Corporate English training for farmers creates understanding and trust. Both within your crew itself, and between your farmhands and your customer base. For farming and agricultural industries, most on-the-job accidents involve heavy equipment and/or a miscommunication in direction. By providing private English training for farmers, your farm or food production company can avoid hefty fines over avoidable injuries. Because the reality is that most farming accidents are avoidable. The bottom line is this: if your farm hands cannot understand what you need them to do in a high-risk environment, you increase the likelihood of an on-the-job accident by 30%. Corporate English training for farmers and agricultural industries addresses communication problems at the root. So why not avoid that headache in the very beginning? Instead of paying for expensive lawsuits you can invest that money to improve your marketing, farm equipment or any other business expense.
OUR corporate English training for farmers helps family owned businesses like yours address language barriers before they become a language problem
According to the most recently available National Agricultural Workers Survey from 2021, approximately 80% of migrant and seasonal crop workers report Hispanic or Latino descent. Yet, because official surveys and forms are predominantly conducted in English, non-English-speaking producers frequently miss out on critical financial programs. What is even more harmful, is that despite the 690 agricultural handbooks printed throughout its history, nearly all of them are written in English. So when 75% of these workers cite language barriers as a legitimate cause of injury at work, the data itself only highlights the incredible data and language gaps that exist in the farming and agricultural industries.
What makes our corporate English training different from other providers?
Our corporate English training programs are customized to your business and your workers. The tailored curriculum hyper focuses on the actual language used in your business and industry. While simultaneously targeting the language barriers that your unique workforce struggles with. Which more often than not means: better results, delivered in a shorter time frame because we teach everything you need, and nothing you don't.
Your schedule is busy. Your landscaping workers have filled schedules inside and outside of working hours. Where do you fit in English language training for employees? Our difference lies in the variety of scheduling options that makes attending class more realistic for your workers. Your team can choose between our virtual classroom, or we can even come to your home base!
We believe true understanding comes from asking questions, and true improvement comes with feedback. Both of which are hallmarks of traditional, in-person learning. Our virtual classroom provides the highest quality online learning experience available on the market because we combine the convenience of remote learning with the quality of in-person instructors.
Most competitors provide test scores and attendance as proof of understanding. We go above and far beyond this standard. With regular assessments and performance reports, we put you in the drivers seat. If certain subjects are coming easier to your cohort you can speed up our pacing and we can simply move on. Likewise, if cohort assessments demonstrate that more time is needed, we can adjust pacing according to understanding to maximize the value per dollar you are spending.
Allowing you to make changes to your corporate English training curriculum means that you are guaranteed to see improvements you need to see. We send you progress reports and allow you to decide on pacing. We provide exceptional results because our expert instructors teach the subjects you need, at a level and pace best suited to worker understanding.
Here's what you get:
- Initial Consultation and Goal Setting: We begin by meeting with your HR and department heads to identify your primary objectives. Are you looking to reduce workplace accidents? Do you need to improve customer satisfaction scores? Defining these Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) allows us to align our training with your business strategy.
- Job-Task Analysis: Our instructional designers conduct a deep dive into the daily tasks of your employees. We review internal documents, safety manuals, and standard operating procedures (SOPs). By understanding the specific "language of the job," we identify the exact vocabulary and grammatical structures your team uses most frequently.
- Proficiency Benchmarking: We perform a free placement test for each participant. This assessment evaluates their current speaking, listening, reading, and writing levels. We then group employees by proficiency to ensure the pace of the course is challenging yet achievable for everyone.
- Custom Curriculum Design: Based on our findings, we develop a bespoke training module. For an IT firm, this might include "Presenting Technical Data." For a construction company, it might focus on "Reporting Site Hazards." This targeted approach ensures that every hour spent in training translates directly to better performance on the job.
- Improved Safety: Language barriers are a leading cause of workplace injuries. Our training ensures everyone understands safety briefings and emergency procedures.
- Increased Efficiency: Clear instructions mean fewer mistakes and less time spent on rework. When your team speaks the same language, projects move faster.
- Employee Retention: Investing in your workforce’s professional development boosts morale. Employees who feel supported by their company are more likely to stay, reducing turnover costs.
- Competitive Advantage: A bilingual or multilingual workforce allows your company to expand into new markets and better serve a diverse customer base.
Our customized spoken English training for farmers can include:
- Professional English skills trainings for workers such as: writing professional emails, answering telephone calls at your home base, how to de-escalate conversations, spoken English customer service trainings, invoicing and much, much more.
- OSHA safety trainings in English, for your Spanish speaking landscaping workers
- Concurrent language trainings if you need some employees learning English and others learning Spanish at the same time.
- and much, much more!
DID you know? We can help you apply to secure grant funding for our language training!
Our ESL courses for landscapers are offered nationwide and prepare your workers to enhance their understanding of English language and operate in a safer and more productive way.
English for manufacturing develops skills that go further than just English, as your workers will feel more confident in communicating and working in your community.
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For more information contact our Language Training Department:
Phone: (617) 731-3700
Email: training@languageconnections.com