BUSINESS ENGLISH STARTUP TRAINING

What is a Leader?

What is a Leader?Click icon to add picture

What is a Leader?Click icon to add picture

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”Peter Drucker,

Leadership Management

Innovation Administration

Original Tried and true

Develop Maintain

Ideas Systems and structures

Trust Control

Long-range vision Short-range view

Challenges the status quo

Accepts the status quo

The following are some qualities, taken from Warren Bennis’On Becoming A Leader, that distinguish the idea of leadership from that of management:

The following are some qualities, taken from Warren Bennis’On Becoming A Leader, that distinguish the idea of leadership from that of management:

Leader = Entrepreneur

Innovation

Original

Develop

Ideas

Trust

Long-range vision

Challenges the status quo

A REPORT BY THE PARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY ; STUDYING THE CONTRI BUTIONS OF I MMIGRANTS TO THE TOP 500 COMPANI ES IN THE UNI TED STATES, FOUND SOME SURPRISING RESULTS…

Are Immigrant Entrepreneurs important?

Every year, Fortune Magazine ranks the top American companies by revenue. The companies that populate the list — names like Kraft, Ford, General Electric, Procter &Gamble, AT&T, Mattel, Google, McDonald’s, Heinz, Home Depot, Hertz, Estée Lauder, UPS, Boeing, and Disney — are synonymous with America’s leading role in the global marketplace.

But the great American companies listed above are also “New American” companies —companies founded by immigrants or their children — a characteristic they share with more than 200 others on the 2010 Fortune 500 list.

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Fortune 500 companies founded by immigrants or children of immigrants employ more than 10 million people worldwide.

The revenue generated by Fortune 500 companies founded by immigrants or children of immigrants is greater than the GDP of every country in the world outside the U.S., except China and Japan.

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o What about Canada?

o What about New Brunswick?

o What about Canada?

o What about New Brunswick?

Do we understand the importance of nurturing these future leaders through Their initial struggle to adapt to their new home and business environment?

HOW TO HELP THESE FUTURE LEADERS TO THRIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

The Challenge

Before a house can be finished, it must have a proper framework

Plumbing, wiring and structure must be done according to the Canadian code.

All of that work and expense is covered over by the finishing, but it is essential.

Without the framing in place, there would be no place to hang the hang the roof, doors, windows, walls, and fixtures. It would be impossible to finish the house.

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Newcomers arrive with their previous framework intact.

Their assumptions, experience, and knowledge has served them well in their previous business, in their country.

In many cases, parts of that framework are not “up to code” for Canada, in the sense that they do not fit with the Canadian business environment.

Each culture has a different framework, with problems in different areas.

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Basic assumptions

Business etiquette

Attitude towards banks

Attitude towards borrowing

Attitude towards government officials

Attitude towards permits and problems

Personal independence

Trust

Collaboration

Competition

Employees

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LANGUAGE

Challenge #2

Some newcomers arrive with a good understanding of English, and can benefit immediately from business classes

Some have been taking English lessons for several years, and have developed the skills to listen and understand business classes

BUT

The majority of our clients are evaluated at a level 5 or lower when they first arrive.

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Canadian Benchmark Level 4

The listener can:

Understand, with considerable effort, simple formal and informal communication on topics of personal relevance.

When the communication is:

Spoken clearly at a slow to normal rate

Sometimes supported by visual or contextual clues

Face-to-face or via digital media (usually one-on-one or in small groups)

Related to topics of personal relevance

Relatively short

In non-demanding contexts

Listening characteristics of a level 4 Student

Demonstrating these

strengths and limitations:

Understands an expanded range of factual details and some implied meanings

Recognizes meaning based on simple sentences and structures and shows an initial understanding of some complex sentences and structures

Sometimes relies on contextual clues for comprehension

Begins to recognize some common registers and idioms

May need some assistance (such as repetition, paraphrasing, speech modification or explanation)

Listening characteristics of a level 4 Student

The low level students are under the same pressure to start a business within two years as are the high level students

Because their language skills are low, they are forced to jump into starting a business without the proper business “Framework”

The low level students are under the same pressure to start a business within two years as are the high level students

Because their language skills are low, they are forced to jump into starting a business without the proper business “Framework”

They do not have the years required to raise their English from a low level to an intermediate level. The are under the gun to start their business as quickly as possible.

The low level students are under the same pressure to start a business within two years as are the high level students

Because their language skills are low, they are forced to jump into starting a business without the proper business “Framework”

They do not have the years required to raise their English from a low level to an intermediate level. The are under the gun to start their business as quickly as possible.

When newcomers take an advanced business course taught by native English speakers without the necessary language and context to absorb it, they miss large portions of essential information.

The low level students are under the same pressure to start a business within two years as are the high level students

Because their language skills are low, they are forced to jump into starting a business without the proper business “Framework”

They do not have the years required to raise their English from a low level to an intermediate level. The are under the gun to start their business as quickly as possible.

When newcomers take an advanced business course taught by native English speakers without the necessary language and context to absorb it, they miss large portions of essential information.

Is there a solution?

The low level students are under the same pressure to start a business within two years as are the high level students

IT ’S WHAT WE DO…

How do Multicultural Organizations Help?

We have years of experience, helping individuals from many different cultures.

• We are experts at providing culturally adapted information

• We specialize at finding the cultural “holes” in our clients knowledge, and filling them in, so that our clients can quickly fit in to Canadian society.

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WE provide practical “Bridging” services, which quickly help our clients

• Multi level language courses to help them progress

• Language based Workplace readiness programs like CENA and NBELT

• Settlement services

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Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John now have Business English courses for newcomers , to help them quickly “Bridge the gap”

Adapted to Students language level

Improve communication in a business context

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BUSINESS ENGLISH STARTUP TRAINING

OVERVIEW

BEST COURSE

A whole new language…

Effective Business Language

Business Idioms

Business expressions

Accent Reduction

Grammar

Vocabulary

Taking Responsibility

Speaking practice

Listening comprehension

Clarity in Communication

Overcoming Barriers to progress

Click icon to add picture20 weeks

2 nights per week

Typically 36 lessons

22 Lessons –specifically English with a business focus (60%)

14 Lessons, specifically Business, with focus on vocabulary and key concepts that they may be missing.

Website, Forum, and homework lessons.

Overcoming Barriers to progress

Click icon to add pictureProvide Business Based English instruction while helping students understand the basic framework of starting a business in Canada

BEST and BIMP

Click icon to add pictureThe BEST course as a prelude to the BIMP program…

Provides a basic understanding of Canadian Entrepreneurship dispelling misinformation, giving Business Mentors a Canadian foundation to build on

Gives students a better business vocabulary and understanding the context in which the terminology is used.

Shortens the time frame for Provincial Nominees, so that they can benefit from the BIMP program in a few months, rather than years

In Conclusion…

Any Questions?