Soft Skills in English
Improve your Soft Skills in English
Caledonian School offers you the chance to develop your managerial skills in our ‘Soft Skills in English’ seminars.
Goals of the seminars:
- To develop soft skills such as writing, presentations, meetings, telephoning and negotations.
- To improve the language knowledge of each student.
- To help employees be more effective at work in order to deal with colleagues and clients from abroad.
Advantages of the seminars:
- The seminars are in English so a participant can improve their language skills.
- The seminars focus on a specific skill so a participant can target his or her own needs.
- The courses are intensive so a student can make real progress in a short time.
- The seminars challenge a participant to re-think their approach to doing business.
- The participants gain an insight into the way other people and cultures do business.
- Students improve language and soft skills at the same time.
- The new skills can be applied both when using English and in a participant’s mother tongue.
- Caledonian Training materials can be adapted to different situations.
- All the trainers are native speakers with experience in business environments as well as teaching a foreign language.
- Seminars can take place all over the Czech Republic.
- After completing the course, participants will receive a Caledonian Training Certificate.
- Caledonian School has more than 15 years experience in teaching Business courses.
Training approach of the seminars:
- The seminars focus on a specific language and soft skills.
- They are designed so that the participants are actively involved throughout.
- The seminars are dynamic and include pair or group work, competitions, team-building activities and role plays.
- The seminars are designed for practical language use.
- The students are in active communication throughout the seminar.
- They use the language and skills in many different settings.
- The seminars use case studies as an analysis tool.
- They are student-centred.
- They take place in a supportive atmosphere.
The differences between a seminar and a traditional language lesson
There are many aspects which make seminars different from standard language lessons. Students learn phrases necessary for a particular skill, but that is only one part of the seminar. Another important aspect is that students learn to formulate their thoughts in English, which can be a very different process in a foreign language due to cultural differences. An English or American team leader will expect a different approach and consequently different expressions to a Czech one.
Students do not learn empty phrases. Instead, they learn to understand their meaning with respect to the culture behind a different language. For example, in the Czech Republic, it is important to address people with their academic titles or degrees, such as “pane řediteli“. Addressing someone ‘Mr Director’ or using an academic title might seem funny or too formal to English-speaking people.
The seminars help a participant to understand these differences and to use the language appropriate for the situation. The seminars develop a student’s ability to do this by targeting specific business skills.