In her inspiring coachings, trainings and keynotes, Sandra Harbert-Unterschütz shares the latest insights from cognitive psychology integrated with business experiences and top management consulting tools. 

With an engaging mix of best practices and specific tools she provides proven “business hacks” that can be used tomorrow morning to boost your performance.



Sandra’s sessions focus on building up communication, presentation and project management skills e.g. communicating to the point, interacting convincingly and successfully managing projects.

Every session is customized to address the specific challenges your team is facing. Topics can also be combined to a multi-day curriculum, e.g. to a Base Camp for High Potentials.

Training module examples

1.

Convincing communication and presentation


Radically shorten preparation and presentation time and boost the impact of your presentation through a streamlined process of storylining and chart design


  • Key message concept: Extract your key message and deliver it during the first minute of your presentation – the time with the highest attention span
  • Storylining technique: Support your key message with a story that is immediately convincing without distracting your audience with unnecessary information
  • Storyboarding technique: Support your story with a minimum number of charts that are easy to read and understand
  • Convincing delivery: Bring to live your story and interact with your audience for maximum conviction

2.

Successful interaction with different personalities

Master techniques from psychology and coaching to smoothly interact - despite differences in personality, cultural background, or gender


  • Detecting and understanding the root causes of success and failure when interacting with different personalities, cultural backgrounds, or genders
  • Applying techniques from psychology and coaching to connect and overcome potential barriers
  1. The 5-minute hack to focus the preparation – Achieve maximum value in your interaction
  2. Targeted communication and style - Successfully interact through active listening, deep structure interviewing questions and the right balance between questions and answers 
  3. Convincing at the first contact and beyond - Position yourself, build relationships and use the full range of the 10 most powerful influencing techniques

3.

The smart way to project management 


Know your roles and tasks as a project manager and achieve the critical success factors by mastering the most important tools to successfully kick-off and monitor projects

  • Definition of project targets and scope: The 5-Minute-Hack to define projects in a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Reasonable, Time-bound) way
  • Clustering and prioritizing work packages: Achieve maximum value in every project phase by evaluating a MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) overview about all possible project levers e.g. via logic trees
  • Managing stakeholders: Ensure interaction with all relevant project participants according to a comprehensive Stakeholder Analysis Matrix 
  • Controlling project progress: Gain commitment and buy-in for the project plan with clear responsibilities and milestones. Continuously follow up, track success and readjust where necessary.