von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 5, 2026 | Sparks |
Can I say something different here? There’s a moment in a meeting when you know the decision is wrong. You feel it before you can say it, that quick pull in your chest while everyone else nods. In your own language you’d have said it already, in the exact...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 2, 2026 | Sparks |
The greeting you don’t have to choose You don’t have to pick the right opening. Somebody already picked one for you. Their email is sitting open on your screen. Whatever they wrote at the top tells you where they’re comfortable. „Hi...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 1, 2026 | Sparks |
Overtake or take over? The German word that flips in English In a handover meeting, a colleague said, „I’ll overtake the project from Monday.“ Everyone nodded. Everyone understood. Übernehmen is über plus nehmen. Over plus take. English uses the same...
von Christine Burgmer | Sep. 30, 2026 | Sparks |
Nobody is holding a red pen Someone asked me recently what my work feels like after 25 years. The honest answer is that it doesn’t feel like work. It feels like conversations. A lot of people arrive at a first session braced for the red pen. They sit down...
von Christine Burgmer | Sep. 29, 2026 | Sparks |
Steal the technique, not the accent You watch a TED talk (I love them!) and think, I could never sound like that. So you work on the wrong thing. The voice, the polish, the ease that seems to come with growing up speaking English. What makes a talk easy to follow is...
von Christine Burgmer | Sep. 28, 2026 | Sparks |
Dear all, and what most people write instead You’ve written „Dear all“ hundreds of times. Nobody has ever complained, and nobody ever will. It’s correct. It’s also a little more formal than you probably feel about the eight people who are...
