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GLOBAL VISION WARRANTY:
30-DAY 100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE*
(100% satisfaction with our services, or 100% of your money refunded)
WARRANTY 100 Money back guarantee

*Only SELF-STUDY online courses are eligible for our 30-DAY 100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE (all other offers – e.g. including LIVE teacher & trainer services –
are excluded from this 30-DAY 100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE).

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EMPLOYEE GROWTH PACKAGE
(18 TOPICS INCLUDING 49-DAY ENGLISH REFRESHER)

1 topic equals 1 participant/place.
18 topics equal 1 or up to 18 different participant(s)/place(s).

If you are interested, our LIVE team of consultants, coaches, teachers, and trainers will work with you on improving your company‘s international tasks – we will help you to boost your pieces of work and project results.

You can book additional hours
to receive help to improve your native English proofreading and copywriting in order to achieve higher quality results – we would love to boost both your own and your company’s project performances.
CONTACT:
talk@global-vision.world

Our trainers will question everything in a targeted manner in order to achieve the highest possible results: for example, to discuss and work out your company‘s international presentations and marketing materials.

Any international marketing and/or media content with communications purposes such as your company’s websites, videos, magazines, brochures, flyers, advertisements and other international English media presentations narrated in both audio and video, as well as impromptu public spoken speeches or any other materials written in English – everything that will optimize your company’s brands, products, and services that we will work on with you.

In this way, your international company‘s holistic corporate communication and identity will improve naturally through quality measurements (including every international aspect of communication in every area of marketing, advertising, and public relations).

For example our SELF-STUDY:
Instead of $882, you will pay only $790 –
YOU SAVE $88.20, which equals 10% OFF.
(= $43.89 per topic instead of $49)

As well as the usual 49 days per topic and 24/7 online access, with this special offer you will receive access to every topic for the entire 882-day period.

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AWARD
The 'talktotheworld' series has won an award from six universities.*

Prize-winning Professional Skills Development course (Marketing, Management & Communication)
The Management Skills Development series include professional topics such as presenting, negotiating, organizing, meetings, discussions, marketing, advertising, the office, correspondence, telephoning, making decisions, etc.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TOPICS
(18 TOPICS INCLUDING 49-DAY ENGLISH REFRESHER)

SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATION
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Definitions of negotiation – alternatives to negotiation – the four stages of negotiation: preparation, debate, proposal, bargaining – closing the deal.
Including PREPARATION AND GUIDANCE CARDS FOR NEGOTIATION.

SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
General rules – types of meetings – preparing the meeting: agenda, location, layout – increasing participation – handling problems – guidelines for participants.

SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS CONVERSATIONS
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Three conversations in marketing and advertising – analysis of each conversation – problem-solving – decision-making – the art of listening – small talk – exchanging information – motivation.

SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATION
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Part one - PREPARING THE PRESENTATION: Setting the agenda – the title – opening and closing points – speech structure – hand-outs – the correct approach – venue preparation – audience reaction – time structure.
Part two - CONDUCTING THE PRESENTATION: Pre-presentation briefing – meeting the client – taking questions – using notes – visual aids – overheads – charts – slides – speech delivery – body language.
Including PREPARATION AND GUIDANCE CARDS FOR PRESENTATION.

SUCCESSFUL CUSTOMER RELATIONS
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
New information on customer service – 'lifetime value' of customers – customer retention – staff training – expanding customer service – customer complaints – satisfying the customer.

POSITIVE LEADERSHIP IN MANAGEMENT
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Qualities of successful teams – positive team culture – setting goals – implementing decisions – delegation – sustaining results – leadership qualities – motivation – case studies.

SUCCESSFUL DECISION-MAKING
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Four principles of decision-making – assessing goals – evaluating decision options – non-rational decision-making – imaginative judgement – using intuition – positive thinking.

CONCERNING ETHICAL AND MORAL ISSUES
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Growth of the ethical consumer – the green movement – non-profit advertising – the ethical consumer in Britain – trade offs: economy versus ethics – international efforts.

GREEN MARKETING AND ADVERTISING
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
The green movement – definition of a green product – green advertising – case studies in green marketing – controls on green advertising – green consumerism.

