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CoreComm Case Study 3: Overseas Assignment But No Communication

Global Engineering Company- Japan Branch

A group of engineers had been chosen for 2-year overseas assignments to Europe and Asia.

The group had been given over 250 hours of English lessons and Business English lessons at their company. The lessons were usually once or twice a week. But after many months, they still couldn’t communicate effectively in English. And the departure was very close. The Human Resource Director was extremely worried and upset. The company had chosen different lesson providers to get a variety of courses and teaching styles. The Director, a native Japanese speaker, could also speak English and German fluently. She was so shocked by the engineer’s lack of language ability and communication skills after taking so many classes. This was a panic situation.

The Director heard about CoreComm. She scheduled a consultation meeting with the CoreComm team and after establishing the student’s, the company’s needs, she agreed to go ahead with the seminar. But, because CoreComm was so unique, she decided to observe the class everyday. She began to do her work from inside the training room. This way, she would be able to see everything that the students experienced and learned.

Results

When the course finished, the Director and the CoreComm team had a meeting to discuss the results of the seminar. The Director, who speaks 3 languages fluently, said how amazed she was with the student’s communication abilities in just 5 days. She explained that the students told her they could now communicate much more accurately and confidently, she also agreed with the students.

The Director said that she now felt very confident to send these engineers on their overseas assignments, knowing that they could now communicate accurately, effectively and with confidence in any situation. She said she was so shocked to see such improvement so quickly and how she wished she had requested the CoreComm courses at the beginning of the training.

The Director also said that after seeing how the students learn how to learn, learn how to communicate and how effective the course really is that “CoreComm is exactly what Japanese people need!”

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