In-company Services

Learn more about our in company services

• Professional skills courses: writing in English
• Professional skills courses: speaking and interacting in English
• Intercultural Comms Services
• Editing Services
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In Company Services

Are you a manager or entrepreneur?  Do you have European and/or international clients? Do you work overseas from time to time with internationally based clients?

What all of these perspectives have in common is the use of English as a lingua franca. Research has shown, however, that communicating in English can cause a communicative breakdown, as aspects of your native tongue are transferred to English, your L2 in most cases. So, linguistic, idiomatic and cultural aspects are transferred through language use, without you being aware of it. For example, Dutch entrepreneurs may be perceived as aggressive, whereas British ones may be seen as overly polite and always nice, whereas they may signal more subtle messages, which may not be recognized by the Dutch, for example. The bottom line is that business may not be conducted as effectively as one would expect due to cultural and communicative differences.

How can you deal with a communicative breakdown and how can you narrow down what the reasons for ineffectiveness are? Well, we can help you or your employees in developing more effective communication skills and increase cultural awareness. What does this mean and what does it involve? We can help you or your employees in developing this awareness of cultural differences and we can offer alternative approaches to conducting business (soft skills) without assimilating too much. That is, so you do not lose your corporate identity due to overt adaptation to the other party involved. More specifically, we can support you in developing the necessary soft-skills and help you navigate those linguistic and cultural differences while reaching your corporate objectives.

We offer both tailored coaching and training solutions to entrepreneurs/ business owners and corporate industries. Please don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you!

Consulting services

We also offer training consulting services to organizations that require solving, especially issues that revolve around ineffective communication and communicative breakdown, but also redesigning existing training formats.

• Do you need training services to be redesigned and would you like to know what type of investment you are looking at?
• Would you like to get a second opinion with regard to the development of training services, which have already been designed by an employee or hired training professional? More specifically, to prevent the over-expenditure of financial resources?
• Or do you happen to have other questions or cases? No problem, just contact us.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Training and Coaching services

Our training solutions are always tailored to the needs of your employees and are in accordance with your corporation’s mission and vision statements. This way, organizational communication with salient stakeholders can be consistent as well as yield ROI. Please see:

• Professional skills – writing: reports, memos, e-mails, minutes (notulen) and agendas and policy documents.
• Professional skills – speaking: presentation skills, pitching, meetings, and telephoning in English.

Editing Services

We also offer editing services, for we understand that ad hoc measures might simultaneously be required.

Interested in receiving a quotation? Please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Interim Services

We also provide corporate industries with interim services for those moments where the expertise of a communication professional is required. LSA LINGUA’s business owner can be taken on on a project basis. Please note that she has taken and completed Master level courses in the following university departments: Business Administration, Linguistics and Business Comms. More specifically, her educational background is in Communication- and Information Sciences and that she is specializing in International Business Communication.

Please see editing services for more information about the type of services we offer. Interested in receiving an offer? Please don’t hesitate to contact us.