Communication skills training in India – Speak First leads the way

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Improving business success and transforming lives

Speak First is proud and excited to be involved with the Indian School of Integrated Learning (ISIL) – the first of its kind in India. Through the school, we’ll be bringing high quality communication skills to professionals and students across the country. Our vision is to improve business success and transform lives.

Speak First Managing Director, Amanda Vickers is enthusiastic about the venture: “India is a vibrant country brimming with potential. We are delighted to be involved with helping people develop much needed soft skills throughout India through our alliance with ISIL.”

Following in the footsteps of CREMA
ISIL is the brainchild of Mr Vijay Moza the man behind CREMA, the highly successful Indian clinical research and management academy. Just as CREMA has helped thousands of students to gain employment and progress their clinical research careers, ISIL will equip students and professionals across all occupations with the skills to succeed in their own careers and businesses. Helping students get their dream job
For students graduating from university with a wealth of technical skills, getting their dream job can be difficult without the right communication, interpersonal and business presentation skills. By enrolling at ISIL, students will learn how to make the best possible impression on potential employers, whether via their CV, in an interview or once they’re in a business setting. They’ll benefit from a program developed by Speak First that furnishes them with vital skills from our portfolio, including: effective communication, cultural awareness, personal impact, presentation skills, successful interviewing and management skills. Having completed the program (on either a part-time or full-time basis), students will be equipped with the confidence and skills to get the job they want and deserve and to be highly successful in their careers.Providing first-class training to Indian businesses
Through ISIL, we will also be working with a wealth of corporate clients in India, to provide them with Speak First training and coaching that has been hugely successful elsewhere in the world. All courses will be adapted where necessary to suit the Indian environment and will be delivered by a mixture of Indian and Western trainers. Organisations can choose from our wide range of communication skills courses to enhance the business effectiveness of their people.

Speak First stood out from the crowd
Speak First was chosen as the sole training provider for ISIL due to our whole-hearted commitment to making a success of the project, our long-term approach and our unwillingness to compromise on quality in delivery. Mr Moza was impressed with the standards set by Speak First, in terms of content, delivery and trainers and selected us from a range of potential providers.

See a short film of Mr Moza introducing the Speak First partnership with ISIL.

Speak First International
With trainers based around the world, speaking a wide range of languages, and with our Asia Pacific headquarters in New Zealand, this partnership with the Indian School of Integrated Learning emphasises the international status of Speak First. We look forward to really making a difference to students and businesses in India and to continuing our work across the world.

If you’d like to know more about the Indian School of Integrated Learning, visit the ISIL website.

Contact our London (EMEA) or New Zealand (APAC) office if you require communication skills training or coaching for your people anywhere in the world.

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5 Ways Video Conferencing Makes Employee Training Simple

One of the most pressing issues a business executive faces is finding creative and innovative ways to keep employees trained and motivated. Ongoing training and development sessions not only provide a means for employees to grow on a personal and professional level, but it also assures team members will be equipped with the skills and knowledge needed for a profitable business.

Maintaining an ongoing training program is not always easy, especially when teams operate on an international level. In this situation, employees are either asked to travel to one general location for participation in a training session or the trainer must travel to the remote office and conduct the training there. With the high cost of travel, neither one of these options is a viable solution.

Businesses today are transforming the way company-wide training is conducted. Company personnel are no longer required to leave the comfort of their homes and offices. By introducing online training through web-based video conferencing, not only are businesses able to drastically reduce the cost of travel but they also see an increase in employee productivity and job satisfaction. Here's how:
Conduct new employee training: The first few weeks of a new job can be extremely stressful. Often times large organizations either have to fly a trainer in from their headquarters or send the new employee to a remote location, which adds to that stress. Using video conferencing for employee on-boarding helps to reduce the stress caused by starting a new job. New hires can participate in live job training from the comfort of their home office.Increase amount of learning and knowledge: On the job training should not be limited to new employees. The business world is constantly evolving. Having current employees up-to-date on industry trends and statistics allows them to adapt at a much quicker pace. This is even more important when multiple business locations are involved. Changes in an industry can take place over night. Online training through video conferencing allows businesses to face these changes immediately by giving them a unified platform to reach out to all their employees.Lower industry compliance risks: Keeping employees informed on workplace compliance laws is extremely important. Online compliance training keeps employees informed, reducing the risk of complaints, which helps to create an effective work environmentEducate, motivate and engage: There is nothing more damaging to a business than low employee moral and lack of motivation. Often times this happens in a poor economy. Keeping employees motivated during these times will help organizations stay successful and on task. With video conferencing, companies can instantly communicate with their staff and provide them with education that inspires.Build a training database and library: The great thing about video conferencing is you can record your training sessions and use them at a later time. This is useful when employees need to be retrained on a specific topic or company trainers are not available to meet face-to-face.

In order to run a fluent business, keeping new and current employees trained and updated on company policy is a must. Online training through video conferencing is a cost efficient and flexible method that every business should look into implementing.

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Repackage Your Live Webinar Class As a Video Training Series

If you have already run a weekly live online webinar training session and it's now completed, it is time for you to repromote that package as a series of video replays. But how do you easily reposition one of those training courses as a class that stands on its own? You do it in three ways. Make it evergreen, add a dashboard page, and set up an autoresponder consumption e-mail sequence.

The first thing to keep in mind is that you need to make your webinar training evergreen. That means, if you mention at any point in the course, that the training was live, whether that is in the videos themselves, in the comments inside the membership site, remove those. If you mentioned any date, such as the month and day, the year, or day of the week, or even any holidays or special occasions, remove those or do your best to not mention them when you make the recording. It's very important that people don't know whether the videos you recorded are a day, a week, or a month old. Keep it evergreen.

The next thing you should do is create a dashboard page. This takes just a few minutes but insures that people can easily navigate the inside of the membership site that holds your webinar training videos. It is simple, just create a separate WordPress page that links to the various posts and pages containing the webinar replays in a logical step-by-step fashion. You can simply list the links to all these videos as a site map kind of page or as icons, put them in tables, and get it as fancy as you like. But adding the dashboard page automatically makes your membership site look a heck of a lot better.

Finally, and this is one of the most missed opportunities when it comes to making a webinar replay site or a membership site in general, create a consumption e-mail autoresponder sequence. What do I mean by this? I mean that, when someone joins your site, they aren't necessarily going to go through all the training right away. They might take several days or even weeks to watch all the videos. They might have forgotten how to log in or what the next step is for them. That's where you come in. Create a series of e-mail messages that tell people what video they should be watching, what report they should be reading, or what action they should be taking right now. Send them a message on day one, day three, day seven, just something every few days to remind them to log into the members area and keep watching the videos, whether they have paid you one time or are paying you on a rebilling schedule. And that is how you repackage your live webinar class as a re-play series. Make it evergreen, add a dashboard page, and assemble a consumption e-mail autoresponder sequence.

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