Business skills
16 academic hours
Intensive training in English
What you will learn:
1. Increase your confidence in negotiations, presentations and business meetings in English.
2. Learn and implement main set phrases, used in business communication.
3. Get live experience of negotiating, presenting and networking.
Who this training is for:
- You need to refresh your knowledge and skills of business communication (presenting, negotiating, meeting, networking);
- Your career is closely connected to communication in English;
- You want to spend quality time in a fun way.
Level
The nearest date of the event
Format of training
- online (zoom) – 4 days 4 academic hours/day
- face-to-face – 2 days 8 academic hours/day
TRAINERS
Alena Petrova
English language trainer and instructor, certified ESL trainer, CELTA and TESOL tutor, holder of CELTA, CAM and DELTA, designer of ESL materials, trainings and a tailor-made learning English, and co-founder of the language training center Lingua LOFT.
My students are adults aged 20 – 60 of various levels and backgrounds. I have worked with students from Russia, China, Serbia, Turkey and Bulgaria, lived and worked in the USA
Ekaterina Kudryavtseva
English language trainer and instructor, psychologist and coach. More than 11 years of experience of teaching and 4 years of counselling and coaching. CELTA and CAM holder.
I got educated in London and Oxford. I am the author of an English learning programme applying coaching tools, designer and tutor of psychological trainings, and co-founder of the language training center Lingua LOFT.
ABOUT THE TRAINING
The training is based on the snowball principle
Every task gives learners more theory and practice enabling them to apply their linguistic and business skills.
The level of tasks constantly grows
The tasks become more and more challenging and authentic.
Grammar and vocabulary
The focus is on lexis and functional language.
Working out all language skills in each lesson
Speaking, listening, reading and writing. The focus is on speaking and listening.
Practice and production
Practice without lectures and theory. Listeners are constantly talking, discussing, listening and playing.
PROGRAMME
Module 1
4 academic hours
Presentation skills
How to start a presentation, analyze the audience, use visuals, summarise, and use rhetorical techniques.
Module 2
4 academic hours
Negotiation Skills
Stages of negotiations, strategies and tactics, language of negotiations (lexical sets and functional language), 5 role-plays.
Module 3
4 academic hours
Meeting
Clarifying, interrupting, checking understanding, asking for clarification, specifying, conflict management, brainstorming, 6 role-plays.
Module 4
4 academic hours
Networking
How to start and finish a conversation, taboo topics, active listening, 4 skill-aimed games, 5 role-plays.