Language training English: Speak & Skill

In this training, you will learn to apply the English language jargon of the financial world in practice in various situations:

• meeting;
• presenting;
• argumentation.

You’re embarking on a multifaceted process with a mix of individual or group coaching, field missions, and self-study.

Doelgroep

The course can be taken by anyone who regularly uses English in a financial context.

Vereiste voorkennis

This course is only open to those with a language level of at least B1 (50). Candidate participants will be asked to take an online language test.

Programma

CONTENT

Week 1 (duration 45 minutes)

• Individual intake interview 

Week 2 (duration 4 hours web conference and 45 minute online coaching)

• Online training in group via web conference
  • Instructions : Meetings, Presentations, Argumentations
    • Announce agenda
    • Format a structure
    • Summarise the targets and key messages
    • Establish your voice/tone
• Individual online coaching

Week 3  (duration 4 hours web conference and 45 minute online coaching)

• Online training in group via web conference
  • Realize a structure and link ideas
    • Give a presentation
    • Lead a meeting
    • Provide arguments
    • Agree/disagree
    • Justify
• Individual online coaching

Week 4  (duration 4 hours web conference and 45 minute online coaching)

• Online conclude + Q&A in group via web conference
  • Summarize main points
  • Hypotheses/alternatives/suggestions
  • Ask and answer questions
  • Manage speaking time
  • Handle audiences
  • Evaluate success
• Individual online wrap up 
  • Competence test
  • Reports
  • Individual feedback
  • Additional practice

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

• Duration: intake interview (45 minutes) + 3 x ½ day of training (4 class hours) + 3 x individual coaching (45 minutes)
• Hours: 09:00 to 13:00 + individual sessions to be determined in agreement with lecturer
• This training will be given online.
• Language: This training will be given in English
• Additional information: The trainer will contact you to determine the exact hour of the intake in week 1.  All participants will keep the planned morning free until then. How to get started? Our partner organisation Atolo will send you via email a link to connect to the classes.

• Educational video recording: During the course, the trainer may record videos for educational purposes. You have the right to decline being recorded. All videos will be promptly deleted after the course to ensure privacy. Your comfort and privacy are our priority. Feel free to reach out with any questions regarding video recording. We aim to provide a safe and respectful learning environment for all participants.

Methodologie

You follow a ‘Live webinar’ digitally in a group. It is ‘learning-apart-together’. At an agreed time, the teacher and participants log in to a video conference tool, each from his or her own location and with his or her own computer. Via this tool’s camera, microphone and chat function, there is an opportunity for interaction and feedback, both from the participants to the teacher and vice versa. The teaching material consists as a basis of a presentation via the MyFA learning platform, supplemented with various other items (such as digital syllabus, presentation, audiovisual fragments, etc.).

Docenten

Kira Elieth Phillips
Personal development