Courses for companies

We offer company goal-oriented courses tailored to your employees specific needs. Our language trainers come to you so that you can time effectively learn or refresh your German.

Define your own time-schedule and learning speed.
An ideal combination of active dialogues and job-related specific vocabulary.
Our language trainer is exclusively yours and will compile a special learning program for your employees’ particular goals.

DAS SPRACHENSTUDIO additionally offers the following specialized business courses:

First Class – German: business level
Business Class – German Know-how: advanced level
Office Management – German for secretaries and office assistants
Intercultural Coaching – goal-oriented speech in German
Cocktail Talk – speak German in an informal context

First Class

Executive managers often hold positions in which language proficiency is key for a companies success and their needs differ from those of other employees in the intensity of professional rigorousness, importance, and consequence.

Emphasized in this program are the development of the following skills:

Negotiation skills
Professional organisation and leadership in conferences and meetings
Presentations
Reading skills with emphasis on specific business publications
Writing skills with emphasis on business letters and electronic correspondence
Language specific rethoric: agreeing and disagreeing, interrupting, clarifying and confirming, asking for comments, summarising, asking appropriate questions, challenging/defending an opinion, persuading and compromising, making proposals, opening/closing meetings.

Business Class

The Business-Class Program targets the representatives of your company who hold increased communicative positions. These employees are advised to enhance skills necessary for the smooth communication commonly generated by daily correspondence in international business.

Therefore, this program entails the development and improvement
of the following skills:

Writing skills with emphasis on reports, memos, business letters, and electronic correspondence
Reading skills with emphasis on business correspondence
Interviewing techniques
Telephone etiquette
Organization of conferences and meetings

Office Management

As the first point of contact between you and your business partners, smooth and accurate communication skills are essential requirements for these employees. To develop and improve the skills necessary for professional communication of office managers this program emphasizes the following areas:

Telephone etiquette
Writing skills emphasizing electronic correspondence, letters, and reports
Reading skills emphasizing electronic correspondence and letters
Communication in the office
Customer service

Inter-Cultural Coaching

For effective international relationships it is essential to not only master proficiency in the required language but also to be aware of your business partner’s cultural mannerisms. This program entails coprehensive coaching in the nuts and bolts of the target countries behaviors in business to avoid costly and possibly detrimental misunderstandings and difficulties.

During this course the following elements are considered:

Accurate and culturally sensitive communication in business
Knowledge of foreign company culture and national economics
Profession specific culturally sensitive business communication

Cocktail Talk

It is not uncommon that important business deals and networking opportunities present themselves during more informal situations such as cocktail parties, dinners, and socials. It is therefore essential that your companies representatives are highly efficient in the art of small talk in your target langauge. During this course, the essentials of informal self-marketing are considered emphasizing the following elements:

Comfortably and effectively perform small talk in social sitations
Be able to present yourself and your company informally
Be funny, charismatic, and memorable in your target language