Workshop conceptualisation and training

Tailor-made workshops to meet your needs in:

Internal and external communication

  • Who are your target audiences and how do you best reach them
  • Key messages and mission statements
  • Media relations
  • Crisis communication
  • Communication policies and strategies; communication planning
  • Improving the internal communication in your team or organisation
  • Effective, audience-appropriate presentations

Intercultural competences

  • Build your personal or your teams’ intercultural skills and knowledge
  • Manage culturally mixed teams effectively, in your home country or abroad
  • Understand different communication styles
  • Develop strategies to solve or avert conflicts and misunderstandings that can arise in the encounter of different cultures
  • Prepare for work assignments abroad
  • Prepare for a posting specifically to Switzerland, the USA or South Africa

Writing

  • Writing for clarity
  • Improving the readability, structure and flow of texts
  • Writing for different platforms and communication channels
  • News features and storytelling

Journalism

  • Basic reporting and interviewing skills, news writing (print or online)
  • News features, profiles, opinion pieces, columns
  • Ethics and codes of conduct
  • Reporting on sensitive issues, incl. interviews with children, victims of violence, stigmatised communities
  • Thematic workshops: e.g. reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals, health, conflicts, gender mainstreaming
  • Covering conferences or summits (e.g. International Aids Conference, UN conferences, etc.)

Consulting

  • Internal and external communication: consulting on small and large communication projects; evaluation of internal and/or external communication of organisations
  • Communication about development and international cooperation: evaluating the effectiveness of external communication; audience analysis; communicating with project partners and beneficiary communities
  • Media development, incl. improving journalistic practice, ethics, team management
  • Intercultural communication: assessment and improvement of intercultural competences of staff, communicating across cultures in the workplace

Editing

I offer editing and proofreading services for all types of writing: articles, publications, reports, etc. in German and English.

  • Proofreading to correct grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and length
  • Editing for clarity and accuracy
  • Verification of translations (target languages: German or English, source languages: English, German, French)

Journalism and Writing

As a journalist and foreign correspondent, I have written about a wide range of topics in a variety of styles (see “Who I am”). I have a proven expertise in development issues and international cooperation, and an in-depth knowledge of Africa, in particular sub-Saharan Africa

  • Content for publications (for example: annual reports, brochures, magazines, newspapers, newsletters)
  • Press releases
  • Q&A interviews
  • Profiles