Group solutions

Truly successful organisations do more than react to the needs of the present moment: they actively seek to create opportunities for development in the future. Providing a wide range of professional development opportunities for your staff is central to maintaining not only employee productivity, but also market share and a healthy bottom-line in today's knowledge and skills hungry economy.

Whether you want to offer in-house courses as part of a general professional development programme for all of your employees, or only train selected departments for specific purposes, group courses are the perfect opportunity to improve both your company's image for customers and suppliers, and the motivation of your employees.

As training budgets are limited and your employees are above all very busy with their work, it is essential to make the most effective use of the resources available to develop your staff: for this reason, most of our corporate clients choose to follow a similar programme which consists of one 90-minute lesson per week. It is your choice whether these weekly lessons take place in the morning before your main working period begins, in the lunch break, or after work in the evening.

Before lessons begin, we complete an oral placement test with all prospective course participants. The results of these tests enable us to recommend how your employees would best be grouped. These initial meetings also function as a needs analysis, and give us an overview of individual language needs according to job responsibilities. This, alongside a similar level of English, has an influence on the division of the groups. For example, separate courses can be offered for the marketing department or the controlling department.

We then discuss the final organisational matters - course length, lesson times and technical aspects – with you individually. Our highest priority is ensuring that the arrangements we reach together make best use of your resources in developing your staff and their ability to perform their jobs in an international marketplace, using English as a powerful lingua franca.