Four Essential Techniques Lead to Learning Language Competency of Global Business with Results

There are ways in improving and learning the global Business Language - the English Proficiency.  You acquire the highest level of Business English Proficiency instead of acquiring English skills. The latter is focused on measured and tactical execution of grammatically-based language use. 

While Business English, is integrated with Communication Competency and Proficiency. It illustrates the holistic understanding about the English language, cultural implications, usage of expressions and terminologies, its functions within specific utterances for a given setting in either business or personal.  IdeasN's Coaches have the competency in developing realistic Critical Thinking  abilities. By having this ability, it becomes your important differentiator as a professional or an individual. Your capabilities in influencing, creativity and effectiveness in communication will follow. We coach you from the most basic up to achieving the highest level of Proficiency that you are capable of.

The following techniques are offered as tips for anyone to self-learn the basics that will develop your confidence to eventually become better communicator. 

Four Essential Techniques in English Learning Lead to Results
1	Learn and create adequate English vocabulary supply with understanding:  Read materials that were written in English such as websites, blogs, articles, books, newspapers, journals, magazines, researches, technical essays, industry news and English dictionary with diacritical marks. By spending at least 30 minutes a day, you will learn new technical words.  An effective learning tool is to keep a small pocket booklet on your side when reading. Write every new word that you will come across. Then take a dictionary and understand the actual meaning of the word. Go back to the original material that you were reading and understand how the word was used. Every writer uses words differently depending on the setting of the material. Many use simple words, complex terminologies, idiomatic expressions or slangs that relate to the circumstances illustrated in the material.   It is essential to pay attention on how words are formed, connected, described and expanded with time and locations.  These are all important functions of words; including their arrangement. The key is to understand how they are being used. When in doubt, always seek the assistance of a Coach who can explain to you the linguistic features used.
2	Develop a 'Linguistic Ear' that is focused on distinct sounds and enunciation:  Listen carefully to different Agents of English sounds. When listening to an English speaker, train your ear to carefully listen on the distinct sounds of vowels and consonants within words. It is somehow difficult for a non-English speaker to train one’s ear to differentiate distinct sounds without the help of an experienced Language Coach or Teacher.  Besides people, other agents of sounds are devices that broadcast people’s voices speaking English language like televisions, radios, movies, YouTube videos, electronic devices and gadgets. When listening to these devices, practice to be attentive with how words are enunciated or pronounced.  Please note, that every speaker has a unique and distinct way in producing an English sound either vowel or consonant. Understanding the cultural background and its implications to speaking will be essential. Somehow, many use the English dictionary as their point of reference in learning the linguistic sounds but the speaker was enunciating it differently. Regional differences and locations of English speakers also play a role.  It is important to keep in mind that when learning English, you need to understand your current location, its regional difference from others, and how people say certain things and differ from other English speakers in other locations – this is a dialectical difference.  There is no one sound that fits all when it comes to sounds of the non-formal English language usage. In a formal environment, majority of people try to use the formal sounds of English vowels and consonants, however certain regions cannot be avoided due to regional accents. An English Language Coach helps learners to train their linguistic ear effectively by modeling the actual sounds, word formations, enunciations and stresses of words.
3	Use of technical vocabulary, phrases, and conversational utterances: To become at least a good conversationalist, one must demonstrate adequate technical vocabulary, phrases and appropriate utterances when engaging in a conversation.  The techniques 1 and 2 above helped the learner to acquire simple ways in developing a supply of words and understanding sounds. When engaging to a conversation with other English speakers, you are expected to use and show your knowledge and proficiency level in exchanging ideas, thoughts, commentaries, share opinions on certain topics that are being discussed.  Practice makes perfect in the best option to become conversationalist.   When you are not confident, accelerate your focus and practice techniques 1 and 2. Practice with friends and family members. Read materials, then discuss the topics, use words and phrases that you come across in different materials. Pay attention on how the sounds must be enunciated. Most people who like to become proficient at their best hire an English Language Coach who will evaluate their progress and engaging activities. Hearing an unbiased feedback will help learners to gain better and faster results of higher proficiency level.
4	Immersing oneself in real-time conversational situations:   The best option to learn and validate your authentic sounds, usage and practical expressions and utterances would be to engage in a real time conversations with other English speakers. Do not be afraid to commit mistakes. Everyone commits an error - learn it from experience.  When you come across of someone rude in terms of correcting your errors, don’t give up, ignore the rudeness and don’t speak to that person again until you are better to square of.  Find others who will understand and supportive to your learning process. Most importantly is to enjoy the moments when sharing ideas and conversations.  During this event, you are technically validating your proficiency in comprehension about other’s ideas.  It is important to validate your proficiency in using the English language in a specific time, event, location, and setting whether personal or in business.  The quicker you can engage in meaningful conversations the better you become as a conversationalist. The more practice you will engage, the higher your proficiency will achieve, up to a point that you will be speaking like Native Speakers. Speak to your Coach often and solicit unbiased feedback about the progression towards higher level.

Majority of individuals who had difficulties in language, business and leadership proficiency became successful after they were coached with actual strategies, sessions, and workshops that helped them acquired the needed competency for their business and personal goals. 

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Acquire Your Competency: English Communications, Business, & Leadership

Our 2014 Classes and programs will help to increase your proficiency and then eventually optimize your competency as an individual. Optimistically, options are endless. However, in order to become the Agent of Success this year, your plans must be efficient, create a road map for prosperity, make time tables of the things that you like to accomplish, work and achieve productive results on each goal, adjust them when unpredictable circumstances arise and as time permits, navigate through various challenges that may come, and always celebrate results with your passion.

"Creating in You the following Strength is our Pleasure"

Regardless of events that are taking place around us, Ideas N Conversations offers the 2013 Classes and Programs for your personal or professional development. You have many options to choose from. Each class will give you learning environment to harness your "living skills that will uncover the best out of yourself in order to achieve better success and fulfillment today and in the near future". These will play essential roles in your personal or business life as you will advance and develop to be better.

For Remote Learning Options:

There are also classes available for anyone who likes to learn remotely. We have designed classes that can be done via Skype or Yahoo Messenger. All that you will need is your active account in either of the two platforms. Register with us and then you are ready to begin your learning in English Conversations for Business or Personal Use or increase your communication skills and competency.

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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

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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.

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