MARKETING 1
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Introduction to marketing – defining marketing – the role of marketing in society – the history of marketing – case studies in marketing: CADILLAC, LEVI STRAUSS, McDONALD‘s – network marketing – future trends.

MARKETING 2
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
The marketing mix – stages of product development – reasons for new product failure – marketing channels – inventory management – stages of price determination – promotion – personal selling – publicity.

MARKETING 3
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access)
Diverse marketing practices – direct marketing – event marketing – product endorsement – product placement – point-of-sales marketing – industrial marketing – market research – case studies: NIKE, LIPTON, KODAK.

ADVERTISING 1
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access).
Introduction to advertising – history of advertising – impact of advertising: effects on price, value, competition – green advertising – globalization of markets – case studies: PROCTER & GAMBLE, VARTA.

ADVERTISING 2
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access).
Objectives of advertising – corporate advertising – briefing and re-briefing – product positioning – market segmentation – choosing media – copy-writing – design – ad testing – case studies: IBM, SEAGRAMS.

ADVERTISING 3
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access).
Diverse advertising practices – direct advertising – sampling – social advertising – trade advertising – public relations advertising – sponsoring – point-of-purchase advertising – mass-media advertising: TV, radio, print.

SUCCESSFUL OFFICE MANAGEMENT
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access).
Job applications – relating to office staff – office equipment – telephone skills – receiving visitors – looking after the office – building company contacts – minutes of a meeting.

SUCCESSFUL OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access).
Inquiries – offers – quotations – sales letters – orders received – orders sent – invoices – payment – reporting and correcting errors – late payments and deliveries.

49-DAY ENGLISH REFRESHER (7 weeks of daily units)
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access).

AWARD
The 'talktotheworld' series has won an award from six universities.*

Prize-winning English Refresher Course
The English refresher series includes 'Everyday English': Expressing opinions, greetings and farewells, communication, making schedules, getting acquainted, dining out, culture, leisure, camping, staying in hotels, on the street, in the post office, in the bank, at the police station, health, at the dentist‘s, shopping, at the pharmacy, photographic equipment, asking questions, numbers, weights and measures, quantities, times, calendar, the sky and space, the weather, spatial relations, the human body, the senses, life and death.

Content and Themes
Social issues, economics, politics, science, culture, art, literature, music, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology, etc.

49-DAY ENGLISH REFRESHER (7 weeks of daily units)
(incl. video & audio narration, 24/7 online access).

Learning Modules

49 x Multiple Choice Exercises x 3 English Level
(49 x Elementary, 49 x Intermediate, 49 x Advanced
= 147 Multiple Choice Exercises)

49 x Word Topic Lists

49 x Idioms & Phrases (Saying & Meaning)

49 x 20 words = 980 words from our Vocab Booster
Ranking of 1000+ most spoken English words
(including an average of 10 example sentences per word)

49 x 3 Quotations per day
= 147 Quotations

49 x 1 Grammar Exercises
including an average of 6-20+ Sub Grammar Exercises
= 294+ Grammar Exercises

Vocab booster database
1000+ most spoken English words
cover roughly 70% of the English language
(the ranked database includes
nearly 100 of the world's main languages).

1 million most used English words
(ranked database) will be published
and continued as an external project
to complete along with the
1000+ most spoken English words
translated into a database
with approximately 184+ languages.

Current Newspaper Articles
Business, Education, Entertainment, the Environment, Politics, Society, Sports, Travel.

Vocabulary Filter
Filters all unit-specific words – translation in American (https://www.merriam-webster.com/) and British (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/) English.

ADDITIONAL LEARNING TOOLS

Learning Performance
Learning Curves – Graphs & Statistics from Multiple Choice Exercise (Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced) and Grammar Exercise Results (the results are shown as percentages and the number of exercises, as well as being linked to the specific exercises done).

Grammar Reference
PRESENT SIMPLE
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PAST SIMPLE
PRESENT PERFECT
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
PAST CONTINUOUS
PAST PERFECT
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
FUTURE
Passive Voice
Passive Verb Forms
Conditionals
Participles:
PAST PARTICIPLES
Reported Speech
IRREGULAR VERBS

*AWARD
The 'talktotheworld' series has won an award from six universities.

