Corporate language classes can be customized to suit your individual business needs. By allowing your business leaders and decision makers to customize our curriculum, we ensure that you will see more improvement than you would with traditional corporate language classes. Many of which cannot be customized. Our approach centers your actual employees, who will begin at different levels of understanding, and learn at different paces. All the while, remaining focused on your specific business objectives. Customize our business language courses to suit your specific industry, or tailored to your employees specific role in your company. For example, our curriculum can be modified to highlight specific professional skills like business writing or public speaking. We have talked a lot of those customizations, but do you know about concurrent language courses?
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Corporate Language Training Takes Businesses To A New Level
Corporate language training is a tool that more businesses should utilize, regardless of industry. Especially since most businesses face communication-based problems, you would expect corporate English training to be more common. In the literal sense, these "communication-based problems" can refer to anything from business writing for ESL associates, to improving pronunciation and speaking skills and everything in between. Because these are the ways in which we actually communicate...like reading, writing, and speaking. Other communication-based problems in the workplace center around misinterpretations of wording, or there could even be an underlying, interpersonal issue such as cultural competence that needs to be resolved for effective communication to ensue.
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English For The Construction Industry Is About Safety
English for the construction industry is about more than creating mutual understanding. Which is vitally important in any industry. The desire for understanding and to be understood is a basic human instinct, and there is no minimizing that. When we are talking specifically about the construction industry, English training is primarily about safety.
According to the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) - one of the U.S. construction industry's trade associations - immigrant workers account for nearly 25% of the entire construction workforce, and average 30% of all construction trades. Additionally, a 2019 report from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) shows that the construction industry has the largest gap between skilled workers who speak English as a Second Language (ESL) and managers who can speak those languages. And the gap has been widening ever since.
For those who own or manage a construction business, ensuring that your worksite and workers remain safe is a top priority. Making Rosetta Stone part of your onboarding experience can definitely help to reduce language barriers, but it doesn't necessarily always translate to the particulars of a day-to-day construction job... because they don't go far enough. That's where we come in.
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The Safety Question: English Courses for Warehouse and Shipping Facilities
English courses for construction workers increase safety. But what does “safety” really mean? When people understand each other, you can prevent mistakes before they occur. You can also mitigate outcomes when circumstances go awry. Prioritizing safety is a clear reason to provide safety training with English courses for warehouse and shipping facilities.
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