Podcasts

The Regional Language Network has released a new set of podcasts to add to their collection all of which are free to download from their website. These are packed with cultural information and tips to help you navigate your way through business meetings; and with basic words and phrases for you to learn before you set off, they provide you with everything you need to make a good impression on your new customers.

Languages mean Business

Are you an EXPORTER? Do you IMPORT regularly? Do you employ MIGRANT WORKERS? Are you LOSING BUSINESS because you can’t communicate properly with your customers?

If ANY ONE of these apply to you, then you can benefit from the Regional Language Network's FREE SERVICE!

An experienced adviser from the Regional Language Network will give your company a languages and cultural training needs assesment which will include:

• assessing your language and cultural training needs and provide you with a written report of their findings
• putting you in touch with suitable providers who can carry out your training
• signposting any available funding

Improving your businesses communication skills will help you to:

• Grow your exports
• Create a better impression with your customers
• Negotiate better deals with your suppliers
• Create better rapport with your parent company or subsidiaries
• Enable you to integrate migrant workers more quickly and easily into your workforce

This simple straightforward service is open to any size company regardless of turnover, number of employees, existing provision or previous funding.

Business Language Champions

•Do you or your staff use foreign languages in your day to day work?
•Would you like the chance to inspire the students in your local school?

A new exciting project from the Regional Language Network is running and needs local businesses to get involved.

We would like volunteers to help us with our Business Language Champions project, a project designed to show school children the relevance of languages in today’s globalised society.

• What does it involve?

You can give as much or as little time to the project as you like. To kick off we are organising a half day event for schools and businesses in mid November. We are also keen to encourage ongoing 'partnerships' between businesses and their local schools - but we also welcome ideas and suggestions from all sides as to how each could benefit from the project and help take it forward.

• What’s in it for the schools?

They get a chance to breathe life into their language lessons and give their students a real insight into how invaluable languages are in the world of work today.

• What’s in it for the businesses?

You get a chance to escape from the office and return (albeit briefly!) to the world of study, helping to inform the choices that GCSE and A level students are making.

You also get the chance to do some outreach work in your local community and benefit from the great PR that this will bring!

If you would like to find out more about the Business Language Champions project please contact RLN for more details.

Contact Details

Website: www.rln-eastmidlands.com
Contact: Suzanna Hutton
Email: suzannah.hutton@uktiem.co.uk
Tel: 01332 826432