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Classes Course
Place:
London
Price:
Duration:
10 Weeks
Start:
26/01/2009 other dates
See course programme
Course objectives:
The course is designed to develop and enhance a student’s ability to communicate clearly and effectively. During the course the student will learn how to: *Communicate effectively, give presentations in a confident and understandable manner. *Deal with a range of non-standard accents e.g. British regional accents, American, Australian etc. *Develop an educated and socially acceptable accent.
| Price |
£249 VAT inc.
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Speaking, Listening & Pronunciation skills for Business English
Below are typical topics and activities that can be covered during the course.
Management
- Talking about good leaders
- Richard Branson, leader of Virgin
Competitive Advantage
- Discussing customer-supplier relationships
- Discussing the 80-20 rule
- The shortcomings of CRM, etc.; A CRM strategy
- How does your company achieve a competitive advantage?
- Pricing
Advertising and sales
- How does your company advertise?
- Cost effective advertising
- How to advertise software
- How do you react to cold-call?
- Finding out about work problems
- Role-play: Cold calling
- Advising on breaking into a new market
- Role play: Making a sales pitch
Finance
- How different elements help to make forecasts
- What make forecasts inaccurate?
- How to prepare a sales forecast
- What type of forecaster do you think you are?
- How sponsorship can promote a company's image
- Role play: Continental Bank and Tate Modern
- Role-play: Negotiating an office lease
The work environment
Role play: Negotiating an agreement
Corporate relationships
- Expanding into foreign markets
- Describing the company you work for
- The advantages of making acquisitions
- Useful hints for making presentations
- Making a presentation
The syllabus does not include grammar for this programme, however you will skim over grammar points throughout the course.
| Where | London, 30 St Mary Axe |
| When | Start: 26/01/2009 Finish: 30/03/2009 See calendar |
| Where | London, 30 St Mary Axe |
| When | Start: 20/04/2009 Finish: 06/07/2009 See calendar |
| Where | London, 30 St Mary Axe |
| When | Start: 20/07/2009 Finish: 28/09/2009 See calendar |
| Where | London, 30 St Mary Axe |
| When | Start: 12/10/2009 Finish: 14/12/2009 See calendar |
