Tailor-made Workshops

Tailor-made Workshops

Daily business is becoming increasingly international for employees at all organisational levels. Drafting reports, writing clear, professional emails and minutes of meetings, participating in virtual meetings, and presenting ideas and concepts are all increasingly expected in English. However, in order to express themselves confidently in English, many employees often need more preparation and processing time than they would like.

Our tip: Provide your team with a "Support Package" for communication in English - tailored precisely to the participants' communication and language requirements, including the most important key terms and formulations in their respective business areas.

Our complete workshop package includes modular workshops that are tailored to the exact needs of individual departments. In each module, our communication trainers work with participants to develop the necessary communication skills and a practical glossary of the vocabulary relevant to each department. 
The tailor-made workshops are available in English and German.

Contact
Telephone: 040 46 88 22 47
Email: info@intercom-language.de

Business English Downloads

 

Workshop Combination

Combine the following workshops with each other, for example. Further combinations can be found here.

Half-day workshops:

Professional Writing: Contracts, Reports, Minutes

Contents:

  • Register & Style: Levels of formality
  • Formal long format writing: Contracts, Reports, Minutes
  • Clear and concise chat and emails
  • Accuracy in written English
  • Practical writing practice
  • Techniques for capturing the essentials
  • Standard formulations
  • Development of department-specific formulations as a glossary
All-day workshops:

Virtual Meetings

Contents:

  • Opening a virtual meeting, introducing yourself, setting objectives
  • Explaining the basic rules of the call
  • Actively participating in the conversation 
  • Overcoming communication difficulties
  • Leading virtual meetings
  • Maintaining the focus of the conversation
  • Wrapping up: Concluding calls
All-day workshops:

Writing English Emails

Contents:

  • Opening and closing emails
  • Different writing styles: formal and informal formulation
  • Structuring your message: BLUF (bottom line up front)
    • asking for information
    • confirming agreements
    • arranging appointments
    • communicating content precisely and asking questions
    • explaining facts in detail
  • Conveying bad news
  • Ensuring deadlines are met
  • Using idioms and sentence constructions to effect 
  • Sample sentences to make messages in English more varied
  • Glossary of important phrases for emails
All-day workshops:

Presentations

Contents:

  • Planning and structuring a presentation
  • Visualization techniques
  • Practicing idioms and helpful sentence constructions in English in order to
    • emphasize the beginning and end of a presentation
    • achieve a recognizable sequence
    • formulate and defend points of view clearly and concisely
    • convey information without reading from the screen
    • design varied transitions.
  • Mastering difficult situations in a foreign language:
    • respond confidently to interposed questions and objections
    • deal with conflicts and breakdowns
    • leading back to the topic
  • Nuanced use of English language
  • Glossary of important phrases for presentations

Good to know

  • We recommend our free online short test to determine the respective language level of the participants in advance.
  • On request, individual participant certificates can be issued after successful participation in the workshops.