New Year 2013 Brings New Outset & Experiences Ahead

We wish you with a rewarding wisdom, achievable ambitions, fun-filled experiences and advancements in the Year of 2013. 

At Ideas N Conversations, we enable one’s ability in leading, by using Advanced Business English and Business Technical Proficiency for effective communication in either business or personal use. The skills that every Learner gains will increase opportunities for success.

In 2013, you can upgrade your skills and competencies through various practical lessons that will increase your ability to perform efficiently in order to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Christmas Rekindles the Spirit of Kindness Among Humanity

Advanced Business English that Results to Leadership Competencies

"The power of innovative thinking, critical reasoning, communicating affectively and learning new insights enable us to connect with others throughout our lives. The skills are intangible to many but these are the competencies that will make us adequately communicative as human beings."

Facts: 
Our Researches show that there is a growing deficiency in the area of Advanced Business English Competency among individuals who are leading teams, communicating extensively to external parties outside a given organization, cannot explain or sustain effective communicative proficiency when speaking with an audience, notwithstanding that a bigger population of Expats deployed in many English speaking countries cannot demonstrate adequate competencies in Business English as a business language.  58 percent up to 71 percent range of internationally deployed workforce have acknowledged their handicap is on Business English Skills in Advanced Level to support the demand and communication requirements of their jobs. 

Innovative Goals:
Among the workforce of multi-national organizations from other countries, who migrated to the United States and other English-speaking countries needed extra efforts in exploiting their inabilities of articulating their ideas with their co-workers. To increase the needed level of proficiency, one must register in Advanced Business English Class, Coaching or Workshop that will enable usable techniques and skills of being a leader at a given work setting.

Limitations Prohibit Career Advancement:
While there is an enormous desire to increase one's competencies in Advanced Business English after arrival at their new environment. Majority have failed in making strategic decisions to learn effectively. Instead, they enrolled in traditional ESL Classrooms and centers that provided those Generic ESL Lessons and did not develop their business technical English competencies.

Reasons Why ESL Lessons are Incorrect:
Item	Description
1	ESL Class does not provide the development of Advanced Business English Competencies
2	Many ESL Teachers were not trained to teach or coach Advanced Business English Curriculum for Leadership Candidates within the business environments
3	Many ESL Teachers did not have actual business experiences working in various industries and corporate settings that require business acumen integrating technologies and language
4	Advanced Business English is a linguistic specialty that is only acquired through the help of experienced Adult Coach who has been immersed to various industries and cultural settings
5	The competencies acquired through the specialized curricula or workshops can be used immediately at learner's environment because the sessions were created based on their “Summary of Identified DifficultiesSM”
6	The Coach in Advanced Business English demonstrates multi-linguistic competencies that are relevant to business focus; leverages success at targeted specific business sector of the learner

Program Brief Summary:

The Advanced Business English for Effective Communication Program is designed to increase the proficiency and competency of any individual who aspire to demonstrate leadership and communication competencies by learning many essential factors that create effectiveness within the business community in an advanced level. It provides relevant, action oriented, results driven, learning experiences that are applicable in any business setting, relationships and transactions. Session-based Modular Lessons are created based on “Summary of Identified Difficulties^SM” from individuals pursuing a career advancement.

Methodologies:
Our experienced Coaches / Trainers / Tutors will use techniques that overcome the identified difficulties of the Learner. These various learning approaches will validate results through interactive, effective, easy-to-experience and realistic impact to identified difficulties. Activities will change progressively in order to support the in-progress level of proficiency which results to demonstrable skills and effectiveness.

Overview of Scope:
Item	Description
1	Understanding which mechanisms illustrate effective speech in speaking
2	Business Language Structures that demonstrate results
3	Techniques in communicating that articulate results at work
4	Engaging effective conversations with critical and persuasive thinking
5	Modifying enunciations that are relevant to listeners and specific audience
6	Sensible speaking that are driven with meaningful ideas

(Note: Specific sessions are customized to the identified level of difficulties)

Components:

Twelve Modular Sessions of two hours each

Intensive Program Participation

Continuing Progress Proficiency Evaluation

Competency Demonstration + COC

Benefits from completing this program: Learner will achieve the following;
Item	Descriptions
1	An Advanced Proficiency Level in Effective Business English and Communication
2	Handy techniques in speaking affectively as a Leader
3	Better communication skills that articulate ideas toward any audience

For more details and inquiries please call +1 (650) 241-3207. Please note that Classes of Ideas N Conversations are being held in 7 Bay Area locations; Campbell, Cupertino, Milpitas, Palo Alto, San Jose, San Mateo and Sunnyvale. It is a matter of choosing the closest to your location.

