Study, work and live abroad
We Solve problems - some examples
Small business
You have to sell your product aboard for the first time, you have an important lead and want to show them your product.
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How do you show them its best features and demonstrate its value
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In a way that gets them interested?
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Remembering they have different cultural expectations?
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Perhaps you want to widen your list of suppliers abroad
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How do you negotiate better prices and delivery terms?
Real Estate
You have a Foreign customer who wants to buy an expensive property.
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Can you explain how Italian property purchase works when they only understand British, French or American processes?
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Can you highlight the differences in mortgage offerings?
You want to produce videos of your properties to increase interest
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Do you understand well the things foreigners will be looking for and how they should be presented?
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Should you go short or long for your target audience?
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Do you have the right pronunciation and style to ensure the target audience feels at home?
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Should you be casual or formal in your style?
International Business
You have to do a presentation to senior management in English to justify an investment or a sales opportunity. You want to make a good impression.
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Can you be sure your English is not seen as "maccheronico"?
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Can you get the pitch - the level right for your audience used to a different style of presentation?
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How should you present the numbers and benefits?
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Will you understand their questions?
Event Speaking
You are going to an International Congress to present a paper.
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How will you deliver the presentation to create interest, get support and build contacts?
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Will your pronunciation be brilliant?
In summary
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We can help in many different ways with these kinds of everyday issues that businesses have to confront.
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We don't teach "Business English" from a text book. We use our international business experience to focus on solving your real issues.
David Mullens
With a long career in IT and IT outsourcing David's career started in the UK and moved to Europe as a Program Director in the European Business Development division of a $15bn US multinational, working on business opportunities in the billion dollar bracket. This including running a cross-Europe due diligence based in Paris and involved pioneering work on sales methodologies for large opportunities with a particular focus on communication and qualification and closing strategies.
This was followed by management of the integration of 3 companies in the Italian market into the European organisation and the management of the $70bn Financial Services division in Italy, doubling it in size in 2 years, reporting to the Financial Services (Europe) President.
Latterly he has enjoyed helping people and companies deal with the issues of working in and with multinationals and their different cultural norms. This has been supplemented at a more local level helping people win their dream jobs, leveraging his knowledge of recruitment and business processes in the public and private sectors in Europe and the USA, successfully preparing people for the entire recruitment process from understanding the target company/organisation and their needs, producing a solid and focused set of messages to express key competences or mitigate apparent issues, through to practice interviewing to build confidence.