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COMMUNICATION COMPETENCIES

Leadership and Influence

High-stakes communication, where the cost of misunderstanding is greatest.
17 Competencies
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Effective Communication Fundamentals

Be yourself in your second language. Communicate with clarity and nuance whatever the listener or situation.

Effective Communication Fundamentals

This core program is often the first step after a diagnostic. It develops the language and strategies you need to respond with intention rather than simply translate your thoughts. You’ll learn to adapt to your listener, share your perspective, navigate agreement and disagreement, and resolve misunderstandings while maintaining confidence and authenticity.
In this program, help you develop the words, phrases and communication strategies you need.
We work with you on:
  • Choose the right tone, level of detail and degree of directness
  • Structure your message for impact and clarity
  • Express and support your opinions
  • Agree and disagree with tact
  • Soften requests, feedback and difficult messages
  • Ask for clarification and confirm meaning
  • Move naturally between casual and formal communication
02

Presenting with Impact

Deliver presentations that land, with confidence at every turn.

Presenting with Impact

From a five-minute team update to a conference keynote. Structure, signposting, data description and vocal delivery.
We work with you on:
  • Signposting language and structure cues
  • Describing data, trends and comparisons
  • Handling unexpected questions without losing composure
  • Vocal delivery: pacing, stress and pausing
  • Rehearsing your actual upcoming presentation
03

Negotiation & Sales Communication

Steer the deal with clarity and conviction, at every stage.

Negotiation & Sales Communication

For sales teams, buyers and anyone whose second language sits between them and a signature. Discovery, value framing, objection handling and the closing language that asks for the decision without pushing for it.
We work with you on:
  • Framing value before price
  • Hedging and softening language for counter-offers
  • Reading and responding to hesitation
  • Closing language that doesn't sound pushy
  • Holding your position when the pressure rises
04

Business Storytelling & Persuasion

Make the case stick, long after the slide is gone.

Business Storytelling & Persuasion

For anyone who has to move a decision, not just deliver information. Structuring a narrative, using evidence and example, and building an argument in your second language that survives the room's skepticism, where instinct is harder to rely on.
We work with you on:
  • Structuring a narrative that leads to a decision
  • Estructurar un relato que conduzca a una decisión
  • Usar los datos como evidencia, no como adorno
  • Usar los datos como evidencia, no como adorno
  • Opening and closing lines that land
05

Language for Business & Personal Travel

Travel with confidence for work or pleasure—from airport check-in to client dinners and local experiences.

Language for Business & Personal Travel

For professionals travelling internationally for business or in their personal time. Communicate the entire journey with confidence—from airports, hotels and transportation to restaurants, business events and unexpected situations.
We work with you on the words, phrases and communication strategies you need.
We work with you on:
  • Navigate airports, hotels and local transportation
  • Make requests and resolve problems while travelling
  • Connect at client dinners and business events
  • Manage restaurants, shopping and sightseeing
  • Ask for directions and seek local recommendations
06

Leadership Communication

Lead your team with clarity, calm and authority in any language.

Leadership Communication

For managers, directors and executives who set direction in a second language. We work on the register that carries authority without harshness — delegating, explaining decisions, motivating, and sharing critical feedback.
We work with you on:
  • Delegating without a micromanaging tone
  • Framing decisions and rationale transparently
  • Motivational and vision-setting language
  • Communicating difficult news (restructuring, setbacks)
  • Holding authority in a language that isn't your first
07

Executive Presence & Stakeholder Communication

Command the room you're in and the ones you report into.

Executive Presence & Stakeholder Communication

For senior professionals who are competent in their file but lose ground in the room. Presence, concision and composure under scrutiny — briefing boards, executive committees, investors and regulators when every word is weighed.
We work with you on:
  • Briefing a board or executive committee
  • Answering hard questions without over-explaining
  • Concision: making the point in ninety seconds
  • Projecting composure under scrutiny
  • Managing up to leaders and stakeholders
08

Change & Crisis Communication

Say the difficult thing early, clearly, and only once.

Change & Crisis Communication

For leaders and HR teams communicating restructuring, mergers, AI-driven change or an incident in progress. Language that reduces rumour rather than feeding it, holds up when repeated, and stays consistent across languages.
We work with you on:
  • Announcing change before the rumour does
  • Holding a consistent message across audiences
  • Bilingual messaging that says the same thing twice
  • Answering the questions people are afraid to ask
  • Communicating during an incident in real time
09

Cross-Cultural Influence

Influence with instinct, across every culture in the room.