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In Memory of the Massacre Victims at the Sandy Hook Elementary School

Ideas N Conversations shares the griefs of all families, who lost their children and family member. The void of their absence cannot be filled forever.  

"So our hearts are broken today -- for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these little children, and for the families of the adults who were lost.  Our hearts are broken for the parents of the survivors as well, for as blessed as they are to have their children home tonight, they know that their children’s innocence has been torn away from them too early, and there are no words that will ease their pain." -said  President Obama

Presidential Proclamation:
Honoring the Victims of the Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut

Conversational Communication Challenges Can Be Resolved with Bold Decision

"Many hear the sounds of enunciated words and phrases influenced heavily by the mother tongue instead of listening to the meaningful essence of what is being communicated." - Terrenal 

Here is a personal question for yourself.

Is any of the following illustrated my inabilities, deficiencies or frustrations today or may be in the past?

• I have poor verbal and written communication skills
• Inability to articulate myself to my peers at work and outside work because I do not speak the English language well
• I am a Team Leader but has issues in communicating verbally and effectively with my team members
• I cannot advanced myself in my career as I felt my communication skills are not proficient
• I lack leadership skills and wanted to accomplish more results
• I always find myself below par when engaged in conversational topics with friends
• I have been to numerous interviews but cannot land the job due to my communication skills and conversational inabilities
• When explaining something to others I was always searching for the right words or phrases
• Speaking in front of others is always been my problem, I always read my powerpoint line by line when I present and cannot articulate additional information that were not listed in the presentation
• At numerous occasions, I've been tasked to relate with Excel Spreadsheets but don't have any knowledge of using it
• I went to school and learned English but I cannot express myself conversationally like other English speakers, however I can write my ideas well
• I have been living in the United States for few years but still cannot speak English well, I have also attended many ESL classes at various centers
• I am new in the area and working for a technology company, however my English is very limited

What can you do?

For someone who experienced any of the above listed 'facts', that were frustrating conversational issues, difficulties of demonstrating communicative efficiency with team members, co-workers, with friends and acquaintances. It is highly suggested to give oneself a new personal development and gain better competency, achieve more progress in the near future and be BOLD.

It is also a fact, that there are many (individuals or organizations) that discriminate those who do not communicate well. "Many hear the sound of enunciated words and phrases influenced heavily by the mother tongue instead of listening to the meaningful essence of what is being communicated." - said  J. Terrenal. 

To remedy those challenges, learn the real Conversational English Competency through the help of an experienced Coach in Communication, Linguistics, Business and Leadership. This type of Coach integrates the whole self of the learner's backgrounds, difficulties and future endeavors for success.

We like to hear your experiences and thoughts. Please share them to us and we always appreciate your inputs. Thank you.

Advancing Competencies with Learning Workshops in 2013 - Registration is Now Open

The Year 2012 is about to conclude. What assessments do you have about your proficiency and competencies this year? Have you made a list of your Challenges and Difficulties at work or at a personal level?

In order to make necessary adjustments to any of your acknowledged deficiency, consider any of the Session Workshops for the Year 2013 from Ideas N Conversations. Speak with their Specialist Trainer to fully determine your difficulties and how to improve them dramatically for better success in the future.

Our Programs are now accepting Registrants.

Register Now at the location that is closest to you ~

Classes will begin in January 2013. For maximum learning impact, seating is limited in each location.

For more details and Registration at any specific location please call +1 (650) 241-3207. Please note that when a particular class is already full, you will be encouraged to join at another nearby location or you will be put to the next class that will open at your selected location.

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When you email us with your inquiries, please avoid going to a 'Spam box and be auto-deleted'. We suggest that please provide the following information, then our Coach will give you a call.
1. Name:
2. Telephone:
3. Email Address:
4. Zip Code:

We like to hear from you or from your friends who may be interested to participate in any of the programs that we conduct.

