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Being more successful in business is not just about being the best at what you do, it's about connecting with people and creating relationships - but we cannot do that unless we feel really comfortable and confident that we are communicating effectively. Usually you only get one chance to make a first impression and that impression has to be a good one.

In the competitive environment in which we work it makes all the difference to speak the language of business, like a local, because that's when the real communication starts. You want to be able to make your counterpart focus on your message, not on your mistakes.

If this resonates with you, Sylvia Clements from Stand By Bussum and Richard Kohn from Kohnsulting invite you to the prize winning Language Exchange week, a Dutch-English interactive immersion training course for businesspeople looking to improve their foreign language communication skills.

You’ll acquire as much of your skills from your peers as you will from the facilitators. As you learn Dutch-English, you will be working side by side with native speakers, who want to learn your language: You help them, they help you – we call it tandem learning. 

If you are looking for a painless way of improving your business language skills that focuses on the person and not the process, the Language Exchange week is the answer. Not only will we help you to improve and perfect your business language skills using our innovative and highly interactive learning scheme, you'll learn a lot about yourself and how to be better in business.

Over our five day, full time residential training course, while acquiring and developing your language skills, you will also get the chance to develop business ideas, brainstorm your greatest business challenges with your peers, learn about creating high performance cultures, undertake compelling personal development exercises and complete critical communication projects designed to improve your chances of business success.

We work on the principle that you learn best by doing or teaching what you like. So, during this training course, you will get the chance to work on projects about which you are enthusiastic, or which require your time and energy now – while acquiring improved skills to deal with them in the chosen course language.

You will be spending your time using your business skills, in real life experiences, interacting with your peers and your environment. There are no language classrooms, grammar lessons or ‘by rote’ learning, instead you'll get customised, individual support and encouragement and lots and lots of time to use, practice, improve and perfect your language skills.

This is no easy option because instead of hours spent in language labs you spend those hours with native speakers, using your chosen course language the whole time:  So that the next time you communicate once the week is over, you make a difference and an impact with your audience.

When and Where?

There is no next date set for this course. Please let us know if you would be interested for this Course. A possible location could be:

http://www.hoorneboeg.nl

 Located next to the Hilversumse Bos in 13 hectares of stunning, peaceful countryside the Hoorneboeg is ideal and unique learning environment in which to concentrate all your energies to acquiring your improved language skills.

How Much?

The fees for the Language Exchange week are €1995 per week per participant if the location is Hoorneboeg. 

For this price participants will get:

• 5 nights accommodation at the Hoorneboeg Conference Centre (single rooms)
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner, coffee, tea and all snacks during the day
• European Award Winning Tandem Training Methodology
• All course materials
• Full time language exchange experience
• Personalised, customised and tailored learning plans and objectives
• Pre and post course individual language level assessment through the ECFR (European Common Framework of Reference)
• Families invited to final day presentations and farewell dinner (no supplemental charge)
• Guest teachers and activities throughout the week
• Free MBTI assessment and business consultancy session with our expert facilitators
• Learning about important verbal and non verbal communications within the chosen course language
• Numerous alternative training options designed around the participants’ own preferences
• Opportunity to complete business critical projects with input from peers and management consultant experts

Participants are only asked to pay additionally for drinks from the Language Exchange bar and personal phone calls