Prize-winning
Professional Management Skills Development
and English Refresher Course
The prize-winning Enterprise Fellowship Scheme (EFS) competition is managed by the Warwick Ventures technology-transfer department and is a project for innovative, technology-based businesses from the higher education sector; it is jointly funded by the Office of Science and Technology and the European Regional Development Fund.

The Enterprise Fellowship Scheme (EFS) included intensive consultation and a substantial training programme (coaching, conferences, meetings, lectures, seminars, and workshops), which took place in 2004-2005 and were delivered and awarded by the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, Warwick Business School (WBS - University of Warwick), Birmingham City Business School (Birmingham City University - formerly UCE Business School), Coventry Business School (Coventry University), Keele Business School (Keele University), Staffordshire Business School (Staffordshire University), and University of Wolverhampton Business School.

The 'talktotheworld' series has received further support from Cambridge University Entrepreneurs, the Oxford Entrepreneurs Club, and The Learning Lab UK.

The 'talktotheworld' series content was developed by multi-award-winning management consultants and language trainers (its authors have won between them over 50 prizes and awards).

DEVELOPMENT TEAM
(This is an excerpt list – so far over 100 native English professionals have joined).

Dr. Keith Barlow (native English speaker)
Dr. Keith Barlow graduated from Warwick University in England in 1980 with an honours degree in economics. Since the mid-1980s, Dr. Barlow has been working in what was once the German Democratic Republic. He has worked in the English Section of Radio Berlin International and has taught English at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Humboldt University in Berlin, and at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (now Leipzig University). Parallel to his teaching, Dr. Barlow has kept in close touch with economic and social developments in Great Britain. This led to him to being awarded a 'Diplom' in history at the Karl Marx University in September 1990 and later to a doctoral thesis on the trade union policies of the British Government in the 1980s which he successfully defended at Bremen University in 1996. Dr. Barlow is currently working for the German-Russian Centre Saxony in Leipzig on a research project. Dr. Keith Barlow has assisted the 'talktotheworld' series project team as a freelance sub-editor and proofreader.

Elaine M. Barnett (native English speaker/talktotheworld.com author)
Elaine M. Barnett is a graduate of UCLA in International Communications. She also studied International Relations in Vienna, Austria and Organizational and Educational Psychology and Adult Education (MA 1996). She has won over 50 public speaking and debating awards in the United States, including: first prize in the national 'Voice of Democracy' speech contest out of 300,000 competitors in (1987), and the national award of the Martin Luther King and Pepsi Foundations from 1985 to 87. She was first in the State of California for impromptu speaking in 1985, second in the US for congressional negotiation in 1985 and first in the US for impromptu speaking in 1986. Since 1989, she has worked as a management trainer, giving seminars on public speaking, presentation skills and intercultural communication for corporate clients such as Henkel, Reemtsma, Deutsche Aerospace, Dr. Oetker, Deutsche Post AG, Landesbank Berlin, Lintas, and Rotary International. Elaine M. Barnett has been a consultant editor and co-author of several of the 'talktotheworld' series communication skills modules.

Nigel Crunden (native English speaker)
Nigel Crunden studied Industrial Design in London. He has worked for internationally renowned design agencies such as the Industrial Design Consultancy in London, Peter Schmidt / Veit Mahlmann Design International, and Lothar Böhm Design in Hamburg. He specializes in technical innovation and packaging & form design. His clients have included major brand name manufacturers such as Beiersdorf, Coca-Cola, Joop, Lancaster Group, Mars, Moulinex, RG Resonance Geophysics, Schweppes, Shop Wac/Goblin, Stanley Tools, Swan, and Unipart. Nigel Crunden has been a consultant editor at the 'talktotheworld' series and is a the co-author of several management skills modules.

Jasmin Daniel-Brinkmann (native English speaker)
Jasmin Daniel-Brinkmann graduated in English Literature and Linguistics in 1979. She spent 4 years working as an interpreter for the European Commission in Brussels. After moving to Hamburg, Germany she became manager of the English language department at Colòn Foreign Language Institute. Jasmin has worked for the 'talktotheworld' series as a sub-editor with responsibility for quality control, administration and customer service.

