Building English Skills for the Workplace
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Who is it for
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Location
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145 Lorong Ah Soo #06-145, Hougang, SG, Singapore View Map
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Premise
Globalization has opened up a world of opportunities. Are your key employees maximizing their opportunity to build confidence and capability for relevant workplace communication? Join a learning circle to practice and develop communication skills on a regular & continuing basis with each other and a international facilitator.
Description
A research study conducted in 2015 by Pamela Rausch, named The Relationship between English Speaking and Writing Proficiency and Its Implications for Instruction, gives us interesting details about the connection between writing and speaking.
English language learners can master everyday conversational language with moderate effort. However, they struggle to master the syntax and vocabulary needed for academic writing. They lack argumentative skills in the language they are learning.
This research showed that if the learners have skills to produce academic language in writing, they can transfer the argumentative skills to language speaking skills. Since writing is a slower process than speaking, you have more time to think how to use the words properly. With time and practice, you’ll get faster. As you’re getting better, it will be easier for you to translate those skills to your speaking practice. Your English speaking skills will improve by leaps and bounds!
With writing, you’re paying attention to several things at once:
1. Ideas
2. Organization
3. Word choice
4. Authentic voice
5. Sentence structure
6. Grammar and spelling
You’ll be a fluent speaker in the English language when you pay attention to all above-listed aspects (minus the spelling) without getting confused through your speech. You’ll come to that point when things come naturally to you. The more you write, the sooner you’ll experience such progress.
Learning circles are an effective framework for Digital Organization Development. Learning circles owe its origin to Study Circles from Sweden. Some of the core principles include equality of participants, facilitated learning not training, a collaborative and not competitive environment and balancing knowledge acquisition with social communication.
Key Learnings
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To build a habit of regular practice in English
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To enhance Listening, Reading & Writing skills, the foundation for good Speaking skills
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To effectively share your opinion on relevant business topics and themes
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To participate and appreciate collective learning
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To maximize productivity for learning at the workplace
Pre-requisites
> PC, laptop, tablet, mobile device (with a keyboard helpful)
> Internet access 45-60 minutes of available time daily for 2-4 days per week
> Skills level (basic, intermediate, advance)
Format
Methodology
Learning stakeholder
Topics and agenda
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1. A Warm Welcome
Digital On boarding | 15 MinutesGet all participants on board and do a bit of practice
To achieve a sense of comfort in our digitally-blended learning environment
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2. Setting the context
Contextualizing | 15 MinutesA series of poll questions to set the context from the manager's perspective
Gaining clarity on the why
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3. How it works
Getting started | 20 MinutesOverview on the 6 daily steps includes the overall schedule
Getting familiarized
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4. Roles and responsibilities
Setting the expectations | 15 MinutesAn overview on the expectations, roles and responsibilities of our stakeholders
Knowing our role and expectations
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5. Principles and concepts
Knowing the background | 15 MinutesA set of concepts and principles for your learning circle
Having clarity on the background for all stakeholders
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6. Practice Learning (I)
Practice |Daily Practice field for creating and sharing your opinion for week 1
Creating, appreciating, curating and sharing digital content
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7. Practice Learning (II)
Practice |Daily Practice field for creating and sharing your opinion for week 2
Creating, appreciating, curating and sharing digital content
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8. Practice Learning (III)
Practice |Daily Practice field for creating and sharing your opinion for week 3
Creating, appreciating, curating and sharing digital content
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9. Practice Learning (IV)
Practice |Daily Practice field for creating and sharing your opinion for week 4
Creating, appreciating, curating and sharing digital content
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10. Review and reflection
Giving feedback | 30 MinutesA place to share your thoughts, ideas and feedback on the learning experience
To review, reflect and share
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11. Background
Information sharing | 10 MinutesInformation on learning circles, our teacher-facilitators and about us
To gain additional clarity
Professionals
CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles
PJ is the Chief Architect of Learning Circles and creator of Wiztango.com a Digital Facilitation Technology Platform for Content Originators. He is an American with a global background as an entrepreneur in technology and education management.
In 2002, he founded and for fourteen years successfully managed an in-residence corporate university for Japanese employees of Hitachi Corp, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Yokogawa, Panasonic and 30 global Japanese corporations. The Singapore-based company achieved $8.9M revenue at its peak and had 1,000 Japanese graduates from 25 global-skill development programs.
In the past 25 years, PJ has had pioneering leadership roles in the digital transformation of multiple industries including Pre-Press (Israeli-based Scitex Corp), Photography (Boston-based Leaf Technologies), Printing (Dutch-based Indigo Corp) and Advertising (Boston-based Engage Technologies)
Metabridge LLC
At Metabridge, we work with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Product Owners, Authors, Publishers, Training Providers, Corporate, Institutes and Schools and a wide gamut of the learning supply chain.
Our growth business model and Learning Circle technology enables SMEs & Content Originators to build a scalable learning model by digitalizing their expertise and then assigning trainers and teachers to facilitate digitally-blended training as a Learning Circle for employees, professionals or students to contextualize & apply learning, resulting in learning through collective intelligence and a high ROI.