Christine Burgmer - let's talk business

Christine Burgmer - let's talk business Helping German-speaking entrepreneurs and solopreneurs speak English clearly and confidently.

My area of expertise: customised English conversation and communication coaching for business owners (entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and wannabepreneurs) and other experts. I organise and offer both online and offline:
- 1:1 coaching
- small group training
- interactive and engaging workshops
- made-to-measure, trainer-accompanied language trips to
Malta, Mallorca and Britain (when we're allowed to travel again!)

25/09/2026

Talking to the lovely Michi from Mirasee... about letting going of perfectionism.

The idea arrives in the ten minutes between two sessions. By the evening, it's gone.Trainers tell me they've got nothing...
24/09/2026

The idea arrives in the ten minutes between two sessions. By the evening, it's gone.

Trainers tell me they've got nothing to post about. Then they describe their week, and there are five posts in it.

The material is already there. Catching it is the part that slips.

Try this after your next session. One sentence about the thing that surprised you. Not a post. A sentence, in whatever you already use for notes.

Two weeks of that and you'll have more than you can use.

What surprised you in a session this week?

The Visible Trainer is in my bio if you'd like one of these a month.

You can prepare a lesson. You can't prepare a conversation.For years I planned every session. Objectives, materials, the...
21/09/2026

You can prepare a lesson. You can't prepare a conversation.

For years I planned every session. Objectives, materials, the lot. These days I read the client's week and bring two questions.

The sessions got better. My prep time halved.

What would you have to stop preparing to find out?

Fourteen minutes on this in the Momentum Podcast, in German.

https://short.do/V6u8d_
Thanks, Noëmi - .ch.

You got the methodology. The qualification.But how to write about your work, how to attract the right clients. That part...
02/07/2026

You got the methodology. The qualification.

But how to write about your work, how to attract the right clients. That part you worked out alone.

I've been writing a monthly email about exactly this. Today it has a name.
It's called The Visible Trainer.

Link in bio.

We train students to reach for the exact word, then watch them freeze when it won't come. One missing noun and the whole...
29/06/2026

We train students to reach for the exact word, then watch them freeze when it won't come. One missing noun and the whole sentence stops.

But proficient speakers forget words constantly. They just don't stop. They say "the thing you open tins with," and the conversation carries on.

That's the skill worth teaching. Not a bigger vocabulary list, but what to do in the gap.

Describe it, talk around it, swap in a simpler word. Keep going.

Your student doesn't need every word. She needs to not fall silent when one goes missing.

We over-prepare to feel safe. The neat plan, the timed stages, the worksheet that ties it all together. It's more of a c...
26/06/2026

We over-prepare to feel safe. The neat plan, the timed stages, the worksheet that ties it all together. It's more of a comfort blanket than a lesson.

Then the student says something halfway through that matters more than anything you'd planned, and the good trainer drops the plan to follow it.

That's where the real lesson was hiding. In the thing she actually struggles with, not the thing you decided to teach on a Tuesday evening.

Bring a rough shape, not a script. Leave room to chase what comes up. The plan is for you. The lesson is for her.

We think we're helping when we catch everything. Every article, every preposition, every slip. We're being thorough.What...
25/06/2026

We think we're helping when we catch everything. Every article, every preposition, every slip. We're being thorough.

What the student hears is a steady drip of "wrong, wrong, wrong."

Most of those errors cost nothing. The room understood her. The meaning got through. Correcting them anyway just teaches her that speaking English means being watched for mistakes.

Pick the one that actually changed what she meant. Let her fix that. Leave the rest.

She'll talk more when she stops bracing for the next correction. And the talking is what fixes the small stuff anyway.

A boring lesson is nearly always a quiet student and a talking trainer. You explain, you model, you fill the gaps. They ...
22/06/2026

A boring lesson is nearly always a quiet student and a talking trainer. You explain, you model, you fill the gaps. They nod. The clock crawls.

Flip who's doing the work. Ask the question and wait through the awkward pause instead of rescuing it. Get them building the sentence, not watching you build it.

The energy in a room comes from the person doing the talking, and right now that's you.

One of the best teaching habits I've built:I keep a swipe file of real mistakes from English learners.Not to point out e...
18/06/2026

One of the best teaching habits I've built:

I keep a swipe file of real mistakes from English learners.

Not to point out errors. To spot patterns.

When the same mistake shows up again and again, it tells me exactly what needs more practice, clearer explanations or better examples.

Over time, that file becomes more useful than any textbook.

Your students' mistakes are data. Pay attention to them.

The ones who improve fastest aren't the careful ones. They're the ones who'll risk a clumsy sentence and notice the room...
15/06/2026

The ones who improve fastest aren't the careful ones. They're the ones who'll risk a clumsy sentence and notice the room doesn't end.

Your job isn't to keep them from getting it wrong. It's to make getting it wrong feel safe enough to do again.

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