Corporate Writing
Training fees including food, lodging and tourism: $2,800.
Persons who cannot join the training on the scheduled date can have it on a date convenient to them either online or in person but are required to give Sopodiva a six-week notice prior to their chosen date.
Session Duration: 20 – 24 JANUARY 2025 & 18 – 24 August 2025
Introduction
Corporate English is, in today’s commercial landscape, inescapable. Secretaries and other corporate officers, whose work before now was limited to returning calls, have had their responsibilities expanded to cover report and email writing, presentation as well as planning and arranging for meetings. On their part, top corporate executives and managers have also embraced a course in corporate English as the surest way to improve their communication skills, a tool so much required in today's highly competitive globalized business space.
General course objective
This Sopoprof Corporate English is an intensive short term Professional English course specially designed to equip learners with skills in report and formal email writing, formal presentation, meetings, telephoning as well as corporate vocabularies and grammar to ensure that learners or participants become effective communicators within their professional environments using the English language.
Who is Sopoprof Corporate English for?
This Sopoprof Corporate English is targeted all professionals who are yearning to improve their business and professional English skills in a commercial context in the shortest possible time.
English Content Writing
Course Content
This Sopoprof Corporate English is targeted all professionals who are yearning to improve their business and professional English skills in a commercial context in the shortest possible time.
- Types of report
- The character of report
- Structure and elements of a report
- The formalities
- Memos and emails
- Formal letters
- Inquiry letter and reply
- Complaint and adjustment letter
- Invitation and announcement
- Could we meet next week?
- Arranging a meeting
- Confirming a meeting by email
- Rescheduling a meeting
- Saying hello and making introductions
- Starting a meeting
- Stating objectives
How to make a point at a meeting
- Reporting progress
- Explaining cause and effect
- Interrupting and dealing with interruptions
Agreeing and disagreeing at a meeting
- Responding to offers
- Buying time
- Taking a vote
- Summarizing the results of a meeting
- Ending a meeting and thanking participants
- Confirming decisions and action points
- Follow-up emails
- Saying goodbye
- Taking minutes at meetings
- Answering the phone
- Beginning a call
- Ending a call
- Appointments and arrangements
- Telephone conferences
- General business vocabularies
- Legal vocabularies
- Hospital vocabularies
- Transport vocabularies
- Hotel vocabularies
- Simple past vs present perfect in corporate context
- Conditional sentences
- Active and passive voice in corporate context
- Reported speech.
- Present simple and continuous to express permanent and temporary situations.
- Prepositions
- Linking words
Teaching Methodology
A learner centred or constructivist approach will be adopted and employed throughout the training to ensure learners are at the centre of the skill acquisition process. The role of the teachers or coaches shall not extend beyond serving as facilitators, guiding the learners who are professionals to tap into their previous relevant knowledge discover and acquire their targeted stills independently. Case study, audio and video discussions will be integral part of the programme to ensure that reading and comprehension, listening and speaking needs are also catered for.
SOPOPROF TOUR
- Day one: participants will have the opportunity to visit and explore the University of Ghana.
- Day two: participants explore the Accra Mall and take the chance to watch a movie at the Silverbird Cinema before making their way back to the hotel.
- Day three: participants will tour the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.
- Day four: industrial tour within Accra or Tema Metropolis
- Day five: participants will have to take enough rest on this day as they will embark on a much longer trip on day six.
- Day six: a trip to a tourist site outside Accra
