Business English Training
We provide high quality, practical language training in a professional and friendly learning atmosphere.
Our training can be group and one-to-one training and can be in-company at our client or in our own rooms. Most of our courses are for learners at all levels of English knowledge. Some more specific training and some of our workshops are recommended for intermediate level B1 or higher (CEF level).
“Learning a language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
Flora Lewis
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Why not join one of our evening or weekend groups in our rooms or, if you prefer, in one of our live online group or individual lessons? Great rates for private paying individuals! Contact us for more information.
Business Communication
Main focus: English for your business
Better language and communication skills and more confidence will improve your performance and enhance relations between you and your business partners. We focus on Business English specific to your job and company by covering the following:
- English related to your job needs
- Business Skills e.g. meetings or small talk
- Business Conversation and Grammar
- Business Vocabulary expansion
Branch specific English
Main focus: English specific to your industry/branch
Knowing the English specific to you branch involves understanding and explaining specific terms, processes and functions and not just learning the specialist vocabulary, but knowing how to use it. Our specialist trainers can work with your own company documents e.g. contracts, websites or technical manuals. Some possible branches are:
- Advertising
- Architecture and Design
- Automotive industry
- English for Secretaries and Personal Assistants
- Financial English
- Insurance
- IT/Software
- Human Resources
- Legal English
- Medicine
- Metal and Industry
- Real Estate
- Tourism
Business Skills-Workshops
Best suited to intensive or semi-intensive training and to learners at intermediate Level B1 or higher
Main focus: English for the business skill/s
Do you have a good grasp of the English you need for your every day work, but feel unsure while presenting in English or in meetings? Do you lack confidence when making small talk in English? Would you like to improve your skills when dealing with customers? In these workshops, we focus on the English related to the skill. With hands on practice, sound professional advice and targeted feedback, you improve your ability in a very short space of time. Workshops are:
- English for Presentations
- Negotiating in English
- Small Talk
- English in Meetings
- Business Correspondence
- Dealing with Customers
- Project Management
… or a combination of some of the above
Telephone Training
Suited to anyone who uses English over the phone or to anyone who doesn’t have enough time or is too far away for face-to-face training
Main focus: Professional English on the phone
Much of today’s business is carried on over the phone or by e-mail and plays a central part in the lives of today’s business professional. One phone call from abroad and suddenly you need to switch into English to do business with your telephone partner.
Most find telephoning particularly challenging because there’s no face-to-face contact. We can’t use our “hands and feet”. So why practise it face-to-face? We don’t. We call you or you call us to practise real telephone conversations and language relevant to your work. You quickly increase your confidence on the phone, while at the same time enhancing your language skills.
Email Training
Suited to anyone who uses English in emails
Main focus: Professional English in emails
Do you write or receive emails in English? Is a lot of your contact with English via email? Improve your written English business correspondence with our email training. You send us some examples of emails that you have written or have to write and we send you targeted feedback. And/or we send you emails with tasks for you to complete. In this way, you train your written skills and learn the typical language and skills needed for successful email and business correspondence.
A blend of email, telephone and face-to-face training is also effective. We would be happy to advise you. Please just get in touch.
Shadowing
“Shadowing” is time saving and efficient and couldn’t be more individual! We accompany you (shadow you) whether you’re in a meeting or a teleconference, giving a presentation or at a fair. We then provide detailed feedback in a one-to-one meeting with you. Through on-going observation sessions and individual feedback meetings, the learning process is speeded up. Shadowing immediately gets right to the core of your needs! Alternatively, we can shadow a team.
Emergency English
For anyone who needs to prepare their English for an upcoming event
Main focus: Individual Coaching
“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” Sean O’Casey
Are you a busy executive? Is there a conference or a presentation coming up that you’re not well prepared for and/or not confident about?
Work with us and we will help you get ready at short notice. Bring your presentation to us or tell us about the event. We practise and rehearse with you. Our team are flexible and often work at the weekend.