demand, Supply, Price Competition, Costs, Sales, Customer Relationships, Promotion, Product, Time to Market, Time to Volume)
  • „Why Deloitte? Deloitte in Conversation“ Trends: Lufthansa, DB, German Automotive Industry
  • Intelligent Entertainment
  • Strategies for Buyers and Sales People & The Power to Walk Away (BATNA)
  • Social Media, Mobile Technologies & Changes in Business Travel
  • Conference Problems (Skill Development: Video Conferencing)
  • Business Ethics Course – Session 1 / Carnegie Mellon University
  • Finance and Banking – „Project Syndicate“ and „Pandemic of Deglobalisation“/Harold James – Princeton
  • Crisis Management: Five Topics to Discuss at the Onset of a Crisis
  • Ethical Trading Initiative and „Der Deutsche Ethikrat“
  • Business Ethics: Nokia, Nestle, Stitch Wear
  • Case study: Coffee Supply Chain (Nestle)
  • Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Motivational Techniques
  • Breakthrough Performance (Skill development: A Pitch to the Board)
  • RDC and Supply Chain Management Organization (Skill development: Sales Pitch)
  • Princeton University (Reflections)
  • American Dream and Its Roots: Eldorado and Brave New World (The Mythical Dream), A City Upon A Hill
    (The Religious Dream), Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (The Political Dream)
  • Disillusion of the American Dream
  • Case study: McDonald´s – A Clash Between Identity and Strategy & Its Implications
  • The Secret of Success: Iaccocca´s Transformation of Chrysler
  • Change vs Crisis (Skill development: Holding a Speech)
  • Training (Skill development: Finding a Consens)
  • Business Week in the Light of Research
  • Management skills: Prioritizing and Delegating
  • „Sony signs sponsorship contract with Lang Lang“
  • Environmental Awareness and Sustainability
  • International Marketing Faux Pas (Role Play)
  • Academic Writing & Its Features
  • Academic Writing Style: Hedging
  • Marketing: BMW Series „The Hire“
  • Paired Comparison Method
  • Harvard Business Review: The Leadership Lessons of Mount Everest (Skill development: Decision Making)
  • Harvard Business Review, Developing Management Skills (Whetten, D.A., Cameron, K.S.) (Skill Development: How Leaders Become Self Aware, Self Awareness)
  • Management Skills (Whetten, D.A., Cameron K.S.) (Skill Development: Developing Teams and Teamwork)/ Leadership Lessons from Canada Geese)
  • Creativity: Managing a Project and How to Find a Great Idea
  • Multicultural Project and Introducing a Change
  • Consulting: MyOfficeChef and IMS
  • Location Bingo (Skill Development: Interaction)
  • The USP: Jever, Nike
  • Giving Cultural Advice for Germany
  • Suggestion Box and „Restructuring for Efficiency“
  • „Slimmers“ Health Club (Skill development: Directors Talk and Consulting)
  • Financing a Business (Skill Development: Advisory Skills)
  • Foreign Consultants and Cultural Aspects
  • „Spectrum“ and how to save the business (Skill development: Creating a marketing text)
  • Skill Development College (Skill development: Creating a Business Guide)
  • Environmentally friendly industry/“Green office and green products“
    (Skill development: Increasing the environmental awareness)
  • Investments: Shares and the Stock Exchange (Skill development: Simplification)
  • Suggestion box: Restructuring for efficiency
  • Traditional Marketing vs Media Marketing & „Has traditional marketing future in the internet age?“
  • Case study: Language school & boosting student numbers (Skill development: Talking to the board)
  • Case study: Illycaffe and Generating Success (Yale School of Management)
  • Case study: Loro Piana and „Welcome in the Era of Expectations (Luxury Industry)
  • Case study: Starbucks and Human Resources Practices
  • Case study: Brazilian Peasant Economy and Tradition vs. Change
  • Publicity Stunts (Skill development: Foreseeing, Advising, Increasing sales)
  • Conference Centre: The Radison Blu Hotel Shanghai New World (Skill development: Correspondence)
  • Finance and Business (Skill development: Coherent texts)
  • Corruption (Skill development: Press statement)
  • Relaunching a brand (Skill development: Translation)
  • Management culture (Skill development: Teaching)
  • Florida Tech Science Cargo Headed to Space Station (Skill development: Press release)
  • Launch of a new book store (Skill development: Press release)
  • Franchising (Skill development: Writing)
  • You and your company/Company profile (Skill development: Creating coherence)
  • Language skills: Interrogation, Imperatives
  • Staff facts and figures/Skills audit
  • BBC Hard Talk: Commercial interests, Financial Incentives,
    Moral Limits of Markets and the Technique of a Socratic Dialogue
  • The Guardian: „Universal Public Income doesn´t work…“
  • Agrodist: Ethical Behaviour or Maximising Profit?
