English for Human Resource Professionals
Helping HR professional handle working situations with confidence
Typical course participants
Most participants on this course are experienced HR professionals.
Course content summary
This course will provide you with the English language skills needed to perform in a variety of work situations, including interviewing applicants, conducting appraisals, participating in meetings and using the telephone. The written and spoken work will be valuable in both formal and social situations.
Benefits of doing this course
Whichever course you take with us, you can expect to improve your English in the following ways:
- communicate more confidently
- speak more accurately and fluently
- participate more successfully in meetings
- improve your written English including emails
- expand your professional vocabulary
- improve your understanding of grammar
- socialise and network with greater confidence
- work successfully in a cross-cultural environment
In addition to the benefits outlined above, you can expect to communicate more fluently and confidently in a range of professional situations, deal more easily with difficult situations and handle written communication more effectively.
Course content
The
course is designed to develop participants' language and communication
skills in a professional context. The course focuses on active speaking and writing skills and communication strategies. In order to provide a framework for the course, topic areas may include:
- national and international labour market
- single European market: free movement of labour
- internationalisation of work practices
- organisation and leadership
- financing personnel
- recruitment
- training, motivation and rewards
- insurance and pensions
- working abroad
- redundancies and settlements
- managing change
- social welfare
- labour law
Key language skills and communication strategies covered in the course include:
- effective communication skills for meetings and negotiations
- effective participation in discussions
- giving presentations
- persuading and compromising
- summarising
- written communication including email, reports and formal letters
- effective telephoning skills
- hosting visits, socialising, meeting and greeting
- making proposals, offers, suggestions
- opening/closing meetings
When
professional people are speaking with their counterparts, discussion
often turns to broader matters. The course reflects this with practice
in the context of a range of topical issues such as:
- current affairs
- social, political and environmental issues
- political systems and developments
- education and training
- advertising and the media
- technology and society
Professional hospitality, entertaining visitors and handling social situations are important for many professional people. Areas covered include:
- meeting and greeting
- dealing with enquiries and offering advice
- arranging and cancelling appointments/social engagements
- travel arrangements, bookings and reservations
- giving and understanding directions
- restaurants and pubs
- small talk
Sample timetable
View Sample timetable.
Factcheck
- Group size maximum 6
- Minimum age 25
Average age 40
- 30 hours per week (30 x 60 minutes)
09.00 - 17.00 Monday - Friday
- Fixed start dates
1 week course
Course dates in 2009
9 - 13 February, 30 March - 3 April, 27 April - 1 May, 8 - 12 June,
7 - 11 September, 5 - 9 October, 9 - 13 November.
Course dates in 2010
8 - 12 February, 22 - 26 March - 26 - 30 April, 7 - 11 June,
6 - 10 September, 4 - 8 October, 8 - 12 November.
Más información:
T.: 902 100 870
united@united-languages.com
www.united-languages.com