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Date |
Week No. |
Date |
| 10 | 3 - 7 March | 29 | 14 - 18 July |
| 19 | 5 - 9 May | 47 | 17 - 21 November |
Participants
This course is aimed at personnel managers working in an international business environment
who need to improve their communication skills in English.
Objectives
This course aims to improve language knowledge and communication skills around HR issues. The following three areas form the core of this training course.
1. Professional communication skills
Participants will develop their ability to present, participate in meetings and negotiate HR topics. The training programme will include both language input and detailed feedback on individual performance.
The group will have two counterpart meetings with UK personnel managers.
2. Specialist HR vocabulary
Most participants want to develop their general confidence and fluency when speaking English for HR purposes. The training programme will use HR case studies to create lots of opportunities for speaking about HR topics in order to develop fluency and increase command of specialist HR vocabulary. Typical topics include:
- planning
- assessment
- benefits and compensation
- employee relations
- development of a personnel strategy
- implementation of cultural change and improvement
- recruitment and assessment of personnel
3. General language skills
Input on general English and grammar (as required) will enable participants to speak more accurately and improve their social English.
Materials
We will be using our own publications - Key Terms in People Management (Steve Flinders, York Associates 1999) and Business Management English: Personnel (Nick Brieger & Jeremy Comfort,
Prentice Hall 1992)
Timetable
This course is 30 hours per week with the working day structured from 09.00 to 17.00 as follows:
Timetable |
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1 |
09.00 – 10.30 |
Coffee |
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2 |
10.45 – 12.15 |
Lunch (with trainer) |
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3 |
13.45 – 15.15 |
Coffee |
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4 |
15.30 – 17.00 |
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Evening (optional homework / social activity) |
Evening activities
At least two events will be arranged, either an evening dinner, sports activity, theatre, live music, countryside tour etc. This is optional and y ou are free to have dinner with your host family each evening (subject to availability) if you wish.
Tuition fee |
£955 (€1412) |
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Accommodation |
£36.50 (€54) |
per night for host family accommodation (inclusive of breakfast and evening meal). Hotel rates available on request. |
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