Prawdziwe straty w firmach przez brak szkoleń j?zykowych

Catchy tytu?? Nie martw si?, to nie jest click-bait i b?dzie mi?cho. Bój si? za to o swój angielski, bo skoro jest mowa o j?zykach w firmie - to artyku? pope?ni? w?a?nie w najcz??ciej u?ywanym j?zyku ?wiata. Na końcu lista 25 trudniejszych s?ówek z artyku?u... ????

About my background

I'm no longer a teacher, but I now manage the mentors who implement my teaching methods at my own language school. Thus, I do have some insights into what characterizes Business English Training and the associated benefits. My background lies in the world of business, customer service, and sales – quality sales, that is.

Today, we'll explore:

1. Your company's and employees' gains.
2. What your company loses without foreign languages.
3. Three outrageous economical examples.
4. And we shall answer the question if your employees leave you after you trained them.

How does your company benefit from language courses?

This list is extensive if your company genuinely needs language training (meaning it can be seen as an investment). Another condition is that you provide solid, personalized courses rather than a mere inexpensive employee perquisite.

Here are the advantages:

1. Trained employees ease the burden on your management and executive team.
2. They can handle a broader range of responsibilities.
3. You create an international brand image.
4. Hiring foreigners becomes a viable option.
5. Employee morale boost.
6. You elevate the qualifications and value of your workforce.
7. Your employees gain access to entirely new industry knowledge and content previously obscured behind a foreign language.
8. You can tap into a completely new customer profile.
9. You'll enter foreign markets.
10. And much more...

How many of these translate into increased profits for your company? How many of them reduce your costs, such as through higher employee retention? Detailed calculations and assumptions can only be made by you: The Business Owner; the chieftain and the strategist on the hill, overseeing the entire battlefield. I can merely provide some general statistics. Pun intended.

Where's the catch?

I strongly discourage foreign language acquisition in the workplace as a perk. Perks serve only one purpose: HR's influence on employees. They're supposed to be happy about getting something for free (morale booster).

But does this really bring your company closer to a specific goal? In the broader context, such perks lack:

• deeper meaning,
• sterling preparation,
• and hence they lack real impact and real change or value.

Foreign languages in your workplace must be a carefully considered investment.

What Does Your Company Lose Without Language Skills?

O-righty, let's just stop fvckn around and have a glance at some facts:

"A study by ELAN (...) found that a significant percentage of European companies suffer annual losses due to inadequate language and intercultural skills..." (via: mambiznes.pl)

I have a quick task for you: erase "money" from your vocabulary and instead - install this lovely little word: "resources". Of which we've got plenty of types: time, energy, currency and so on.

Every investment must yield a return in the form of increased resources (don't just focus on money, honey). Languages and communication impact company's operations on many levels. You probably didn't consider that language learning improves your employee's brain function, memory, and even protects against Alzheimer's and the like. Or did you?

Countrywide perspective

To illustrate the scale of the potential losses I mentioned earlier, I'll quote Madame Coussins from APPG, United Kingdom:

"The UK economy is already losing around ￡50 billion a year in lost contracts because of a lack of language skills in the workforce," (via: theguardian.com)

Yeah. Just do your numbers and keep in mind that this is the economy of a country that actually wields this global language as their mother-tongue.

We love comparisons to our western neighbors...

"The law in most federal states in Germany states that your employer must offer you five days of Bildungsurlaub or 'educational leave' per year." (Via: myjobgermany.com)

This means that every year, a German employer must allocate 5 working days or 40 hours to educate and develop their employee. In other words, the employee must spend nearly an hour each week on self-improvement during work, as required by law.

"Required by law" means sheer minimum

You can safely assume that the real competitors do much more than that, so they could actually attract the best talents to their organisation. What about us, in Poland? Are you already willing to better your own subordinates for the greater good of your company? Or are you nonsensically scared that they are going to escape your fellowship?

Do they really quit without any reason?

Let's shift our perspective. An invested employee is a good employee, so provide them with tangible benefits that extend beyond the monthly salary, such as genuinely engaging language course. Not the cheap, one-size-fits-all kind...

What's in it for you?

Peace of mind? Give them something that truly makes them better and more valuable each week. Don't fear that they quit. If you don't train them, they're going to leave you and go to a place that... surprise, surprise - invests in them in a thought-through manner.

How do you achieve that with a language course?

That's easy.

YOU don't do that.

Neither your HR, assistant nor your mom does. As long as they are not highly qualified specialists: linguists, neurolinguists or practitioners who intrinsically understand some dope shyt like:

• how to audit and gauge the real communication skills of your employees
• how to set up the whole course with each mentee to play along with company's goals
• how the brain works while acquiring new linguistic competence
• how the brain works when it wants to use the language spontaneously
• how to actually insert the linguistic knowledge into your brain
• (and the list goes on and on...)

Summa summarum

Improve the self-worth of your employees by providing them with a real skill that can be used in their personal life. In consequence, it will make them practice these skills more frequently in their professional life.

Your company's revenue will smile and wink at you, growing as fast as the inflation rate in Poland this past year. Simultaneously, your CFO shall notice lesser expenses due to better retention and all these indirect things we strongly believe that they just work for us.

Vocabulary

1. Characterizes - Charakteryzuje
2. Insight - Wgl?d w co?
3. Interlocutor - Rozmówca
4. Employee - Pracowniczy (w kontek?cie drugiego akapitu)
5. Perquisite - Benefit pracowniczy
6. To ease - U?atwi?, odci??y?
7. Burden - Brzemi?, ci??ar
8. To tap into - Uzyska?, wykorzysta?
9. Retention - "Zatrzymanie pracownika"
10. Perk - Korzy?? dodatkowa, bonus, benefit
11. Impact - Wp?yw
12. Significant - Znacz?cy
13. Inadequate - Niewystarczaj?cy
14. Sterling - Rzetelny, niezawodny
15. Hence - Wi?c, st?d, dlatego
16. Resources - Zasoby
17. Wields - W?ada
18. To yield - Dawa?, dostarczy?
19. Tangible - Namacalny
20. Beyond - Poza
21. Thorough - Dok?adny
22. To gauge - Ocenia?, mierzy?
23. Sheer - Samo (w kontek?cie z tego artyku?u)
24. Nonsensically - Bezsensownie g?upio
25. Intrinsically - Rzeczywi?cie, z natury rzeczy

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