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Are there faster route of learning the English language?

In many instances Speakers of other languages besides English have great challenges when they like to use the English language practically in Speaking or Writing. Many have had lessons in English during an earlier schooling, however these lessons did not give them the real proficiency in verbal or written communication.

When they began working in an English speaking environment, additional pressures and challenges will occur. They face difficulties in articulating their ideas with their colleagues and business audience. These  inabilities will also hinder their prospects for promotion and career advancement.

Is it possible to learn English conveniently and not attending school? 

Yes you can! Select your options. And it is for Real!

What should I do?

How will I gain an Advanced Level of  Proficiency?

 With whatever goals that you like to achieve in a short period of time, your best adviser is your Coach. The content of your sessions must be critically developed to match with the "Summary of Identified Difficulties" that will be provided by your Coach. To achieve a meaningful result, you need to work with Ideas N Conversations' Coach. 

We always appreciate to hear about your insights and experiences. Let us know what you think!

You can email us to: info@ideasnconversations.com or share your inputs to the area for your comments. Thank you.

Let's Celebrate Thanksgiving Day with You and Your Family

Enjoy the Celebration with interesting ideas and conversations with family members and friends whom you have not seen for a little while. 

Our friendly reminder is to be 'Safe Always'!

On November 22, 2012, the Thanksgiving Day is a US Public Holiday. 

Learning English is Fun and Easy ~ We will make You Speak Better

We like to hear from you so we can provide you the best options for your lessons. You can call us at +1 (650) 241-3207 or email to: info@ideasnconversations.com 

Enrolment is Now Open - Learn Conversational English in 12 Sessions

Conversational English Lessons that will help anyone who struggles to speak English conversationally with other English speakers.

In many aspects, speakers of other languages can learn English easily specially when the Trainer or Coach will provide effective and useful learning strategies that will make them talk. When someone who enrolled in ESL for Adults has been in the same school and learning English for the last 6 Months or longer - there is a big problem with the techniques used in teaching the adults students. The curriculum is probably an old view of teaching English as a Second Language and the teachers are not competent with the current trends of teaching second language.

There are many ways to teach English specifically Conversationally focused English as a Second Language for Adults. Experienced trainers and coaches of adults students have the competencies of demonstrating essential skills to make these learners talk in English.

Ideas N Conversations Offers Six Weeks or 12 Sessions Curriculum for Adult Learners who like to enhance their speaking proficiency. Modules are based on the Identified Difficulties of each students. Workshops of 8 to 10 learners are available. There is also a Tutorial on a one on one basis with someone who preferred to be independently coached.

Call +1 (650) 241-3207 to inquire and register. Accepting enrollees now!

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Selling Oneself during Conversations and Interviews

As candidate for a specific position, you must know your abilities. Be confident that you bring your technical skills and professional competencies to the employer’s business. When given that chance and moment, you will take advantage of the situation and discuss the problems and challenges they were facing but not to inquire about jobs, and show them your enthusiasm to bring in additional revenue through your effectiveness. This scenario will turn into your favor as a candidate. In addition, knowing what is outside the interviewing room is equally crucial piece of information for making your personal or professional decision to join the organization. You have the right to inquire in equal footing to their right of screening you.

Candidates must NOT work with recruiters or representatives with bad practices:

Your goal as a candidate is to screen out those organizations that do not demonstrate good recruitment and hiring practices. Be watchful of common bad practices; such as oftentimes requested an updated resume but never get any follow up from the Requester. Nor they send any acknowledgement, or communicate back with candidates after initial conversations. They do not send a feedback of the status of the application. They send a reply to candidates after 3 months from date of application. Conducted an interview either by phone or in person, but did not send any updates beyond ten days. All of these common bad practices within the recruitment and staffing arena are giving a bad name to the industry where real professionals do their work at best. Create a database of people you have spoken with regards to jobs and do not communicate with them again if they do not practice good business and communication. They are not a good source of information about opportunities.

Make your competencies as your assets:

Your competencies will demonstrate your abilities to do the job. Having the proficiency in speaking and conversationally engage with the Interviewing Team or Panel, this will open the doors of opportunity for you.

Highlight your technical skills, illustrate through effective conversations your proficiency in communicating about your ideas and abilities to perform the job. 

