Global Vision

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*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).

$490 WEBINARS – 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.

Do you want to improve your meetings? Meetings are one of the most important instruments for personal contact and communication.

Learn how to think like a ‘natural meeting chairman (or, if needed, mediator)’ – a good meeting chairman creates an enjoyable and productive atmosphere for the mutual benefit of every participant.

Valuable resources and time can be squandered if meetings are not properly planned. This training material is for managers and employees who currently, or in the future will, chair or actively participate in meetings which are conducted in English.

We help you with surprisingly simple and proven techniques, giving everyone the enthusiasm, creativity and courage to invigorate every meeting, discussion and decision with new ideas and better results.

Your meeting skills definitely affect the success of your company! Inside, you will find examples of how to

• use powerful questions in real meeting and coaching situations

• actively lead and chair meetings by assisting others

• guide others by leading them forward through questions and motivate your participants

• end your meetings correctly and assess as well as evaluate them afterwards

Good meetings with better results don’t just happen – they are thoroughly planned and organized in advance!

In meetings, two or more people come together (inter-cultural, interdisciplinary and from different generations or hierarchies) for the purpose of discussing an agenda which is frequently decided on in advance and which consists of topics related to daily business, projects or future plans.

A meeting provides people with the opportunity to come together in real-life face-to-face situations. Today, its state-of-the-art communication lines and equipment also enable people to take part in the same meeting while being in different locations, e.g. via an online meeting or a conference call (audio and/or video conference).

This training material shows you step by step how you can plan more effective meetings – to achieve what you have planned in advance.

In short: you will learn and experience how to really improve your meetings, discussions and skills as a chairperson.

We encourage you to think innovatively and to deliver your chairmanship in your own individual way. Nowadays, being yourself and being a good communicator and chairperson at the same time is one of the most commonly required soft skills.

A minimum of five (5) participants is required.*
1 topic equals 1 participant/place.

1 WEBINAR = 1 topic x 7 days x 3 hours +Lifetime online material.
Altogether, this equals 21 hours of webinars – including our LIVE team of consultants, coaches, teachers, and trainers, who 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).

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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).

ENCLOSURE
SELF-STUDY – EMPLOYEE GROWTH PACKAGE
(18 TOPICS INCLUDING 49-DAY ENGLISH REFRESHER)

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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