“Netflix English” isn’t business English – and it costs companies €1M every year.
Your team is falling into a gap.
The gap between their overconfidence in English and the financial reality.
Are your trainings failing to close that gap?
Things go fine when your team works with sympathetic English speakers – but business isn’t done with sympathetic listeners. Business is with people who have their own problem to solve, lack of time to do so, and targets to be met. Babysitting foreign counterparts is not part of their job.
That’s where the gap lives. Between the presumed level your people think they are at, and the stressed native English speaker.
Let’s put some numbers on it.
“11% of SMEs have lost export contracts directly from language gaps”
“10+ firms have lost over €1M each”(ELAN)
“Up to 50% of executives report direct financial losses from language barriers” (Slator).
“Giving presentations in London has been a milestone for me. They have led to more opportunities – and a strong network of business relationships.”
“Andrew moved me to the next level and made me think in advance about presentation, communication, and more.”
Closing the gap – the Influence workshop
Power skills under pressure
A full day of intensive skill development. After which, your people will be able to hold their ground under pressure, clarify where there’s vagueness, and handle the code-switching that confuses so many foreign counterparts. Your bottom line is protected – the gap is closed.
So – where is your gap?
Take the 2‑minute questionnaire to get the English Gap Snapshot.
It gives you the big picture for your team, and the risks the gap poses to your organisation.
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