  • Customer service: Evaluation, Consequences, Solutions.
  • Harvard Business: The Future of Capitalism (Skill development: Leading a discourse)
  • Case study: Fendara SL and Changes to Working Practices (Skill development: Investigation)
  • PDQ, Bank of Veronah (Skill development: Reading Graphs)
  • „Ford“ Principle (Skill development: Small Talk)
  • Job Interviews: (Skill development: Lecturing)
  • Top Business Philosophy Examples (Skill development: Having an own stance)
  • „Leasing Office Space“ (Skill development: Negotiations)
  • Language Skills: Imperatives, Interrogation,
    Vocabulary Work (C2), Text Work (The University of Dublin/Trinity College)
  • Harvard Business: Developing the CEO within you
  • Business Philosophy: Peter Drucker und „Druckerisms“
  • Top Business Philosophy Examples and developing own stance
  • „Super-fast Blue Gene looks for answers“
  • „How the recycling symbol was created?“
  • Developing writing skills: summary, synopsis, analysis, synthesis, evaluation
  • Writing and understanding texts: linkers
  • Public speaking skills: Theresa May
  • Innovation: „Japan must reward bright sparks“
  • Academic English: Key word transformations
  • Report on Eco-Homes Project
  • Stories and inversion exercises
  • Business and reading graphs
  • Breaking the ice – small talk skills
  • Developing skills: formulating
  • Teams search strength in affiliations
  • German car industry
  • Talking about countries
  • Business writing skills: emails, memos and reports
  • Product description
  • Giving feedback
  • Idioms about success
  • Intercultural awareness: England at Christmas
  • Flexible benefits / PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • „Airlines look to make loyalty pay“
  • Marketing disasters / The marketing mix
  • Marketing / „A good idea at the time…“ / „Promotions that failed“
  • Going Global / „Choosing the right product“
  • Case study: Marriott (Mastering Global Business)
  • „Economy and the environment“
  • „Maldives – nature´s sunken garden“
  • Business Topics for Presentations (Business and workplace safety, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Inspirational, Educational, Challenging and Management topics, Strategy, Cross-Cultural Communications)
  • Speaking for CBEC (Quality control, Information management, Financial planning)
  • CBEC Higher Speaking Test
  • Product description
  • C2 „Lucy gets a new job on a newspapaer“, „The fog catcher´s forest“, „Photography – a historical background“
  • Harvard Business Review „The Case for the 6-Hour Workday“
  • Intercultural awareness: England at Christmas
  • „Flying Times“ – The story of the jet liner – an invention that has hanged the way we live
  • Brands
  • „Meet Robodog“ The world´s largest and most advanced commercial legged robot rewrites robotics rulebooks
  • Labor Cost Index
  • Globalization and the Role of Accountants
  • Relocation: Why do people relocate? „Thinking of relocating? Take a look Down Under“, Arranging to relocate
  • New premises: Finding the right location, „It’s not what you are, it’s where you are“
  • Reporting results: Measuring performance, Annual reports, Green initiatives and Assessing environmental impact („Western College of Higher Education“ and an Environmental Qustionnaire, Recyclebank
  • Health and Safety: Injuries at work, Report of an injury or dangerous occurence, „5 Steps to risk assessment“, „Working Environment Survey and Are you happy with your working environment?“
  • Rights at work: Know your rights, „adviseU.org“, Problems at work
  • Business expenses: Claiming expenses, „Sofrac Limited“, A new expenses claims system
  • Business travel: Airline services, „Taking on the grown-ups“ and „How low-cost airlines are looking to compete in the lucrative world of business travel“
  • Flexible benefits: Benefits, „How Choices works“, The Advantages of flexible benefits“ and „Your options“
  • Business conversation questions: Business, Customer Sevice, Monopolies and Cartels, Business Ethics, Companies
  • Employment conversation questions: You and your job, Working hours, Employment, Job interviews, Unemployment, Strikes
  • Language skills for business: Business idioms, Euphemisms in the workplace, Preposition collocations, Inversion
  • Cambridge English: Exam practice and simulations
  • Technical English: Plasma Nitriding, CVD/PVD, Polishing, Chillers, „Engine Manufacturing at its best“, Future of the cars
  • Accounting: Activity-based Budgeting, Accounting questions, Investments
  • English for fun: Brunch
  • Heat treatment
  • Siemens: How does a chiller system work?
