For more than 25 years, Brian Mantle has been living and working in Germany as a trainer and moderator, focussing on various topics around communication, presentation and leadership. Brian has spent more than twenty of these years in leadership roles within an international environment.
Brian was born and grew up in Great Britain with a passion for communication and language. This led him to study German at university and to head to the city of Essen in 1996 to work as a trainer. He now has dual British and German nationality and is bilingual.
During his many years as a trainer, Brian has held thousands of seminars and workshops, in Germany and abroad, in almost all sectors of the economy on such subjects as:
Presentation
Negotiation
Communication
Leadership
Self-Management
Moderation
Team Trainings
Business English
In addition to training, Brian has facilitated countless workshops and moderated conflict situations within teams, as well as offering individual coaching.
Brian is a qualified and recognised trainer in Germany and the UK.
Seminars with Brian Mantle are target oriented, lively and interactive. The emphasis of all trainings is on practicing what has been learnt in an open and engaging environment.
In his over 25 year experience as a trainer and moderator, Brian has developed and finely tuned his methods in order to reach personal development targets in a short space of time.
Seminars can take place in a variety of formats:
In a seminar room in a location of your choosing, or online
In the German or in the English language
For one day, or over several days
Brian’s training method is always flexible and dependent on the group, the targets and the situation but he always follows the same simple three principles:
Clear, motivating and relevant input on the chosen topic. Using modern tools and models, participants will learn about ideas that they can put into practice. Brian uses his typical British humour, personal anecdotes and stories to create the intended A-ha effect with the group. In soft skills seminars he actively shows the participants how he deals with certain situations.
The participant then has the opportunity to use the input in practical exercises that are relevant to the seminar topic. As an example, this could be a role-play, a presentation or a group reflection. The exercises are easy to understand but challenging.
Brian’s feedback is future-oriented, respectful and positive. It focusses on what the participant can do well and on what areas they could improve on. He uses the group dynamic to add to this and often uses video recordings to allow the participants to see themselves in action. The feedback from one exercise is then carried forward to the next exercise.