Create your portfolio that will speak about yourself and discuss strongly how you can solve many of the issues that the company are going through. Put currency value to your efforts and business plan. Present that ROI and they will extend you an offer letter without blinking. Must illustrate your capabilities as validated by experiences that were undeniably effective with ROI and results-driven.

Have your References talk and discuss about your qualities as an individual, a team partner, leader, or part of an effective team. However, be mindful do not give your List of References to a recruiter to contact until you have a face to face interview and been extended a verbal offer.

Do you have difficulties with persuasive conversations?

The American Coaches of Ideas N Conversations can help you develop and advance your interviewing skills and become conversationally savvy. Your proficiency to articulate your skills and competencies will influence the hiring decision. 

If you like to get Hired contact +1 (650) 241-3207 and discuss your difficulties and learn many ways to become effective during the interviewing process. If you help yourself you will get what you like to have and others do not give you that unless you can demonstrate.

We like to hear about your experiences. Email us at info@ideasnconversations.com

Leading a team but cannot articulate thoughts and ideas - Leadership Blunder

As a team leader, responsibilities cover management of people, the team's organization, efficiency of communication, processes, services, other business activities, results and must be in line with overall objectives of the business.

Let’s look at Michael’s experiences, who was a new Team Manager at his fast growing organization. He was recently promoted to his new role from his engineering role for the last seven years. He gained expertise in his role, demonstrated essential knowledge competencies and delivered magnificent accomplishments in performing his job. He was promoted to lead seven people with ranges of experiences from 6 months to 5 years. 

In the early days of his role, it was exciting; he was having a blast, enjoying all the perks that came with it. He started planning for his vacation when he completed his first year. However, there are some things that were bothering him. 

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Michael was reflecting some of the situations that have occurred:

1. In his first day, he met with his team members. He was very confident in getting to know them, clarifying their roles and responsibilities. However, he was very nervous and felt short in explaining all the things that he wanted to accomplish. He cannot find the right words in articulating his thoughts. He decided to postpone the sharing of other information. However, as soon as he got into his office, he sent an email to his team enumerating what he wanted to share with them. He did this because of his inability to articulate his ideas when speaking.

2. During the meeting with his co-managers, he was unable to discuss and tell the entire story about his team's activities and members because the words that he wanted to use cannot be articulated. He struggled to verbalize his thoughts in front of his co-managers. He was frustrated and was very embarrassed. Others told him “don’t worry, we understand what you meant! English is not your first language.”  He believed that his inability to speak will create some issues eventually.

3. A member of his team brought to his attention an escalating issue with a customer. When speaking with customers over the telephone, he was getting frustrated for his inability to verbally express the best options that the customers can take. Instead, he was giving polite excuses by telling customers that he will email more detailed information.  Michael was finding it more and more challenging to communicate effectively.

4. Michael was meeting with four other management colleagues after work hours. He was excited about joining them as he can do bonding with them. He enjoyed their company, learning more about their thoughts and practices. But when it comes to sharing about his interests and passion such as travels, outdoor activities, and other social functions. He was limited with words. He felt embarrassed with management peers but he claimed that he was more confident in talking things with his personal friends. 

What factors have contributed to the issues of Michael?

1. He lacks adequate business vocabulary and phrases to support his  ideas in front of his team

2. He lacks verbal and speaking competencies or  proficiency that will articulate his business and personal ideas

3. He lacks speaking communication skills that will make him more credible towards customers and management peers

4. He lacks conversational skills that will support his thoughts, ideas and opinions during small talks with business colleagues, peers and new acquaintances.

5. His organization did not prepare him for advance management role, nor trained him to become a team manager

What steps that Michael can do?
Because Michael is leading a team of people. He will need to acquire knowledge and skills through a program called "Advanced Business English for Effective Communication". This will give him the opportunity to develop adequate proficiency in both business leadership and communication skills. Many of the issues he faced are covered in this program; such as increasing functional vocabulary, learning techniques in conducting situational scenarios, communicative skills development, increase verbal customer relations skills, ability to talk with new acquaintances in small talks topics and ability to conduct himself as a more professional as a real manager during business meetings within or outside his organization.

