What is the Workforce Language Training Fund Program?

Workforce language training is an investment in your people, and your company's future. When your small to mid-sized company applies for- and qualifies- for the workforce language training fund, you are able to provide higher quality English language training at a reduced cost.

For over 20 years, we have been providing a superior quality of corporate English language training to companies with a multilingual workforce. Our language training is 100% customizable to your industry and to your ESL employees specific roles. With the workforce language training fund assistance, we help your ESL employees (who speak English as a Second Language) communicate more easily at work with our high-quality English language training programs. Paid in part, with this grant funding, allows your revenue to be spent for other endeavors. Here's how it works:

Workforce language training starts here:

1. Evaluate your needs and goals: In order to help you, we have to understand what your problems are. The more information you can gather about the problems the quicker we can resolve them. Answering questions like the below can get you started:

• What language barriers are your ESL employees having at work? (such as phone etiquette, writing emails, pronunciation etc)
• Are there any relevant professional language skills we should address? (Do your customer service workers struggle to explain an invoice? Do your manufacturing workers have issues with operating a forklift?)
• What languages are your employees fluent in?

2. Contact us for a free quote: Once we have an idea of what your needs are as a business, we can focus on what your employees need.

• Once we understand your struggles, we will then begin language testing your employees' current language proficiency.
• We will then create a language support plan that we will use for your program.

3. Apply for the grant: We will help you apply, and let you know if your company qualifies.

4. Receive funding assistance: Businesses that qualify for grant assistance receive financial support.

5. Customize our curriculum: there are an infinite number of ways that we deliver a custom language training program. Designed specifically for your company, your industry and your employees in mind. Some examples of customizing a curriculum include:

• writing professional emails, customer service phone etiquette, invoicing and much, much more.
• OSHA safety trainings and vocabulary
• any industry, company or job specific terminology. Including words, phrases or terms that are essential to your business, that wouldn't be taught in your standard ESL course.
• we can even arrange to teach some employees English while teaching others Spanish. We refer to this structure as concurrent language training. As both classes are running simultaneously, yet independent of each other.

Our difference:

With numerous ways to tailor our courses, we offer a high quality learning experience that is truly unparalleled. We only succeed if your employees meet your language training standards and goals. Which can only happen if we remain focused on the feedback we get from your leaders.

Our remote classrooms take place through video chat webinar sessions. Which ensures that learning remains accessible anywhere there is internet connection. Our expert instructors meet your associates where they are at and deliver appropriate yet challenging curriculum, which you help us to create. So that no matter what, your needs are met even if you need to change them.

Moreover, we understand that learning English isn't a one-size-fits-all experience. Which is what you will most likely receive elsewhere. We also provide routine progress reports which allows you to monitor ESL improvement, and make adjustments where you see fit.

Who can apply for workforce language training assistance?

Financial grant assistance is available to all small to mid-size companies looking to improve workplace communication for their ESL employees. Whether you operate in the manufacturing, healthcare or construction industry, why not see if you qualify for the workforce language training grant for your ESL employees?

Language Connections offers group and private classes with content tailored to the needs of your company. Request a quote to receive a quote for your specific language training. One of our training managers will then contact you to discuss your language training needs.

For more information contact our Language Training Department:
Phone: (617) 731-3700
Email: training@languageconnections.com