Today, Jürgen Klopp is known as a quick-witted and successful football coach. He was also quick-witted as a relatively unknown professional, as a curious find shows. Today, Jürgen Klopp is not only one of the most successful football coaches in the world, but also an international media star. Video clips of Jürgen Klopp’s appearance (© […]
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Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, bans PowerPoint presentations in his meetings. And for good reason, because PowerPoint is not a management tool! PowerPoint is purely a visualization tool. Nothing more and nothing less. Here are a few tips for preparing a successful presentation in important meetings: 1) Start with the goal of your presentation. Incidentally,
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Zurich, 2 Nov 2024 – The cycling world mourns the loss of Muriel Furrer. The 18-year-old Swiss rider crashed heavily in a wooded area during the junior women’s race at the Road Cycling World Championships in Zurich. She succumbed to her injuries a day later. The exact cause of the crash is still unclear and
World Cycling Championships 2024 in Zurich: disastrous crisis communication Read More »
1.) Presence and relationship: Continuous care You can only influence people with whom you are in contact and maintain a relationship. This is why it is so difficult to tell an unknown person who is not behaving appropriately in a public space to stop their disruptive behaviour. 2.) Support and network: Constructive and fear-free Sometimes
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Niklaus-Samuel Gugger was born in India and grew up in Switzerland. […] Whenever grey storm clouds loomed over the negotiating table, he remained confident. In autumn 2022, Parmelin took him to India for the first time. After that, the positions on both sides loosened and the negotiations accelerated rapidly. A year ago, setbacks threatened again.
“At home in two cultures”: How the Switzerland-India trade agreement benefited from this Read More »
During the SRF news program “10 vor 10”, presenter Wasiliki Goutziomitros suddenly lost her voice. She cleared her throat, coughed and clutched her chest, but nothing helped. “Please excuse me, I need a drink of water,” she finally said, reaching for the bottle under the presenter’s desk, turning away slightly and taking a quick drink.
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Richard Mueller negotiated for the UK in hostage-takings in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The most important thing in negotiations was that communication between his team and the hostage-takers never broke down. The tools were patience, listening and engaging the hostage-takers in dialogue, which allowed him to gain time and important information. The goal was
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1.) Conduct conversations differently: Bosses ask at team meetings: ‘What surprised you?’ or ‘Which project excites you?’ Questions like these invite employees to open their minds and pay attention to the unexpected. It is also about creating more points of contact in conversations. When asked ‘What do you do?’, you don’t just answer with your
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How can you create a creative working atmosphere to generate as many different ideas as possible? Reduce hierarchies during the brainstorming process, as Eveline Geiser explains in the NZZ article. To put it more casually: send the boss on a coffee break. Any form of evaluation is detrimental to creativity. Don’t let the team express
First ‘Brain-Writing’ then ‘Brain-Storming’ Read More »
A negotiated solution can only be found if both sides benefit from it. Objective criteria, including their weighting, must be defined in order to assess the benefits. Agreeing on these criteria and their weighting in advance speeds up the negotiations. ‘Electricity companies, environmental protection organisations and cantons have agreed on rules and a list of
Expansion of Swiss hydropower: negotiating objective evaluation criteria together Read More »
How can ‘influencing’ and ‘negotiating’ be used to turn projects into reality? What negotiation strategies should be pursued and what framework conditions are needed to ensure that negotiations result in stable contracts in both the political and economic environment? Dr Adis Merdzanovic (lecturer at the ZHAW) and Dr Adrienne Suvada (lecturer at the ZHAW) asked
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Arguments should be valid and credible. This is how we prepare ourselves if we want to win over our counterpart for a project idea. We deliberately focus on the three most important arguments, the weakest in the middle and the strongest at the end. So what about assessing a large number of counter-arguments? Reality shows
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