Speaking with an experienced leadership trainer and coach at Ideas N Conversations will identify the real cause of his issues. The free assessment which Ideas N Conversations use in determining those difficulties will allow them to create a suitable and customized program that will eliminate his difficulties. He can use these new learning immediately after each session. 

Why do organizations need to step up?

In order for the organization to become successful with their business goals. They need to assess ahead of time the capabilities of their employees. One important role is to prepare talented employees to become team leaders, show them the  ropes in leading, their responsibilities, mentoring them before they will assume the role as a full time people manager.

These are issues within many organizations. They do not invest on their people because their focus is an immediate return of revenues. When you look at the overall performance of employees, many do not meet all expected results because of inefficiencies and lack of skills, knowledge and 'know hows'.

Acknowledgement: This article was authorized to be re-published here at Ideas N Conversations by JNTC Articles. 

Unique Differences between Advanced Business English and Business English

Are there differences between Advanced Business English and Business English?

Yes, there are...

Competencies in Business English are acquired by adult English speakers through experiential immersion, assimilation and practice with contextual relevance of ideas, utterances and their meanings. In this globalized business environment, English competence has become a critical skill of an individual for competitiveness within enterprises.

First, a Business English is a specialized form of the English language that illustrates functional norms of the language that relate to different businesses. In basic context, this language form generally use common business terminologies, phrases, statements and utterances that are business in nature. Employees that work in different businesses use basic business English language to portray their ideas, opinions, and experiences. Their referential use was based from either their personal family unit, they acquired from school, or from social interactions among English speakers. Many English speakers regardless of their locations struggle to demonstrate proficiency or skill in Business English. This is because the English classes they learned in school were not focused in the skills development and practice of using English within the business environment.

Second, an Advanced Business English is specially focused to a more complex use of Business English within growing, medium size or large organizations. This incorporates functional areas of businesses and action oriented results. This type of English within the business environment is required to illustrate effective communicative competence in either verbal or written. The psycho-socio-linguistic characteristics of the Advanced Business English must be demonstrated immensely among speakers because proficiency supports credibility. With strong acumen in communicating your ideas verbally, this means possibilities for advancement is open-ended.

When you  have experienced the lack of these competencies and skills, you can contact Ideas N Conversations to discuss and explore the appropriate program for you. Their expert will conduct an assessment of your current weaknesses and strengths.

Customized lessons will be based on your 'Identified Difficulties', depending on your preferred learning style modular lessons are either one-on-one coaching or in clusters and the trainer will travel to your location.

As always, we like to hear about your insights, suggestions and or comments.  To learn more additional information, please call +1 (650) 241-3207.

Pre-Halloween Business English Learning for Engaging Communications

We coach adults, who like to become the BEST and who like to learn the techniques of demonstrable 'engaging communications'. Available lessons are Advanced Business English for Effective Communication, Leadership Skills for Business, ESL for Adults, Conversational English for Work and Personal Use.

Ideas N Conversations (http://www.ideasnconversations.com) help you achieve your English Proficiency for your business and personal use. Experienced in tutoring or coaching individuals who came from non-english speaking countries like Japan, India, Singapore, S. Korea, China, Malaysia, France, Germany, the Philippines, South American countries, United States, etc .

Our Coaches, work with individuals who are employed in any profession, expat spouses who need to learn English for their day-to-day activities, those who are in college or graduate school and others who are US born individuals who like to improve their English communication skills and proficiency for better career advancement.

What do you get from Ideas N Conversations?
1. You will learn customized lessons that will increase your communication proficiency, you don't get these lessons from traditional class types or centers
2. The lessons solve your difficulties and very important to your current endeavors
3. We turn your weaknesses to become strength because you will gain high level of proficiency in communicating your ideas with others
4. Techniques in coaching you are progressively changing to sustain your improvement and will continue to gain higher level of proficiency
5. Learn how to use the language forms in Business English as well as Conversational English, which reflect correctness in both speaking and writing. Having all these, you will get better opportunities that will advance your career, and be able to communicate better with anyone among customers and colleagues

Please call +1 (650) 241-3207 to discuss your difficulties.  We conduct group classes for those who like to learn with other learners at the same time.

Locations that may participate in our learning venues are: Morgan Hill, San Jose, Willow Glen, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Redwood City, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Newark, Pleasanton, Union city and etc.

As always, we like to hear from you and let us know your insights and or how we can help you.