  • Business topics for debate/discussion:
    minimum wages, casual dress code, strict policies against dating at work, happy employees, working from home, human resources and inteviewing candidates / taboo questions, blocking social media sites at work, drug testing in companies, an MBA is worth the cost, pro sports leagues and a non-profit status, same salaries for men and women
  • „What is VAT?“
  • „E-invoices“
  • „Transfer pricing in the EU context“
  • „The Wirtschaftsprüfer Profession“
  • „A conflict of interest“
  • „Management accounting“
  • „Senior management accountant“
  • „Engine manufacturing at its best“
  • Travel: Tanzania – untamed Africa and finding out what you have back at home
  • Problem definition skills – practical solutions
  • Feature: „Green light for printing copper“- a new laser beam source
  • „Lean thinking“ or beginning with self-awareness
  • Memos, emails and business letters
  • Personal development: Behavioral interviews: „A job candidate’s toughest obstacle“
  • Corporate image: „Ethical MBA’s: A search for corporate social responsibility
  • Corporate image scenarios
  • Business games: Supply chain: Communicative crossword
  • Managing conflict: „Which management style to use“
  • Strategic marketing: CoolBrands: Official results and CoolBrands Selection Process
  • Strategic marketing: „Actions speak louder than words“
  • Risk management: „Reputation management“
  • Risk management: Business scenarios: Hoover, Foster, Persil, Wembley, Ford, Ikea
  • Business Scenarios: Investment: „Logos and cultural events“ & „Arts sponsorship“: „Opera for everyone“,“Make some Noise“ Project, „Crafts Creation“, „The Weybridge Literature Festival“
  • Business scenarios: Corporate image and moral dilemmas
  • Relocation 1: „Take a look down under“
  • Relocation 2: „New premises“
  • Introduction to accounting
  • Financial statements and ratios
  • Tax accounting
  • Auditing
  • Fashion: cultural heritage, understatement and smart clothes
  • Cultural evolution
  • Decision making skills
  • „Think outside the box“ and seeing a bigger picture
  • „God bless the niche“ and why
  • Nuclear industry
  • Management, leadership and charismata
  • Goldman Sachs and ethics of wealth on the Wall Street
  • „Arranging a company visit“ and letters of invitation
  • Ordering goods, discussing or confirming changes
  • Managing and improving cash flow
  • Case study: „@business2business“
  • „Putting the caller on hold, not the business“
  • Brand power: Ethical businesses and „Banking on ethics“ / The Co-operative
  • Public Relations and Skoda UK
  • The benefits of good PR
  • „The new Fabia. Full of lovely stuff“ – Skoda. Manufacturer of happy drivers.
  • UK Media Launch of the Careedo Crescent
  • Management / Customers / Commerce / Brands and the language side of business
  • „How does the eHighway work?“
  • „Who controls the Internet?“: Google, Facebook and Amazon or knowledge, social and commerce internet giants
  • „The fourth industrial revolution“
  • „How does GPS work?“ or Trilateration and Relativity