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Customized Corporate Language Training & Why It Works

Customized corporate language training is designed around your specific needs for your company and associates. By encouraging your leaders and decision makers to customize our curriculum, we put the power back in your hands. Because ultimately, our corporate language training can address any pain points your business needs it to. For construction companies, it could look like including OSHA safety trainings into a business ESL program (that teaches English as a Second Language). Where hyper-specific, work-related terminology and procedures are the vocabulary. Rather than the standardized, "run-of-the-mill" experience you find with typical online English training. To be fair, there are some advantages to those other English training courses. For one, they come at a cheaper cost, so if saving capital is your ultimate motivator you should use another provider for your language training needs. But when you can get a superior product that could potentially be free (with an English language training grant), why would you choose anything else?
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Workforce English Training for Manufacturers Is Essential In 3 States

Workforce English training is an important element of onboarding that business owners should not overlook. When approximately 67% of the U.S manufacturing workforce speaks Spanish as a primary or secondary language; deciding whether or not to offer workforce English training should be an easy one. This is an industry where working with heavy machinery, and operating dangerous equipment is a requirement for the job. If your workers have a hard time understanding you and vice versa misunderstandings become more frequent, and accidents start happening at work. In 2020 OSHA stated that language barriers are a factor in 25% of all workplace accidents. If factory owners could avoid even 10% of accidents by providing language training for workers hundreds of millions of dollars could be spent somewhere other than paying off lawsuits and what workers comp requires. But who are these workers, and where are they working? How can English training for companies help everyone in your factory?
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