Tinta-Training - Let's talk

LET’S TALK

Communication training
in Germany & Europe

“If you just communicate, you can get by.
But if you communicate skilfully, you can work miracles.”

Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur

“If you just communicate, you can get by.
But if you communicate skilfully, you can work miracles.”

Jim Rohn,
American entrepreneur

Tinta Training helps you communicate effectively in business and academia. Based in southern Germany, we are two British communication trainers offering tailored workshops in English and German – online or in person. Our long-standing collaboration provides practical, results-driven training that is guaranteed to tangibly improve your communication skills for international interactions.

BUSINESS AND CORPORATE TALK

“Great speakers are not born, they’re trained”

attributed to Dale Carnegie, American communication and motivation trainer

Sharpen your communication skills and improve interaction. The modern business professional is required to communicate quickly, clearly and appropriately in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. How you speak, present yourself and interact not only communicates a lot about you, but paves the way for fruitful interaction and better working relationships. Our workshops are geared towards helping people working in business environments improve the building blocks of speech and interaction regardless of position and sector. They are practical, suited to your needs, solution- and goal-oriented.

The workshop duration and content are tailored to suit your needs. We offer workshops online, in house or at an external location on the following topics: Successful speaking: Voice training, body-language coaching and much more…

Successful speaking: Improve your vocal skills and fine-tune your body-language.
Successful presenting: Learning the subtle arts of presenting and interacting.
Spontaneous speaking: Adapting, reacting and improvising with finesse.
Assertiveness: Make your point, stand your ground – represent yourself.
Working with anxiety: Strategies to deal with stage fright and impostor syndrome.
Job interview training: Managing image and information under pressure.
Intercultural communication: Who am I? Who are you?

The duration of the workshops varies between half a day and five days. If you require a customised didactic concept on another topic or additional information, including a detailed description of the workshop contents, please get in touch.

ACADEMIC TALK AND WRITING

“Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.”

Anne Roe, American psychologist and writer

“Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated.”

Anne Roe, American psychologist and writer

Acquire the skill set you need to make a greater impact. Nowadays in the science and academic sectors, your ability to communicate professionally, convincingly and precisely is the key to success. We offer a range of workshops designed to help scientists, Ph.D. students and researchers improve their English academic communication skills. We draw on an extensive repertoire of teaching methods and materials, ensuring that the workshops are tailored to our students’ learning goals. The contents are always very practical – the communication skills that scientists and academic professionals need for their day-to-day working lives.

The workshop duration and content are tailored to suit your needs. We offer workshops online, in house or at an external location on the following topics: Academic/scientific writing in English:

How to write clearly and concisely
Writing scientific papers that get published
Writing convincing grant applications

Responding to reviewers

Academic/scientific presentations and discussions

Academic/scientific presentations: Finding a path through interaction, relevance and impact
Poster presentations: Condensing and presenting information in the marketplace…
Public speaking in the academic context:
Vocal confidence = competence!

Communicating in everyday academic life

Intercultural communication
Small talk and networking in academia
Asserting yourself: Defending ideas, representing yourself

VOICES

Public speaking ORANGE

Public speaking

On Tuesday, I gave a presentation at the Bundestag and for the first time in my life, I felt super prepared and was not nervous at all. Without your recommendations this would have been very different, I am sure. Orlando, your ideas on how to portion my research results in a convincing and audience-friendly manner helped me a lot when preparing the input and I was told afterwards by those who attended the event that it was easy for them to follow and to relate to my (more) concise (than usual) talk. So once more: Big thanks for your excellent and very competent support!

Dorothea Wehrmann, German Institute of Development and Sustainability

Academic presentations

Two days, so intensive, so professional, such a good atmosphere – working perfectly as a team, Amanda Habbershaw and Orlando Schenk coached PhD students from the SFB Spin+X Young Researcher College. We highly recommend their practical and tailored presentation training.

Eva Ohler, Sonderforschungsbereich Spin+X, RPTU and
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Business communication ORANGE

Business communication

An instructive, entertaining and intensive training - perfect preparation for our international representatives' meeting. We focused on presenting complex contents in the English language together with the targeted use of voice and body language and were able to improve considerably under your guidance. A really interesting, exciting and effective training that we can strongly recommend.

Peter Schwab, Managing Director, Brandenburger Isoliertechnik GmbH & Co. KG

Academic Writing

Amanda Habbershaw’s academic writing seminar had a perfect balance between theory and practice. Moreover, it included personalized feedback sessions, which I believe was the best learning experience. The feedback that she provided remains my guideline for good academic writing!

Marcela Pozas Guarjardo, Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg

Academic Writing

Amanda Habbershaw's online workshop on writing scientific discussion sections included a mixture of repetition and new information – just the right amount of challenge for me. It felt particularly helpful to apply what we learned and to critically evaluate our own texts in the second module. So far the best workshop I've attended through the university.

Marlis Wullenkord, Psychology PhD candidate, RPTU

LET’S TALK ABOUT US

Amanda Habbershaw

Born in London, I hold a Master’s degree in applied languages and certifications in language teaching and intercultural communication training and consultancy. With over 25 years of experience in language teaching in universities, I have focused mainly on working with scientists and on developing their communication skills in the last 15 years. In my workshops, I apply an interactive, practice-oriented approach which provides the participants with the skills they need for their day-to-day working lives in academia. My workshops are always a worthwhile, rewarding and fun experience for all involved – including myself!

Amanda Habbershaw

Orlando Schenk

I come from the southwest of England but have lived for over 20 years in Germany. My Master´s degree is in Speech Science (Regensburg University), I am a certified speech trainer (Sprecherzieher) at the Akademie für gesprochenes Wort in Stuttgart and I work extensively in the field of verbal and non-verbal communication for universities and companies throughout Europe. I also conduct research; my last collaboration and paper was in the area of digital presenting. I enjoy the challenge and adventure of working with different individuals and groups to open up new communicative horizons for clients and refine what is already there. My workshops are very practical, group and individual-oriented, and fast-paced.

Orlando Schenk