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It’s not a big secret that we’ve been talking a lot about language vendor costs, how much organizations typically spend on language training, and how exactly organizations can minimize those costs for significant savings across your organization. The good news…
In a recent post, we talked at length about how to launch a language cost audit, and how you can see big savings in the process. As a quick refresher, in that post, we outlined three critical steps for unlocking…
How many language training vendors does your company use? Even uncovering that simple fact can take a bit of legwork if your employees are located around the globe. Once you’ve found your answer, a smart followup is to audit all…
The last two weeks have felt like an eternity. For many of us, social distancing, quarantines, lockdowns, and isolation have become the new normal. The sudden and significant changes have made me and my team revisit our plans, the things…
For Human Resource and Learning & Development leaders, the ideal answer would be always. Employers naturally expect to realize value from each training dollar and hour invested. What about language training? How can you determine its benefit across your organization?…
Learning a language is a career game changer in today’s multilingual work climate. It’s an in-demand skill your employees can use for decades. Let’s pause to consider some basic career advice employees receive. Like be punctual. Keep focused. Find a…
Language differences can affect your business in many ways, from simple inconvenience to disastrous deal breaking. Enter an elevator when the workday ends, walk across a busy lobby, or visit a client on site. You’re likely to hear languages you…
Regardless of the location or type of medicine practiced, language is at the core of patient-centered care. This is because every patient visit starts with a question. “What brings you in today?” “Where does it hurt?” “When did the symptoms…
Ensuring that the construction workforce attains the proper skills is driven by the reality that skills gaps like language proficiency present very real, complex business risks.
Business communication in your own language is a huge challenge for any business. It all starts with language training.
Conversation. Where contact begins and deals close. This truth was brought home to me in a big way at an annual sales meeting. Attending were distributors and partners of a global industrial supply company. The agency I was with at…