Business Communication Skills
Business Communication Skills
Possessing effective communication skills is a vital component of any business success story. Cactus will create and deliver a course around your needs, combining expert advice, a flexible approach, and excellent tuition.
Courses can focus on one, or several, modules.
Choose from the following:
A Business Communications Skills programme can be designed for both native and non-native speakers, and can last anywhere from ½ day to a period of months. We will work with you to maximise the return on your training investment.
Business Writing
Our trainers will work with you and your team to ensure that your written English has impact, gets to the point, and uses appropriate language.
The course will be tailored to your needs. Modules can include:
- Accuracy - punctuation, agreement, spelling
- Coherence - sentence structure, paragraphing, expressing complex ideas simply
- Key techniques - introduction, argument, emphasis
- Specific written formats - reports, presentations, emails.
As a result, not only will you establish stronger relationships with clients, suppliers and partners, you will also save considerable time and money otherwise spent on editing, re-writng and clarifying.
Voice training
There are many reasons why you might want to train your voice:
- To improve your vocal performance in presentations
- To reduce an accent
- To sound more cultured
- To eliminate nerves when speaking publicly.
Voice training will give you confidence when you speak and help you make a good impression in your working and private life.
Accent softening
Having an identifiably foreign accent can be a real liability in today's multi-cultural but impatient and rushed world. You may feel you are being stereotyped, passed over for promotion or maybe you are just tired of being asked to repeat yourself all the time.
An Accent Softening course will:
- Help you modify word stress, sentence stress, and intonation patterns
- Work on specific problem sounds
- Practise the way your lips, tongue and jaw move
- Look at how your mother tongue compares with standard British pronunciation.
While it will take time and practice, eventually using these changes will become second nature. Your accent will become less obtrusive, and listeners will no longer need to strain to understand what is being said.
Elocution
It may sound old-fashioned, but speaking well is as important today as it was in the past. People in the public eye, such as politicians and leading businessmen, have never stopped taking elocution lessons to improve their diction and enunciation.
We offer elocution coaching to help you:
- Reduce a regional accent
- Achieve a well-modulated voice
- Achieve greater clarity when speaking
- Avoid mumbling or using an excessively soft or loud voice.
As a result, you will be able to speak with greater effectiveness, confidence and impact.
Voice Training Workshops
We can also arrange ½ day & full-day Voice Training workshops for your team. These are entertaining, enlightening and extremely useful!
Voice Coaches
All our trainers are professionally qualified to teach all aspects of voice training. They have all completed the MA in Voice Studies at London's prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama. Many of our trainers teach Voice in leading drama schools such as RADA, as well as having many hundreds of hours experience coaching professionals - both native and non-native - outside the world of theatre.