Need Help Designing an English Training Session for Employees with Basic Skills

Hi all,

I need urgent help. In my company, I need to conduct a training session to improve the English speaking skills of employees. Most of them are extremely poor in English and often make silly spelling mistakes with commonly used words.

Can anyone help me with the content for this training session? Currently, I am planning to cover basic English grammar similar to what is taught to students in the 2nd or 3rd grade.

Please reply.
Thank you.

Attached is one file for your reference. Hope you can extract from that as per your requirement!

Sincere advice: train them politely and pleasantly.

It's a sensitive issue to teach English to working professionals. You would have to make it very interactive. I suggest using a combination of audio-visual tools. You can also show some cartoon movies. The program should be structured as a one to two-hour session each day spread over a few days. In addition to written materials, spoken words are also crucial. Once you have developed the program, you can share the key points with us for feedback.

Hi Bhavna,

Please see the attached file. Hope this helps you.

I think you cannot really teach your employees good English unless you leave all other activities and dedicate all your time towards it. You must only guide them. Collect samples from the net for Common English Errors, Communication Skills, Common Spelling Errors, etc., and distribute.

I think your task lies in getting your employees interested in learning English and understanding the importance. Ask some enthusiastic employees to help create content which is directly helpful in office activities such as How to write emails, How to make the most of meetings, etc.

You can also ask the managers to set communication skills as a KRA. If everything else fails, this will work.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Shikha

Hi Bhavna,

You can contact the British School of Languages. They offer various courses for organizations where English learning is required. We engaged BSL to conduct English classes at our office, and the results were quite good. They can even tailor-make packages as per your needs.

Regards,
GJ

Please suggest some more implementations in HR apart from recruitments and compensation.

Regards,
Nidhi

Hi Shikha,

Also, please mention the approximate budget within which you want this training to happen. Starting with GRAMMAR is fine. Additionally, there are books available on words used in day-to-day business communication, etc. A simple, cheap, and effective manner of imparting learning. You may also think of rolling out a methodology of sharing one or two words daily and encouraging people to use that in any of their emails that they send on that day. More such simple, cost-effective ideas. Hope it helps.

Cheers

Hi Bhavna!

I don't think I can give suggestion to you, but let me share what generally I do.
As per my knowledge whoever passed out their schooling will have the required English knowledge to speak and write. This need not be universal truth, so I just find out the standards of the trainees. I ask them whether they can understand my language while I am speaking in English or not. Find out whether they are in position to feel the mistakes when somebody uses wrong grammar, they need not be able to say what exactly the mistake is. If they can do both of the above, I just teach them tenses and make them to write too many own sentences. I make them to understand which tense should be used at a particular situation.
Fist I let them write positive sentences and then ask them to convert the same in to interrogative form. This will make them to think.
If they are not in position to understand my language, then there is no other option than teaching everything to them.
Most important thing is spelling mistakes are very common as Mr. Premm77 could catch one basic mistake in our mails. For the level of employees that you have mentioned, it's not that important. I don't think we can judge based on that.

Thanks and regards

Hi Bhavna!

I don't think I can give suggestion to you, but let me share what generally I do.
As per my knowledge whoever passed out their schooling will have the required English knowledge to speak and write. This need not be universal truth, so I just find out the standards of the trainees. I ask them whether they can understand my language while I am speaking in English or not. Find out whether they are in position to feel the mistakes when somebody uses wrong grammar, they need not be able to say what exactly the mistake is. If they can do both of the above, I just teach them tenses and make them to write too many own sentences. I make them to understand which tense should be used at a particular situation.
Fist I let them write positive sentences and then ask them to convert the same in to interrogative form. This will make them to think.
If they are not in position to understand my language, then there is no other option than teaching everything to them.
Most important thing is spelling mistakes are very common as Mr. Premm77 could catch one basic mistake in our mails. For the level of employees that you have mentioned, it's not that important. I don't think we can judge based on that.

Thanks and regards