What Are Professional Communication Skills Courses?
Professional Communication Skills Courses help non-native English-speaking employees present, negotiate, write, and lead meetings with clarity and confidence. Designed for managers, engineers, healthcare professionals, and other skilled staff, these courses focus on the high-stakes communication that drives business results.
For more than 20 years, businesses and organizations nationwide have chosen Language Connections to train their international and multilingual professionals. Every course can be delivered as in-person training at your location or online with live instructors, in group or private format. Like all of our programs, each course is customized to your company: your industry, your employees’ English levels, and the real situations they face at work.
Who Are These Courses For?
Companies use our professional skills courses to prepare international hires, promote multilingual employees into leadership roles, and help technical experts communicate with clients, executives, and cross-functional teams. Typical participants include managers and supervisors, engineers and IT specialists, scientists and healthcare professionals, and sales and client-facing staff. For frontline teams, see our industry-specific workplace English courses.
Our Professional Communication Skills Courses
Presentation Skills Course for Non-Native Speakers of English
Using methodologies honed over many years of experience, our teachers put students in the types of language situations they will find in the real world of business. The program replicates the situations MBA students face, and students finish it able to make presentations effectively. For larger audiences, pair it with our Public Speaking Skills Course.
Accent Reduction and Pronunciation Course for Non-native Speakers of English
How to Speak with Confidence
Fine-tune your English with accent modification exercises and techniques that improve pronunciation, intonation, phrasing, and enunciation. Discover how vowel and consonant sounds are made, and practice the flow and rhythm of American English by varying word stress and voice pitch.
Negotiation Skills Course for Non-native Speakers of English
This program helps students communicate effectively in English and develop the skills they need to negotiate successfully as professionals in the United States. Students also fine-tune their English with accent modification exercises that improve pronunciation, intonation, phrasing, and enunciation.
Business English Writing Course for Non-Native Speakers of English
This program helps students integrate key writing skills into their business communication, deepen their understanding of English, and make clear, professional writing part of their daily working lives.
Advanced English Course for Non-Native Speakers of English
Advanced Grammar, Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
This course helps students improve their communication skills for professional and daily life. Students learn to articulate ideas more clearly and confidently, write emails and reports, and strengthen their reading and listening comprehension.
Public Speaking Skills Course for Non-Native Speakers of English
This course builds effective public speaking skills, with attention to pronunciation and rhetorical considerations, impromptu speaking, use of visuals, and managing questions and answers from an audience.
Business English for Meetings Course for Non-native Speakers of English
Make sure your ideas and points are understood! Practice clearly presenting your thoughts and opinions in professional settings such as mock debates, meetings, discussions, and coaching sessions. Learn common English idioms and analogies to be better understood and to support your points.
Effective English Communication Skills Course for Non-Native Speakers of English
This is an all-skills program that integrates grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation, and writing in an engaging, easy-to-use format embraced by students and teachers nationwide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are professional communication skills courses for non-native English speakers?
They are workplace English courses that train skilled employees in presenting, negotiating, writing, public speaking, and leading meetings in English, so they can perform confidently in professional roles.
Can these courses be customized for our company?
Yes. Each course is tailored to your industry, your employees’ English levels, and the specific situations they face, such as client presentations, internal meetings, or written reports.
Are the courses available on-site or online?
Both. We deliver courses onsite at your location nationwide or online with live instructors, in group or private format.
Can courses be combined?
Yes. Many companies combine courses, for example Presentation Skills with Accent Reduction, or Business Writing with Business English for Meetings, to build a complete program for their team.
Language Connections offers group and private classes with content tailored to the needs of your company, at training locations nationwide. See what our clients say, then request a quote for your specific language training. One of our training managers will contact you to discuss your needs.