Cross-Cultural Influence

For teams working across borders and head offices.Persuasion styles differ by culture: what reads as confident in New York reads as aggressive in Tokyo and as vague in Paris. We calibrate directness, pacing and credibility signals to the audience in front of you.
We work with you on:
  • Direct and indirect persuasion styles
  • Building credibility through language choices
  • Reading unspoken cues in multicultural meetings
  • Adapting pitch and pacing to the audience
  • Working with head office in another country
10

Customer Service & De-escalation

Turn a tough call into a five-star review

Customer Service & De-escalation

For frontline and customer-facing teams serving clients in their second language. Handling complaints, refusals and escalations without stiffening into script and knowing the exact phrases that lower the temperature instead of raising it.
We work with you on:
  • De-escalation phrases and tone control
  • Saying no while keeping the relationship
  • Explaining a policy without hiding behind it
  • Handling complaints in the client's language
  • Knowing when to escalate, and how to hand off
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Client Relationships & Networking

Turn small talk into accounts that renew.

Client Relationships & Networking

For account managers, consultants and business developers whose relationships are built in a second language. The unscripted part of the job — conferences, coffees, follow-ups and the check-in that keeps a client warm between contracts.
We work with you on:
  • Small talk that doesn't feel forced
  • Finding common ground and follow-up questions
  • Following up after an event or introduction
  • Maintaining the relationship between contracts
  • Hosting clients and industry events
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Leading & Facilitating Meetings

Lead meetings with confidence and control in your second language , from open to close.

Leading & Facilitating Meetings

The highest-frequency communication task in any organization, and the one where a second language costs the most time. Framing, redirecting, summarizing and closing — including the diplomatic work of managing the person who won't stop talking.
We work with you on:
  • Framing an agenda and setting expectations
  • Language for redirecting and keeping to time
  • Summarizing decisions and assigning next steps
  • Managing dominant or silent participants
  • Interrupting and holding the floor politely
13

Virtual & Hybrid Collaboration

Command the call, even without the room.

Virtual & Hybrid Collaboration

Most second-language work now happens on a screen, where the cues that helped you are gone. Turn-taking without body language, tone when your voice is the only signal, and including the people who dialled in from somewhere else.
We work with you on:
  • Managing turn-taking without visual cues
  • Tone control when your voice is the only signal
  • Handling audio problems and interruptions gracefully
  • Including remote participants in a hybrid room
  • Structuring calls: agenda, recap, next steps
14

Giving & Receiving Feedback

Deliver feedback that lands, and receive it with grace.

Giving & Receiving Feedback

For managers and team members in bilingual workplaces, where feedback softened by a second language often stops registering as feedback at all. Structure, calibrated softening, and the cultural norms that decide how direct is too direct.
We work with you on:
  • Structuring constructive feedback (situation, impact, ask)
  • Softening critique without diluting the message
  • Receiving feedback and asking clarifying questions
  • Cultural calibration: direct versus indirect norms
  • Performance conversations and reviews
15

Business Writing in the AI Era

Write with judgment, not just with AI.

Business Writing in the AI Era

Your team already writes with AI. The risk has moved from bad grammar to fluent text that is subtly wrong in tone, too formal, too blunt, or culturally off — and to the writer who can no longer tell. We train the editing judgment, and the unassisted writing that real-time work still demands.
We work with you on:
  • Prompting AI for tone, formality and audience
  • Editing AI drafts that are too formal or too blunt
  • Knowing when a message needs your own voice
  • Writing unassisted in real time (chat, quick replies)
  • Emails, reports and documentation that hold up
16

Interviewing & Hiring

Run the interview, or win it, in your second language.

Interviewing & Hiring

Two audiences, one skill set. For hiring managers and HR: structured interviewing, probing questions and assessing a candidate fairly across a language gap. For professionals: answering behavioural questions and framing achievements without sounding boastful or too modest.
We work with you on:
  • Structured interviewing and probing follow-up questions
  • Assessing competencies fairly across a language gap
  • Answering behavioural questions (STAR vocabulary)
  • Framing achievements without sounding boastful
  • Extending an offer and negotiating final terms
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Pronunciation & Intelligibility

Be understood without repeating yourself.

Pronunciation & Intelligibility

Not accent elimination — intelligibility. We target the specific sounds, stress patterns and rhythms that make listeners ask you to repeat, and the comprehension side too: fast speech, unfamiliar accents and idioms on a client call. Your accent stays; the friction goes.
We work with you on:
  • Word stress, sentence rhythm and intonation
  • The sounds that actually cause misunderstanding
  • Understanding fast speech and unfamiliar accents
  • Diagnostic recording and a targeted sound inventory
  • Idioms and colloquialisms in real time
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