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.

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.

This is not a language course. It is a commercial intervention – your people enter my workshop with a skills gap, and leave with a map and the tools to use it.

The Influence Workshop is a full-day of intensive skill development.

• The package includes a pre-workshop online diagnostic tool. This helps me shape your people’s scenario bank – 10 commercial English scenarios specific to your industry.

• My Register Map and Matrix card gives your people a powerful way to clarify ambiguous situations – and act on them.

• A 30-day group follow-up session online to assess transfer and respond to questions.

If your team does not leave the workshop with skills they can use in their next conversation, I offer a group follow-up session (60 minutes) at no charge.

How well is your organisation closing the gap?

Reply SNAPSHOT and I’ll send you the 5-minute checklist.