Business Conversation Skills for the Nonnative English Speaker Seminar # 2150

Express your ideas directly and clearly using the conventions of American verbal and nonverbal communication.

For nonnative English speakers, opportunities lie in knowing how to express your ideas in any business conversation correctly and confidently. This comprehensive two-day workshop will improve your conversation skills on all levels through interactive discussions and case studies. You will gain the confidence you need to speak your mind at work and create a style of business conversation that works for you and will help you achieve your professional and organizational goals.

How You Will Benefit

• Express yourself in a way that will increase self-confidence
• Recognize business conversational pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Develop skills to recognize different styles in business conversations
• Gain the ability to become assertive and focus on the issues being addressed
• Increase your knowledge of body language and other nonverbal communication
• Select effective business language, patterns of delivery and structures

What You Will Cover

• Apply cultural factors to conduct audience analyses and plan successful business conversations
• Recognize the elements of American nonverbal behaviors and their place in conversations
• Choose vocabulary that is clear, culturally appropriate and promotes conversation
• Apply fundamental American grammar rules correctly
• Assemble messages to deliver proper emphasis and meaning using verbal and nonverbal elements
• Apply multisensory listening skills to reduce misunderstandings and promote conversations
• Evaluate how to influence others through an analysis of the situation and of your conversation partner’s position, needs and responsibilities
• Recognize that American business communication is about selling ideas both inside and outside the organization
• Action Planning

Who Should Attend

Nonnative English-speaking business professionals who have a solid knowledge of the American English language but find difficulty in verbal and nonverbal aspects of business conversation in U.S. companies.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

2 days / 1.2 CEUs
Nonmembers $1,795 / AMA Members $1,595 / GSA $1,366

Schedule

We have 10 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between December 4, 2008 and August 6, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form