Hello Sangeetha
Shikha has made some very practical observations and suggestions. To that let me add a few thoughts.
- building up on the third point made by Shikha there must be a top down approach to tackling the problem. The seniors must be requested to implement 'English ' only at work policy and this will then percolate down the line.
- if you have a bulletin board, start a small campaign to have interesting post in English which can be contributed by employees. It can be downloads of interesting forwards or blogs, cutting from newspaper or magazines - the focus being inspirational / motivational material and /or informational material. To make it more participative and competitive, you can even have prize for the best post for the week / fortnight / month.
- depending on the number of employees and the type of industry you are in there could be other motivational means like having a book review or book reading session / public speaking sessions / sharing on a theme in English, once a week to be held department wise or company wide.
- often employees speak in the local language because of peer pressure, where the natives speaking in English are subtly made fun of or sarcastically responded too as being too anglicized. You would therefore have to take a sterner view with management support that ' English' is the medium of communication officially. However this can be tricky since there are enough 'local language' fanatics in all states who can inject nuisance value to your noble intentions.
Trust these suggestions help you in your quest to encourage your employees to use English more often in their official communication.
Regards
Jacob
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