Susan David (native English speaker)
Susan David studied English Literature and Linguistics in the United States and Germany. She wrote her Master's thesis on internet and new electronic media. She has taught Business English at several language schools. She began working for the 'Talk to the world' series as a sub-editor with responsibility for quality control of the management skills modules. Susan has also worked as a trainer (General Business English Training) for the 'talktotheworld' series, managing assignments with companies such as SIHI International and ABuSD Security GmbH.

Kay Hughes (native English speaker)
Kay Hughes studied TEFL and English Literature at the University of London, and Art History and Music Theory at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She has over 14 years' experience as a high profile English trainer. She has worked on the SEFIC programme for the London Chamber of Commerce and for the Executive Centre at the St. George's School of English. In Germany she has given seminars and workshops for companies such as Dresdner Bank, Glaxo, Langnese/Iglo, Unilever, Nokia, and Nord-Deutsche Versicherung. Kay has assisted the 'talktotheworld' series project team as a freelance sub-editor and proofreader.

Joachim Klatt (native German speaker / fluent in English)
Joachim Klatt has worked as a marketing consultant for over 70 global players (16 out of the Top 100 Global Brands). His awards and achievements include the Warwick Business School / UCE winner of the Enterprise Fellowship Scheme (EFS) and a prize for exceptional achievement from Beiersdorf ('Strategic Marketing Management', USW - Universitätsseminare der Wirtschaft Schloss Gracht, European School of Management & Technology, www.esmt.berlin). His campaign for Pro 7 (the largest TV movie channel in Germany) won gold at the New York Film Festival (NYFF). He also won a target group award for the strongest print media awareness. Another campaign won exceptional results: over 1/3 additional turnover plus. Joachim is a consultant, co-ordinator, and co-author of several innovations and management modules at the 'talktotheworld' series. Joachim is interested in Global & Local Impacts – analyzing and discovering innovation possibilities and new ways of thinking for improvement.

Lucy Pollard (native English speaker)
Lucy Pollard studied Economics and English at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She went on to complete post-graduate programmes in Business Administration (RSA), and Theory and Methodology of Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (Dip. TESOL). She has worked as a sales representative for AIRPIC Ltd. in Pennsylvania, USA, and for several language institutes in Germany. She has trained marketing executives in management and communications skills through English for companies such as Springer Verlag, Hamburg, and the German Fashion Academy. Lucy Pollard has been responsible for designing training seminars at the 'talktotheworld' series.

Stephen Roche (native English speaker)
Stephen Roche studied History and German Literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway and at Hamburg University. He has taught German at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland and English at several private language schools in Hamburg, Germany. He began working at the 'talktotheworld' series as group co-editor, where his responsibilities included recruiting of authors and speakers, and managing studio recording for the Management English Library. He is also co-author of several management skills modules. In 2005, Stephen co-founded an agency, Network Translators, which specialized in cultural and scientific publications. In 2012, Stephen joined UNESCO, serving first as head of publications at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and later as editor-in-chief of the International Review of Education (IRE), the world’s oldest international peer-reviewed journal of education. In March 2015 Cambridge University Press published his co-authored book 'The Renaissance of Renewable Energy' (Dr. Gian Andrea Pagnoni, Stephen Roche).

Christopher Thompson (native English speaker)
Christopher Thompson studied History at the University of York. He subsequently completed a postgraduate diploma course in Business English Training at the Guildhall University in London. He has many years' experience as a Business English trainer and seminar leader for, among others, the Carl Duisburg Foundation, Deutsche Bank, Iberia Airlines, AEG, MBB, and Otto Versand. He is a co-author of the 'talktotheworld' series Communication Skills modules.

Carol Whetstone (native English speaker)
Carol Whetstone studied Literature at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. She worked for many years as a Business English trainer for international clients such as Konoike Ginko in Japan, Kobe Steel in New York, and the World Trade Centre in Amsterdam. She is an independent communication consultant specializing in inter-cultural communication. Since 1993, she has worked as a speech writer for the corporate vice-president of the Beiersdorf Corporation in Germany. Carol has worked for the 'talktotheworld' series as a sub-editor and consultant.

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