‘Netflix English’ isn’t business English – and costs companies €1M every year.

Are your trainings failing to close that gap?

Your team is falling into a gap – the gap between how much influence they believe they have with English speakers – and the hard financial reality.

It’s all very well when foreigners work with sympathetic English listeners. But business isn’t done with sympathetic listeners – business is with people who have their own problems to solve, lack of time to do it, 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 me put some numbers on it.

ELAN reports that 11% of SMEs have lost export contracts directly from language gaps, while 10+ firms have lost over €1M each. Meanwhile, up to 50% of executives report direct financial losses from language barriers (Slator). Why? Because poor English communication causes rework, delays, failed initiatives, brand damage and lost clients.

The gap is real.

‘Good enough’ English is far from good enough, and the skills gap is hurting your bottom line.

Bridging the gap

After my Influence Workshop, your people will be able to apply the right English for the right person at the right time. 

This means there is no ambiguity in agreements, feedback, and the brief. Handovers and international collaboration are done smoothly with everyone onboard. Products and projects are delivered on-budget and to-deadline. Your brand and reputation add value to the organisation.

An intervention – not a language class.

– A full day of intensive skill development.

– Custom-designed to solve your people’s communication gaps.

– Interactive tasks to stress-test learnings in a safe environment.

– Includes a pre-workshop diagnostic. This creates eight English scenarios for the workshop.

– The Register Map and Matrix card – to clarify ambiguous situations, and act on them.

– A 30-day follow-up group session to assess transformation, and answer questions.

To ensure success for the attendees, we define outcomes together before the workshop and review them in a debrief session. Your team leaves with clear next steps they own and can deliver on.

Take this 2‑minute questionnaire to get an English Friction Snapshot of your team and see the risk it poses to your company.