How can I improve my company's English level?
Introduction
As an HR manager, your goal is to take your company to the next level.
You want the best for your employees and executives, and your strategy is probably focused on making the most of every available tool to improve the team's English level.
Perhaps your employees are very busy, tired, or demotivated due to negative learning experiences or courses that failed to meet expectations.
In addition to finding the ideal course that suits your team's needs, we recommend applying the following principles to improve your company's English level.
1. Get the whole team involved
The challenge of learning English should not be a collection of isolated efforts, but rather a shared commitment that brings everyone together around the same goal.
For your company, it is important to help the team understand that mastering a second language will bring both individual and collective benefits, and that if they do it together, the chances of success multiply.
2. Offer incentives
Instead of putting pressure on people or issuing warnings, why not motivate your team with rewards along the way? For example, you could give books to the top-performing learners.
It does not have to be anything sophisticated. It could simply be an outing or a dinner for those who stand out for their consistency or who clearly show progress.
Giving time back is another alternative, such as letting them leave a few hours early at the end of the day: a well-deserved break for those who are meeting their goals.
3. Create real and virtual practice spaces
After a period of learning, it becomes essential to start putting acquired knowledge into practice.
Conversation clubs can be an excellent opportunity. As an HR manager, you could organise them face-to-face at specific times and in dedicated spaces within the company.
Virtual spaces such as chats or social networks are also useful alternatives through which your team can interact and share what they have learned.
4. Make English part of everyday company life
It is important to make the most of the small opportunities and situations that naturally arise during the working day so that English becomes a consistent presence.
Greeting colleagues in English at the start of the day, signage and labels in shared spaces, communication such as emails and internal notices, and reading material in English such as magazines and videos all help.
Ultimately, the aim is to build an organisational culture that integrates English in a simple and natural way so that it becomes part of daily life within the company.
5. Assess and set goals
To establish clear goals for English learning within the company, you first need to understand the starting point. That is why it is important to assess your employees' English level.
ABA Corporate includes a free English level test in its learning platform, allowing both learners and the HR team to understand the company's level.
Through the Extranet platform, you can generate individual and group reports not only from the initial test, but throughout the whole learning journey.
Ongoing employee assessment makes it possible to optimise the time and budget invested, make adjustments along the way, and define new strategies to achieve learning goals.
6. Flexible and effective online methodology
In our example, after trying different courses, Andrea decided that the methodology best suited to her company's needs was an online one.
Why? Mainly because it gives employees the flexibility to connect from any device, whether mobile, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, at whatever time works best for them, regardless of location or session length.
In addition, ABA Corporate's online platform makes it possible to monitor and assess your team's English level continuously and in real time.
We invite you to discover more about the advantages we can offer your company. Register your team free of charge for 7 days and see for yourself the many benefits of ABA Corporate's online methodology.