In-House French Training For You and Your Team!
This program is for a team of colleagues to do together, to increase your strength as a team and to ensure the success of any international business ventures.
Objective:
- To provide your team with the required tools to maximise the competitive advantage of doing business in France through a mixture of in-depth background information and hands-on practical tips and solutions.
- To ensure the success of your international business venture by learning more about doing business in France and the French business culture.
We design your program considering all your real-work challenges and specific training goals. Corporate-specific and situation-specific examples are used for practice drills and aspects of the program emphasised to suit the team’s needs. It really is tailor-made for you!
Develop:
- Spoken fluency & listening skills.
- Pronunciation, accent & idiomatic expressions.
- Writing skills & reading skills.
- Proficiency in sector-specific terminology.
- Presentation & negotiation skills.
- Knowlege in telephone French and email French.
Understand:
- French culture, history and customs.
- French business culture, etiquette and attitudes in the workplace.
- Management and working styles for doing business in France.
- French communication styles when doing business.
- Challenges and practical solutions for doing business in France.
Gain:
- A clear understanding of the key drivers that motivate French business counterparts.
- A better understanding of the potential business challenges and solutions involved in establishing or doing business in France.
- Rapport and strengthen relationships with French-speaking colleagues and clients through a show of interest in the French language and culture.
- The ability to demonstrate goodwill and facilitate international communication at both a personal and organisational level.
- Confidence when visiting French-speaking countries or dealing with French-speaking nationals.
- Key tips to ensure successful business relations with your French colleagues and clients.
- Practical strategies for doing business more effectively with your French counterparts.
Benefit from:
- Reduced costs, a tailored and personalised French program and a time-slot that suits you and your team.
- Convenient group onsite training with engaging and instructive programs, real-time and focused learning strategies. Consistency and standards created through team learning.
- Guaranteed new skills for staff members’ respective jobs.
- Improved teamwork through sharing problems, pressures and ideas.
- On-site workshops that will teach your entire team how to communicate together more effectively. This will save your company time, costly errors and build a stronger team dynamic.
- A variety of training formats for our French courses ranging from intensive, week-long courses to extensive, modular French programmes and weekly or twice-weekly sessions. Appropriate formats will be discussed during your initial consult and assessment.
- Suitable tailored and published materials, as well as online learning resources, will be used throughout your French course, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and throughout the duration of your French course.
Testimonials
“Dr. Berger is a man of great culture and civilisation, and an absolutely first-class teacher… Students studying French here now leave with a good working knowledge of the language as a conversational tool, as well as a sound acquaintance with its literature. M. Berger’s achievement here has been quite extraordinary.”
Dr. J. T. Vallance,
“Maison de Ste Claire offers an appealing and interactive French immersion experience in a relaxing environment, along with up-to-date pedagogy which promotes mastery of the language and a passion for cultural understanding. Dr Gilles Berger’s exemplary teaching style maximises student participation in a range of educational activities, establishing camaraderie and a wonderful rapport with his students, whilst communicating his passion for French language, culture, history and literature. I strongly recommend him as an outstanding teacher.”
L. Grams
“He was the outstanding teacher of French of the decade. Students flourished under his tuition, to the extent that students taught by him were way ahead of their peers when they went to university. His teaching was widely regarded as quite inspiring … He is a most unusual person, combining imagination with wisdom.”
Dr. R. D. Townsend,