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INDIVIDUAL TRAINING - TELL ME MORE
Arrival and accommodation
Arrival is usually through London Stansted
Airport (the nearest to Colchester), or another airport, or
London's Waterloo Station with Eurostar. There you can be
collected by private taxi and taken to your host family in
time for dinner. The host families are carefully selected
and generally from a business or professional background:
they are friendly and welcoming, their homes are very comfortable,
and they enjoy discussing a range of subjects with their visitors,
whom they treat as family guests.
There is nothing for you to pay directly to the driver or
family, as these charges are shown on the final invoice sent
to your company.
Training
During the seminar, you will not only
improve your general English in terms of grammar and vocabulary
but will also be able to prepare and practise, with your trainers,
the situations which are most important to you in your own
work, for example negotiations, meetings, telephone calls
or presentations. The trainers will simulate these situations
with you in detail to give you the language support and cultural
awareness which will help you manage them successfully and
maximise your personal confidence and credibility in them.
Video recording is used to give you feedback on the impression
which you create in certain situations in English.
Every individual seminar is different!
Examples of content include:
 key
expressions to manage a conversation and ensure  total
clarity and understanding
how
to disagree, or take a firm position, while
maintaining
a positive relationship
useful
phrases to start, progress, focus and summarise
meetings
or telephone calls efficiently
how
to prepare and deliver an effective presentation in
line
with international expectations
tactics
and language for starting and continuing
interesting
social conversations
The training day
This runs from 9am to 4.30pm, with
a mid-morning break and lunch between 1pm and 2.15pm. You
will usually work with two trainers, but mainly with the one
who is principally responsible for your course. When you need
more than one trainer - to practise meetings, for example
- this will be arranged.
It is not necessary for you to wear formal
clothes. We usually invite two external lunch visitors per
week from a similar activity to your own, but they know that
you are doing a training course and so even on those days
it is not necessary for you to be formal unless you wish to
do so.
Other activities
We usually take participants on a short
visit of the town, but, because the week is very intensive,
it would not be easy for you to go to London during the week
for an evening meeting, for example. Participants on a two-week
course often choose to spend a day at the weekend in London,
or instead visit the historic town of Colchester or the region,
or simply stay with the family and join in with their activities.
Before the course
After you return the booking form and
questionnaires sent to you, we will contact you to discuss
your needs further and give you details of your host family.
It is not necessary for you to contact the family directly
before your arrival, but please let us know which flights
you have reserved! Please be sure to bring with you any papers,
presentations or other support which may be useful in the
preparation and practice of your target situations.
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