Employers

The Regional Language Network can help your business to overcome language and cutlural barriers.

If your business needs to communicate on an international level either through exporting, employing migrant workers or working in the Tourism industry, we provide advice and resources to improve your communications and make the most of language and cultural skills.

How we can help

The RLN West Midlands can offer you advice and support in the following areas:

  • Business support - a rundown of our services, all available to help improve your business.
  • Exports - useful advice and links for exporting companies or those wishing to expand into international markets.
  • Migrant workers - advice, guidance and resources for employers of migrant workers.
  • Tourism - industry specific advice on how to communicate effectively with overseas visitors.
  • Your workforce - advice on dealing with internal communications if you employ a multilingual, mulitcultural workforce or if you employ deaf workers.
  • Sources of financial assistance - advice and signposting to help with your international trade strategies including language training, etc.
  • The language barrier - what the language barrier actually means and how, through understanding it, you can overcome the barrier.
  • International communication planning - tips and advice on drawing up a strategy to deal with international trade.
  • Case studies - analyses of how companies have used language and cultural skills to improve international trade.
  • Business Language Champions - find out how your experience of working with languages or using multilingual staff can help local school students to increase their enthusiasm for continuing with their language learning.


Further sources of help

  • West Midlands Languages Strategy and Action Plan - Find out more about how the region plans to increase international trade.
  • National Language Standards - developed and maintained by CILT, the National Centre for Languages, the standards, which have recently been revised, provide a scale of competence for languages in a work setting. They are useful as a framework for developing training programmes and recruiting staff.
  • INCA Project - Intercultural competence enables you to interact effectively within a multicultural group. This could be in the workplace or social situations, in your own country or overseas. The INCA project, which was funded by the Leonardo da Vinci II programme and is now complete, focused on the engineering sector and thus the assessment frameworks, tools and models have an engineering focus. These products are now available from www.incaproject.org

 

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