Business English one-on-one training for international teams
A personalized learning solution built around your employees’ communication challenges
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Unlock your team’s potential
Improving your team’s communication skills is a crucial investment into their professional development and your company success.
Premium content
Our original resources are practical, relevant, and engaging. At the end of each lesson, the learner will come away with practical knowledge and tools that they can begin using immediately.
Exceptionally qualified coaches with a range of specialties
Our team of business English coaches is made up of energetic native English speakers who are passionate about interacting with humans and sharing their knowledge.
Easy training logistics
On our all-inclusive platform, your team will be able to learn, schedule lessons, and access premium content in one place, while the HR managers stay in the loop through their Team Dashboard.
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High-quality live learning
Our program is the most comprehensive business English program for gaining confidence and clarity in English with one-on-one coaching and personalized feedback.
One-on-one communication lessons that match current market requirements
Grammar
Uptick’s grammar lessons focus on the most prominent grammar concepts, such as parts of speech, prepositions, tenses, and conditionals, and they include both theory and practice. While we're well aware of the fact that grammar can be painful, correct grammar is key to speaking English fluently and confidently, and we promise to make it as painless as possible for your employees. We also promise to have them leave each lesson feeling empowered to speak more effectively and avoid making the same mistakes over and over again.
Vocabulary
Having a rich vocabulary is one of the key things that will allow your employees to become expressive English speakers. As part of these lessons, we help students do two things: First, we help them activate their passive vocabulary, which is made up of words that they easily recognize and understand, but aren’t able to effortlessly retrieve when writing or speaking. Second, we help them enrich their vocabulary with new words, idioms, phrasal verbs, buzzwords, and slang words that can make their language more dynamic, colorful, and interesting.
Accent and Pronunciation
Each of the program’s American accent lessons will help familiarize your employees with new sounds and speech habits. A typical lesson involves work on tongue positioning when speaking, mouth muscles, and the ability to recognize and copy different sounds. We will teach them how to round their lips, drop their jaw, curl their tongue, and stick it out softly. In other words, we’ll teach them how to flex their mouth muscles in a way that they’re not used to, and by doing so, improve their accent and speaking clarity.
Fluency
While the grammar, vocabulary, and accent lessons focus on developing technical skills and working with your employees to establish the tools to sound and feel more natural in English, the fluency lessons are built as a framework for effectively practicing and developing conversational skills. In these fluency lessons, your employees will immerse themselves in real-life relevant and dynamic conversations where they will get to put their skills into practice. Without conversational practice and the right feedback, it’s difficult to elevate ourselves to the level of native English fluency we hope to achieve.
Professional Writing
Whether it be email, a social media post, an article, or some other document, crafting professional texts in English is vital in business. We know you know this, and have designed our writing lessons to give your employees the necessary knowledge and skills to decide what and what not to include in their writing, how to make intelligent format and style choices for different workplace situations, and more. Your employees will finish these lessons as confident, efficient writers, proficient at producing quality texts.
Presentations
You’re trying to convey your ideas to your colleagues and clients, but can’t come up with the right words, or are too nervous to express them with clarity. We’ve all been there and have experienced the frustration. For employers who want and need to hear what their employees have to say, it can be even worse. In Uptick’s presentation lessons, your employees will learn how to design and build captivating presentations, how to express their ideas clearly and confidently, and how to engage audiences by presenting well‐organized, easily understandable materials.
Cross-Cultural Communication
Understanding American culture is key to mastering American English. It gives us the necessary context to participate in conversations on topics relevant to our counterparties, it helps us identify and comprehend “hidden messages” (AKA subtexts) and body language, etc. As part of these lessons, your team will learn how to soften their language in situations requiring cultural sensitivity and to better relate to others with different backgrounds.
Interview Preparation
As part of the interview preparation lessons, we’ll simulate different types of interviews so that your team will learn how to coherently deliver complex ideas about your company, the market, their careers, choices, challenges, and accomplishments. Being hosted on a podcast, speaking with potential investors, or interviewing for a promotion – whatever the interview scenario, these lessons will make sure your employees are at the top of their game, ready to respond in English to whatever is thrown their way.
Upon request, we can also include simulating how to conduct interviews.
By the end of this program, your team will…
Develop a strong sense of confidence surrounding their grammar and vocabulary through practical and dynamic discussions.
Be able to carry more fluent and culturally appropriate conversations with international stakeholders.
Sound and feel more natural in English by improving their pronunciation and elevating their range of vocabulary, ultimately increasing their response time and decreasing “mental blackouts”.
Be able to convey messages effectively via written and verbal communication with native-speaking counterparts, enabling them to deliver the power of your company’s product or service with greater ease.
Allow your team to communicate powerfully, naturally, and confidently in a fast-paced environment across different channels and cultures.
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