Course Overview
This is an intensive course designed especially for managers starting from CEFR A2. It consists of an innovative blend for managers who want to write effectively in the business world and who face challenges writing to their superiors, subordinates and peer managers. This course blends managerial skills and leadership, communication skills, interpersonal skills, negotiation skills, superior-subordinate relationship alongside with Business etiquette, an extensive chunk of language and writing altogether. All the past is then mirrored in writing correspondences.
The course falls in four parts
- First part cures language malfunctioning of writers by fixing all integral parts of language necessary for clear message delivery like correct use of tenses, punctuation.
- Second part trains managers to writing correct sentences and a variety of sentence types; as well as structuring different kinds of paragraphs for different purposes.
- Third part trains managers to use a variety of expressions, phrasal verbs & idioms to be used in each kind of correspondence.
- Fourth part trains managers to different forms of correspondences and this falls into four categories of recipients: superior management, subordinates, corporate clients and peer managers.
It trains them to produce the right form of each type of correspondence to create the desired effect and convey the right tone through words, structures, modals and other language tools. Producing the desired effect and showing the intention in a professional way is also very time-effective since it saves the writer the need to clarify later or regain lost trust. In this phase, learners also learn methods of addressing individuals in proper language at work; like addressing superiors, subordinates and peers. They also practice writing different forms of reports like graph reports.
The course walks learners through the topics they will need to succeed in business. It covers a wide variety of topics from emails and letters to meeting minutes and agendas. The progressive syllabus ensures learners will improve their overall knowledge and ability in writing.
The course is designed in the form of workshops
Each workshop covers one type of correspondence starting by language used in this type of writing, followed by sentence and paragraph writing; then soft skills and then all is mirrored in writing emails and reports.