How Not To Get Blocked In A Conference Call In English
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How Not To Get Blocked In A Conference Call In English
How Not To Get Blocked In A Conference Call In English. It happens to all of us at some point, we get blocked during a conference call in English. Then we feel bad and blame our poor English.
— “Stop blaming yourself and start analyzing objectively the facts” —
Problem
How Not To Get Blocked In A Conference Call In English. It happens to all of us at some point, we get blocked during a conference call in English.
— “Stop blaming yourself and start analyzing objectively the facts” —
- When we ask the question to our client companies and students, “what is the hardest thing you have to do in English?”. The answer they usually give is either conference calls in English or presentations in English.
- We have many students that have problems with conference calls and most blame their poor English. This is natural, but not helpful. We need to stop blaming and start analysing objectively the facts.
- So we ask students to think and reflect on the conference calls they participate in in English. And we ask them to think and reflect on this question, “what makes people good communicators in conference calls in English?”.
- And surprisingly to them (but not to us) native English speakers are not always the best communicators in English.
Solution
Stop blaming your English and start analysing what the good communicators do in conference calls in English (both the non native and native English speakers).
In the list below are the main things our students have discovered when they analyse the good communicators in their conference calls in English. And when they realise these things they stop blaming their poor English and instead start to feel better, to relax and to focus on becoming good communicators in their conference calls in English.
—– According to our students, they identified the good communicators they had seen as a mix of French, Swedish, Indian, Czeck, British, Portuguese and German professionals. And these advanced Business English speakers do the following things:
- they have a clear goal
- they structure their ideas
- they check and clarify so that everybody understands and is on the same page
- they repeat and summarise the key ideas
- they encourage good participation by asking for opinions and asking questions
- they are good active listeners, really listen and don’t interrupt ask questions and listen to opinions
- they give good examples to help people understand key points
- they do good follow up by email/phone call to summarise the meeting, check understanding and offer helpful suggestions on key points.
Start today, stop blaming your English and start analysing what good communicators do in conference calls in English.
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I hope this helps you with your professional English and in your professional career, Christopher!
The English Training Company – we help companies and professionals to become advanced business English speakers!
