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Communicating Effectively with Employees With Limited English

Attend this valuable workshop and experience training activities that are being delivered to supervisors and managers of fortune 500 companies.

Participants will learn:

  • Six ground rules for developing openness and understanding in a cross-cultural interaction;
  • Tips for increasing effectiveness in communicating with employees who speak English as a second language;
  • The importance of using simple, understandable language when making oneself understood by a non-native speaker;
  • The importance of asking good questions to check for employee understanding;
  • How to put the seventeen tips into practice;
  • How to assess the English Competency Needs for a particular position; and
  • Ideas for creating opportunities for ongoing language acquisition in the workplace.
Who should attend?

This training is relevant for all staff who is in contact with limited English-speaking participants and/or business customers.

One of the goals for this training is for staff to follow up after this training with giving lunchtime training to managers and supervisors.