BUMN BUSINESS ENGLISH CONVERSATION PROGRAM
A short course to develop productive skills enabling professionals to analyze, improve and provide solution to day-to-day work activities using English.
Program Objectives
- Building confidence and motivation
- Developing holistic language awareness in the key areas of structure, register, pronunciation and lexis
- Activating critical thinking skills
- Implementing active listening techniques
- Exploring communication strategies
Program Outline
No | Business Topic | Business Skills | Language Focus |
1 | Organizational Profile | Introduction, Discussing Professional Activity | Providing Factual Information |
2 | Getting Up To Date | Discussing Current Project & Development | Activities In Progress |
3 | SWOT Analysis | Discussing Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, & Threats | Comparing, Contrasting, Agreeing & Disagreeing |
4 | Problems & Solutions | Sharing Problems & Discussing Solutions, Handling Complaints | Giving Opinions, Agreeing & Disagreeing |
5 | Cultural Awareness | Anticipating Problems & Preparing Solutions | Vocabulary On Cultures, Making Suggestions, Offering Advices |
6 | FINAL PRESENTATION |
Session 1: Organizational profiles
Introduction, discussing professional activities
What?
- Doing introduction properly
- Talking about one’s role in an organization or company
- The Do’s and Dont’s in business meetings
How
- Role play
- Brainstorming
- Discussions
Role Play
At the end of the session, participants should be able to do a proper introduction and talk about his / her role at work.
Session 2: Getting up to date
Discussing current projects and development
What?
- Reporting progress
- Discussing issues in projects
How
- Web search
- Brainstorming
- Discussions
- Role Play
Goal
At the end of the session, participants should be able to talk and discuss about current issues and developing projects at work.
Session 3: SWOT analysis
Discussing strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats
What?
- Doing self SWOT analysis
- Doing SWOT analysis to company
How
- Understanding printed materials
- Brainstorming
- Discussions
- Role Play
Goal
At the end of the session, participants should be able to do self SWOT analysis and give suggestions to each other. Afterwards, do a SWOT analysis on the business and make recommendations for change and development.
Session 4: Problems and Solutions
Sharing problems and discussing solutions, handling complaints
What?
- Sharing problems at work
- Coming up with solutions
How
- Sharing sessions
- Brainstorming
- Discussions
- Role Play
Goal
At the end of the session, participants should be able to identify, analyze, share and provide a solution to problems.
Session 5: Cultural awareness
Anticipating problems and preparing solutions
What?
- Dealing with foreigner
- Being familiar with International business
etiquette
How
- Web search
- Brainstorming
- Discussions
- Role Play
Goal
At the end of the session, participants should be able to deal with foreigners in an international business setting by exhibiting an understanding of business etiquette
Session 6: Final presentation
Bringing it all together
- In this session, participants will conduct a presentation about an integrated topic related to SWOT analysis, world business culture, and business practice.
- Participants will be assessed based on their fluency and coherence, interactive communication, vocabulary range, and grammatical accuracy.