You have a knowledge of English comparable to level B1+ or higher and would like to improve your professional communication skills? Prepare yourself for international projects or work in English-speaking countries. You will learn the technical language and terminology, specialising in architecture and construction. Following the textbook, you will learn technical vocabulary and grammar and practise pronunciation using construction-related texts. You will acquire the language skills for the respective planning and execution phases of a construction project, and also learn the differences to the German HOAI phases. We will also cover topics relating to urban planning, technical building equipment, sustainability and construction in existing buildings. The lecturer is an experienced architect, engineer and urban planner. He studied at the University of East London, is ARB registered and a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He has extensive language and specialist knowledge of Anglo-Saxon planning and construction, which he is happy to pass on to colleagues.

Improve your communication skills in informal and formal business situations. Topics include: small talk, discussing ideas at meetings, negotiations, and current news topics. The focus is on speaking, but vocabulary and grammar will also be dealt with.

Get your business day off to a good start with speaking practice over coffee! Reactivate those words you know you've heard before and give your fluency a boost! Topics on daily business and news. Teacher correction and feedback are part of the lessons.

This course aims to help you improve your English for situations such as making introductions and building client relationships at conferences. We will practise small talk in different types of situations, focusing on common problems you may encounter in meetings, for example handling conflicts or politely interrupting to get your point across.

Business communication is an essential component of day-to-day business life. In this course you will learn how to communicate effectively in the following situations: - Networking with colleagues and business partners - Conducting challenging interviews - Leading F2F and virtual meetings more effectively - Preventing and solving conflicts immediately You will have some grammar corrections and quick recaps throughout the course but the most important part of our seminar is based on oral communication skills.   Your English needs to be on, at least, a stable B2 level.

Leadership and management are two sides of the same coin. In order to be a good leader we need to understand the new challenges of the economy: In a post-VUCA world, we have to find a quick fix and a flexible medium-term strategy. In this course we will explore and discuss the new types of leaders and learn motivational coaching such as: - storytelling mindset changers and pitching tools - Effective tools to show empathy and true interest - How to deal with high-potentials and high-performers as well as to motivate low-performers - Establishing a pragmatic dashboard to measure our leadership performance Your English needs to be on, at least, a stable B2 level.