Our Business Package – 747.00 USD per person

People from all over the world take Speech Active training to speak clear English that people understand easily and to speak English with more confidence. 

Please watch our tour video to find out more about how your staff will improve with Speech Active.

Our Business package is a combination of online training and 1:1 Zoom sessions with an assessment and post-course progress summary. 

HOW TO GET STARTED:

Click below and choose the ‘Speech Active Business’ option at the bottom of the page.

Select the number of staff you are enrolling. Select the employee’s first language or select ‘Other’ as this can be provided later.   

The details entered at the check out will be the card holder details so please email us (info @ speechactive.com) the following details for each staff member:

–  First name
–  Last name
–  First language
–  Email address
–  Mobile number 

Our Business Package $985 AUD per person

What makes our English Pronunciation Training for Professionals so unique?

 With over 15 years of experience, our staff approach work with a high level of care and a high regard for privacy and professionalism. 

Speech Active Courses are a fantastic addition to the professional development options you offer your team. Adding Speech Active courses to a suite of PD options to your staff means that staff can opt in to the course when they feel they are ready and motivated to work on this area. Many of our clients prefer their study for English improvement to be kept confidential. Our program allows them to study in the privacy of their own home.  

This is an online, self paced course with 1:1 Zoom sessions. Your staff member will receive weekly emails to help them keep on track with their online lessons and audio practice. We check in with your staff member at 6 points during the course – for the English Pronunciation Assessment at the start, for the 4 1:1 Zoom sessions and then at the end of the course when we email their progress summary. They can call or email us anytime for extra assistance. 

GREATER SPEAKING CONFIDENCE

Issues with confidence can mean a staff member holds back from contributing to group discussions. It can mean they opt for emails when a phone call or face to face discussion would be more appropriate. Supporting a staff member with improving their speech clarity can be a life changing thing to do. After all, the way we speak affects every interaction we have.

Clear communication is critical in all parts of business and essential services. Effective spoken communication has significant financial benefits and in all workplaces, and for some such as civil engineering and medical professionals- safety benefits as well. We have extensive experience assisting doctors, nurses, IT professionals, engineers and people working in the business and finance industry.

Our courses provide the structure that professionals need. Many professionals want to improve pronunciation and spoken English skills but they don’t know where to start. Our courses help professionals speak clear English and they focus on developing clear pronunciation of vowels and consonants, word stress and emphasis, sentence stress, rate of speaking, volume, general mouth position, use and pronunciation of past tense endings and other key areas affecting clarity. Each course is different because speakers from different backgrounds have different training needs.

Our courses focus on pronunciation skills and some related areas such as plurals and past tense. Our training does not focus directly on grammar and vocabulary, although many of our students experience improvements in these areas because they practising and paying more attention to their spoken English. 

MORE ON ACCENT VS SPEECH CLARITY

Our courses do not teach a specific accent. The focus of our training is on speaking clear English, regardless of accent. Accents are a wonderful part of someone’s identity. We do not work to reduce or eliminate someone’s accent. A person can have a strong accent and still be clear to listeners. Only some parts of accent and speech affect how clear you are to listeners and this is what we focus on. Our focus is on changing the required parts of a persons pronunciation to ensure their message is clear and easily received by listeners.

It is our belief that terms like ‘accent reduction training’ and ‘accent modification training’ should not be used. Let’s shift the focus away from accent and focus only on what’s require for clear English that is easily understood by listeners. For more on this please read our article on How to Raise The Topic of English Pronunciation Training with Staff.

While working to developing pronunciation skills, our students also develop listening skills, their understanding of English idioms and expressions that are commonly used in the workplace and conversational English too. Lessons are themed on such areas as English for Networking, English for Meetings, English for Interviews, English for conference calls and phone calls and small talk and more.

We have been providing online pronunciation services to small, medium and large businesses for the last 15 years. Our training has helped staff achieve substantial career and personal gains – as well as leading to much happier job satisfaction.

Do you have questions? There is some good information in our FAQs.

To discuss Speech Active training or the needs of your staff member/s please complete the form below or call Georgie on +61 411 295 828 or email: info @ speechactive.com

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