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Chris Morgan has created a Firehead new exclusive course: Presenting in English with Equal Impact. It’s a video and Zoom one-on-one course exclusive to the Firehead Training Academy for anyone who needs to present their ideas in a second language at work.
Chris is an internationally recognised expert in language and presentations coaching, and has a passion for innovative teaching methods.
Who is this course for?
The course is designed with digital communicators working in second-language English in mind. But anyone looking for a breakthrough in their fluency, clarity, and calmness when presenting or speaking spontaneously to a professional audience in English will find value in this program.
The coaching-based methodology of this hybrid digital and live 1-1 course make it suitable for learners with an intermediate through to proficiency level of second-language English.
For intermediate level speakers, there are practical exercises to boost self-belief for their next presentation as well as targeted resources to continue to grow knowledge in the right areas.
For those with a more advanced level, the program offers the resources and tools to consistently translate technical language ability into the self-assurance to perform and speak spontaneously about their work, fluidly and with confidence .
Why is this course important?
Have you experienced the limits that a failure to present yourself and communicate your work effectively can put on your career?
It can be a hard enough challenge to do this in your first language. Since facing this challenge in his first career, Chris has now helped hundreds of other professionals to face the extra challenge of doing the same, but in their second language. In many cases, the language barrier seems overwhelming, and in some cases, produces a barrier to even attempting it.
If you do avoid it, it can be a limitation on your career.
If you cannot avoid it, your self-perception and your professional confidence may be at risk.
You can’t go back and fix the past, but you can learn the methods to help you keep as many doors open in your career as possible going forward.
This course is important because it helps you prepare the language and build the confidence to communicate your professional insights and value to the widest possible audience.
How will this learning be useful to you in five years time?
The course shares unchanging linguistic features and timeless learning principles designed to help you develop yourself as a successful autonomous language learner, regardless of your existing level.
The coaching resources and tools help you maintain and develop a healthy relationship with the English language and to guide you past the barriers between you and your best performance. They are long-term and adaptive strategies to build resilient belief in yourself as an English speaker.
They’ll help you now, in five, or even ten years time. Indeed, many of the language principles are universal enough to help with other language challenges too, with minor adaptation.
The Illustrated creative language templates included in this course are yours to keep, use, re-use, adapt and develop, assisting you with future presentations or interviews you face in English.
Here’s a little more about Chris
Chris is an English language coach and presentation trainer with 15 years experience. He has worked for language schools and private clients in Osaka, Cambridge (UK) and in recent years, for the UN Centre for Languages and Multilingualism in Geneva.
He now works as a specialist independent language coach, course creator and illustrator, offering online coaching and training to digital communicators who want to improve their ease and fluency as they work, speak, and think in second-language English.
Among other things he loves spending time being a Dad, hanging out with his dog, and trying (and mostly failing) to find time for a nap most days, and in really rare moments, playing the ukulele badly.
In this course, you’ll learn:
- How language corpora studies and real English data reveal that your English knowledge is wider ranging than you think.
- How to use tools and adopt habits that target and fill any gaps in your English knowledge base for objective confidence.
- Why you don’t need to worry about grammar when you speak if you’re ready to get to know 100 words better and stay curious.
- How working with three characteristics of spoken English will improve understanding and help you speak English clearly, regardless of your 1st language accent.
- Actionable advice to help you bring enjoyment and purpose back into your English improvement practice. Unique and creative learning approaches that build practical language driven by your life, work and interests in a few minutes a day.
- How a focus on your message will help you beat imposter syndrome and language anxiety when you speak.
- How to use three reusable visual language templates, designed to give you the precise messages and language your audience need to hear.
- How to implement language coaching approaches and tools to help you continuously see yourself as a legitimate English speaker and communicator.
- Presentation techniques that build trust and connection with your audience in any language.
- Preparation habits to give you extra calm and clarity before, during and after you’ve spoken.
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