EXECUTIVE TRAINING RESOURCES
Advantages and Benefits
These seminars are an excellent tool to provide on the job training at very low cost. Any given seminar taken every quarter can cover your training needs of the year.
They have been thought as building blocks to integrate language skills and terminology for employees who need to communicate in English at different levels.
Language levels and time availability, as well as the possibility to customize them according to corporate needs/objectives can be further discussed.
NEGOTIATIONS
Level: Higher Intermediate through Advanced
Target Audience: HR people, traders, sales managers, etc.
Time availability: Two 4-hr sessions
Abstract:
How to negotiate when English is not your first language. Assess needs, bridge the gap.
Study Case: The importance of business communications. Identify parties, assign roles, deliver. Feedback.
William Ury’s "Getting Past No" excepts.
Target Audience: HR people, traders, sales managers, etc.
Time availability: Two 4-hr sessions
Abstract:
How to negotiate when English is not your first language. Assess needs, bridge the gap.
Study Case: The importance of business communications. Identify parties, assign roles, deliver. Feedback.
William Ury’s "Getting Past No" excepts.
LET’S TALK LEADERSHIP
Level: Higher Intermediate through Advanced
Target Audience: managers, supervisors, team leaders, HR people
Time availability: A 4-hr session
Target Audience: managers, supervisors, team leaders, HR people
Time availability: A 4-hr session
Abstract:
Brainstorm ideas about leadership to refresh vocabulary.
Group work: Define and communicate what is leadership for your group?
Discuss principles of personal leadership: Find own leadership stories
Movies (to be decided upon depending on the audience): Apollo 13, Al Pacino’s inspirational speech on Any Given Sunday, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Dead Poet’s Society. Group Discussion
Reading excerpt from R. Giuliani’s book “Leadership”
Brainstorm ideas about leadership to refresh vocabulary.
Group work: Define and communicate what is leadership for your group?
Discuss principles of personal leadership: Find own leadership stories
Movies (to be decided upon depending on the audience): Apollo 13, Al Pacino’s inspirational speech on Any Given Sunday, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Dead Poet’s Society. Group Discussion
Reading excerpt from R. Giuliani’s book “Leadership”
B@sic em@ilwriting
Level: Higher Elementary through Higher Intermediate
Time availability: two 3 ½ hr sessions (minimum)
Target audience: corporate citizens who are starting to write emails in English
Abstract:
Writing effectively or writing for effect?
How much should I write in an email?
Top ten mistakes to avoid when writing emails
Netiquette
The 3 Cs rule: Clear, Concise and Concrete Emails
Punctuation: A signpost to the reader. Review punctuation in English
A journey through the English tenses: Learn basic English collocations and tense sequence
The preposition puzzle: Basic collocations for prepositions of time and place
Write and check in class 30+ contexts
MEETINGS
Level: Intermediate through Advanced
Target Audience: HR people, traders, sales managers, team leaders, etc.
Time availability: Two 4-hr sessions
Abstract:
How to hold effective meetings when English is not your first language.
Formal meetings and informal meetings produce results
Excerpts from “Managing Meetings” by Tom Hindle and “Managing Meetings” by Paul Brown. Reading, terminology, discussion
Language of meetings, review and usefulness
How to express complex and long ideas (revision of sentence structure in English and complex tenses). Connectors (last call to learn to use them!)
The importance of planning ahead. Effective meetings produce results. Discuss. Competing Conversations.
Target Audience: HR people, traders, sales managers, team leaders, etc.
Time availability: Two 4-hr sessions
Abstract:
How to hold effective meetings when English is not your first language.
Formal meetings and informal meetings produce results
Excerpts from “Managing Meetings” by Tom Hindle and “Managing Meetings” by Paul Brown. Reading, terminology, discussion
Language of meetings, review and usefulness
How to express complex and long ideas (revision of sentence structure in English and complex tenses). Connectors (last call to learn to use them!)
The importance of planning ahead. Effective meetings produce results. Discuss. Competing Conversations.
Sharing a meeting: assigning roles, preparation, feedback on delivery.
CONFERENCE CALLS
Level: Intermediate through Advanced
Time availability: Three 2-hr sessions
Abstract
Problem detection
Phrases to ask for repetition and clarification
How to round up ideas
Question making and tag questions revision
Extensive practice on improving listening comprehension
Practice: Simulated conference calls using your students extensions
Time availability: Three 2-hr sessions
Abstract
Problem detection
Phrases to ask for repetition and clarification
How to round up ideas
Question making and tag questions revision
Extensive practice on improving listening comprehension
Practice: Simulated conference calls using your students extensions
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