Tailor-made programmes for your specific requirements

Business language programmes are fully tailor-made to the employee's specific needs - the methodologies used take into account different learning objectives and scheduling demands. 

Communication

Negotiation

Ignoring corporate and national cultures can wreck international projects: knowing them raises your chances of success. Let's Talk Lingo creates courses that focus on different topics such as:

• using humour carefully,
• direct/indirect and explicit/implicit communication
• Same word, different meaning
• Countries company structures

Negotiations run all through business.
Let's Talk Lingo focuses on all phases of negotiating - international negotiating styles, the importance of relationship building, bargaining styles, and outcome expectations - and what to say to help  reach satisfying agreements – words, phrases, sentences and when to use silence.
The  programme will discuss the most common business negotiating mistakes that easily sabotage goals and how to replace them with effective communication tools.  
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Business Writing

In a digital world, business,  from the initial contact to closing the deal,  is often handled on-line.  
In this component, the program covers the essentials of business and technical writing for emails, memos and meeting minutes by:

• ​getting the reader’s attention in the first line of the email
• ​setting the right tone, casual or formal (when to use Dear, Hello, Hi and end with Sincerely, Regards or Best)
• ​mastering the mechanics of punctuation 
• ​writing for the reader: what does the reader need to know?
• ​aiming for conciseness: replace long, wordy texts with short, sharp bullet points

Presentations

Success in today’s corporate world means knowing how to give clear, confident and convincing presentations.   
In our programmes we teach how to best develop presentations based on the audience’s needs and cultural backgrounds.
Let's Talk Lingo will help:

•  organise talks for maximum impact
• write clear visuals that deliver the message and how many points to include 

•  use correct ,simple, concrete English that keeps the audience’s interest

Employees will practice presentations and follow their progress on video to make sure their  body language, and visual language have the strongest impact.  

Business Meetings

Frequently, business language knowledge lacks the strength to influence and impact discussions at meetings: where to invest, how to implement, why to cut losses  – all in order to succeed in today’s competitive market.
​Through active discussions of real business issues using our communication strategies, employees will practice on:

• moving from request to require
• expressing opinions effectively
• disagreeing in a polite and appropriate manner
• giving feedback - rejecting feedback
• proposing a plan - pitching an alternative
• listening

 

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