International Meetings In English

Intercultural & Business Language Course
Published 2/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 1.14 GB | Duration: 1h 33m

What you’ll learn
Navigate cultural differences during first meetings
Strategies for staying on track when you don’t understand
Become more present and more assertive at the international conference table
Build more successful relationships with your international partners
Requirements
This course is for participants who already have intermediate English ability
Description
This course is intended primarily for non-native speakers of English who are starting to work internationally particularly with native speakers of English. It is also aimed at professionals who have recently moved into international roles but are struggling to perform as successfully as they have always done in their own culture and language.It is a business language and intercultural awareness course combined. It covers not only the actual communication skills needed inside the international meeting but also the key interpersonal skills required around the meeting to introduce yourself and build rapport with new colleagues from other countries.Each of the lectures is followed by a set of questions which check the topics explored in the videos but also help to explore some of them in more depth.The author and instructor has been advising and training professionals working on an international level for quite a number of years mostly in western Europe and the lessons are based on his own experience and feedback from colleagues and clients.The content aims to prepare you to be successful both as the leader and the participant of a meeting covering all of the most vulnerable issues of communication that may arise when teams of professionals from different cultures sit around the conference table with a common task.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 About this Course
Section 2: Before the meeting starts
Lecture 2 Introducing yourself and others
Section 3: What to do when you don’t understand
Lecture 3 When you don’t understand
Section 4: Building Rapport
Lecture 4 Chatting & building rapport
Section 5: Leading the Meeting
Lecture 5 Getting the meeting started
Lecture 6 Delegating tasks
Section 6: Getting into the Discussion
Lecture 7 Active listening & getting your say
Lecture 8 Expressing your opinion
Section 7: Interruption
Lecture 9 Interruption
Section 8: Disagreement & feedback
Lecture 10 Feedback & Diagreement
Section 9: Concluding
Lecture 11 Concluding
Section 10: Summary
Lecture 12 Summary
If you as a business person have never lived/worked in an English-speaking country and therefore feel a little insecure and less assertive at your international meetings, this mini-course is designed to help you. It goes from intercultural and linguistic problems professionals typically encounter all the way through to getting your say at the conference table and interrupting and disagreeing politely. The course is a combination of business-English skills and crucially important cultural knowledge. While the course focuses mostly on the language and communication culture of Britain/Ireland, it aims to enable professionals to communicate more successfully in business on a global level. The trainer for this course has been coaching senior managers in global companies for the past twenty years.

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