Language training for bilingual professionals is specifically designed to train your ESL employees how to communicate more effectively in your workplace. Maybe you have an office overseas, or maybe you have some ESL workers at your home location who need to improve specific skills for their role or daily tasks. At Language Connections we provide customized English training solutions, entirely based on your specific needs and unique worker challenges. In fact, we have been developing custom employee language training programs for over 20 years. One common way to tailor our remote business English training course is by emphasizing business meeting specific professional skills trainings.
Professional skills trainings for bilingual professionals is far from a standard English training program. Firstly, because we acknowledge your business objectives for needing our trainings in the first place. Secondly, we provide you with a comprehensive ESL course that is built around your individual business needs. But most importantly of all, we center your actual people and their learning requirements. All of which is conducted through our LIVE video chat classrooms. In simpler terms, our online language training centers your individual people, while remaining focused on your business motivations.
How to get bilingual professionals to communicate more during meetings?
This is a question many business owners and decision makers frequently ask. And while the answer is not simple, the basic principle is confidence.
At some point in a career, almost everyone in any workplace worries about the impact of mistakes. Everyone makes them eventually because at the end of the day, no one is perfect. But having to overcome language barriers can add more difficulty that managers may not even be aware of. In the worst case it can negatively affect worker performance. Some objectives professional meeting skills trainings can accomplish are:
- Preparing for meetings including when and how to call a meeting, writing professional agendas, allocating meeting roles (timekeeper etc), sending follow-up notes and more
- Essential meeting vocabulary that explains frequently heard terminology that ESL learners may have never heard before
- Opening a meeting and how to set expectations which includes: stating objectives, small talk, roll call, time and role delegation etc
- Expressing opinions and when it is appropriate to do so. Framing questions, including tone and what phrasing, plus how to point out whether something was missed without coming across as rude
- How to disagree without coming across as disrespectful is absolutely a skill, and how to find the confidence to do so appropriately
- How to follow the agenda and ensure that people stay on track is a skill as well. When running a meeting during working hours, it is especially important to ensure that tangents and distractions are kept to a minimum. But for ESL workers, it can be especially difficult if they do not know how to do so without offending
- Closing a meeting which involves recapping discussions, designating people to carry out action items, when to expect essential notes etc
Other ways we can improve language skills for your bilingual professionals include:
- Enhancing active listening and comprehension for the workplace
- How to improve business negotiation skills for an ESL workspace
- Create understanding by emphasizing accent clarity and pronunciation
- Deliver better customer service with professional phone etiquette training
- Business writing which includes writing professional emails, written memos, drafting documents or proposals etc
- Cultural competence and diversity awareness trainings
- Leadership communication trainings that will help ESL employees be more confident communicating to leadership and vice versa
- Professional public speaking helps ESL associates become more confident giving presentations or leading conferences
Learn more about our business language training services for bilingual professionals:
- Client testimonial: hear what a former client had to say about our Business English training services.
- Course duration: there is no simple answer but all English courses for companies follow a general formula.
- Tracking progress: learn how we assess employee ESL progression in our courses.
- Accessing public grant funding: did you know that there is publicly available grant funds that can finance your workforce language training program?
Our interactive and engaging In-Person and Online Corporate Language Training provides English Classes for Companies online and on-site with live highly qualified native-speaking language instructors. We offer Real-Time Private and Group Corporate English Language Training. Get a Free Quote for your Industry Specific Onsite or Online Corporate English Training for employees.
