If you're in international business
there have probably been moments
in your career where you've realized that your level
of English was hurting you rather than helping you.
Fortunately, there are some English coaching
strategies that can help you get the English level
that you need faster.
And today you'll learn my three step process
for tackling professional English problems.
Quickly. Let's go.
Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina
and welcome to Business English with Christina.
I'm a neuro language coach
and the owner of an international business
and I've put some of my best advice
for helping you into this special series of short videos.
And if you want to be sure to get all
of the videos in this series, plus a special invitation
to a free workshop that I'm holding later this month
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First, let me tell you something that my expert coaches
and I tell our clients who are
under a lot of pressure to perform in English.
You know, when you worry
that you might lose a job opportunity
or lose your credibility
in your current job because of your English, well
don't wait until you feel totally confident
in English to use your English for business.
In fact, you don't need to be perfect
at English to be good at your job.
Maybe you need to improve your English
for a specific skill or situation that is important
for you right now to focus just on improving that one skill.
Right now, you need concrete lessons, focus lessons
not theory about grammar
and prepositions and things like that.
That's not what will make the difference.
And just take a minute and think about that.
What is the one skill
or situation that would be most important
for you to improve right now?
This answer is different for everyone.
There's no right answer, but you can probably think of one
maybe two things that you really need to improve right now.
These are your priorities
and that's what you need to focus on first.
Rather, rather you are working
by yourself or with one of my English coaches.
Let me give you an example.
I have a client who needed to attend professional
conferences in English
and she could understand well in English
but when she had to speak, she felt in her words terrible.
But you know, she felt like her words were too simple
that she wasn't autonomous enough, spontaneous enough
and she just didn't feel comfortable introducing herself
or even just asking, you know
where to go to see what room a specific presentation was in.
And maybe you felt similar
in a similar or a different situation in English.
And you know, we all want to put our best foot forward.
We all want to do our best and give a good impression.
And it can feel scary when you know
that you're not at your best.
But the first step
to eliminating a problem is to identify it
and then you can begin working on it.
Now, how do you identify it?
Now, I'll be honest
this is not always the easiest thing to do.
And this is where it can be useful to bring in a coach
a colleague, some, you know, someone external to
help you to get a different perspective on it.
But what you want to look
for is what is the one thing that will have
the biggest impact on your work right now?
Something that just by I would say
changing that situation or changing
eliminating your frustrations around that situation
it's going to make your life just feel so much easier.
And when I was working with that client
and we were talking about all
of the different things that she needed to do in English
she realized that she was going to these conferences
spending a lot of time and money
but not really getting a return on investment
because she was afraid to approach people to go talk
to people, to engage, and of course
to come away from that conference with contacts
maybe potential projects
prospects who were interested in her service, et cetera.
And so that's what we focused on.
And she realized that in fact
her English wasn't as terrible as she imagined it.
In fact, she had actually a very good level of English
but she just didn't know how to go into that situation
what to say, how to feel confident doing it.
And when we worked on it, it made all the difference.
So in this video series
I'm going to offer you the same kind
of help that I would offer to my private clients.
We're gonna take something that maybe seems very big
and very difficult for you and break it
down and bring in my cat
to the video just for an actual, a little bit
of added fun because hey, everybody loves cat videos
right? Anyway, no.
We're gonna take something that you might think is
very difficult and complex and make it simpler and doable.
And that is your elevator pitch in English.
It's a great way to start any business conversation
in English so it can help you now or in the future
as your career, as your business grows and progresses.
So are you with me?
In our next video, we're gonna look
look at how to start your own elevator pitch.
In English
you'll learn how to introduce yourself, what to say.
And of course we're gonna make it simple.
We're gonna start small so
that you can learn something very useful very fast
because you can absolutely do this.
Now, if you want to be sure to get those future videos
in this series, plus an invitation
to a free interactive workshop that I'll do later
in this month, the link below the video
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so that you get everything you need to start working
on your pitch in English right now.
And also, when you do that, you're going to be the first
on the list to get some news about something very
special that's coming up later this month.
Also, it's something that my team of expert coaches and I
we have worked on and perfected over time.
And I know that it's gonna help you to feel more
confident communicating in English in your job.
So you definitely want to get all of that.
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Thanks so much for improving your business skills
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