Communication Skills for
international professionals

Business communication skills

Effective communication skills are crucial in the global business environment. At Simcoe Learning, we help individuals and groups build communication skills to succeed in the English-speaking workplace. Here are some of the ways our courses can help you:

  • Learn strategies for communicating across departments and cultures.
  • Build language and strategies for workplace functions like giving instructions, asking for feedback, giving an opinion, and much more.
  • Develop speaking skills for conversations, meetings, and presentations.
  • Build reading and listening comprehension skills.
Ready to improve your business English communication skills? Click the button below for details on the free communication skills course. 

Online Courses

At Simcoe Learning, we currently have four premium course to help you develop your English communication skills. You can see the details of each course below. 

Business Communication Skills

You need strong language and communication skills to succeed in the English-speaking workplace. This course helps you build those skills and start on your path to professional success. 

In the Business English course, you will find video lessons, quizzes, exercises, and resources to help you work in an English-speaking company or use English at work. The lessons are for engineers, accountants, teachers, nurses, or any professionals that require English language skills. 

You will learn language functions for work, helping you give advice, share your opinion, ask for help, give instructions, and much more. You will also consider how cultural differences affect workplace communication, which will help you communicate with your co-workers and clients. 

You also need the language skills to help your professional speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Video lessons look at key grammar and vocabulary while giving you quizzes and exercises to practice. Each language explanation is in the context of a business environment. By developing these language skills, you will be able to better communicate in English in a professional way.  

Strong English language skills are crucial to communicate effectively at work. This course is your chance to build those skills today. Get started developing your business English and tearing down those barriers to professional success! 

English Writing Skills

You need strong language and communication skills to succeed in the English-speaking workplace. This course helps you build those skills and start on your path to professional success. 

In the Business English course, you will find video lessons, quizzes, exercises, and resources to help you work in an English-speaking company or use English at work. The lessons are for engineers, accountants, teachers, nurses, or any professionals that require English language skills. 

You will learn language functions for work, helping you give advice, share your opinion, ask for help, give instructions, and much more. You will also consider how cultural differences affect workplace communication, which will help you communicate with your co-workers and clients. 

You also need the language skills to help your professional speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Video lessons look at key grammar and vocabulary while giving you quizzes and exercises to practice. Each language explanation is in the context of a business environment. By developing these language skills, you will be able to better communicate in English in a professional way.  

Strong English language skills are crucial to communicate effectively at work. This course is your chance to build those skills today. Get started developing your business English and tearing down those barriers to professional success! 

Professional Email Writing Skills

Do you find writing emails challenging? Do you spend too much time writing and responding to email every day at work? You can change that. Improving your email writing is one of the fastest ways to succeed at work. You can save time, build relationships, and communicate effectively.

In this course, you will learn to write clearer, more effective emails. This includes giving you the language and strategies you can use immediately.

Here’s how you can improve: 

  • Learn what to write in each section of the email.
  • See the words and phrases to avoid in emails.
  • Improve your email etiquette to build better relationships with co-workers or clients.
  • Write more concise emails that people actually read.
  • Improve your structure and grammar for perfect writing every time.

After you finish the course, your emails will be more concise and easier to read. Better emails lead to better workplace communication, which leads to success. And for you, that success could mean a promotion, raise, or new job!

Start today to improve your email writing.

Communication Skills for Engineers

You need strong language and communication skills to succeed in the English-speaking workplace. This course helps you build those skills and start on your path to professional success. 

In the Business English course, you will find video lessons, quizzes, exercises, and resources to help you work in an English-speaking company or use English at work. The lessons are for engineers, accountants, teachers, nurses, or any professionals that require English language skills. 

You will learn language functions for work, helping you give advice, share your opinion, ask for help, give instructions, and much more. You will also consider how cultural differences affect workplace communication, which will help you communicate with your co-workers and clients. 

You also need the language skills to help your professional speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Video lessons look at key grammar and vocabulary while giving you quizzes and exercises to practice. Each language explanation is in the context of a business environment. By developing these language skills, you will be able to better communicate in English in a professional way.  

Strong English language skills are crucial to communicate effectively at work. This course is your chance to build those skills today. Get started developing your business English and tearing down those barriers to professional success! 

Communication Skills for Accountants

Are you an accountant or financial professional learning English? Join us to improve your language and communication skills for success at work. This course has helped hundreds of international financial professionals around the world improve their communication skills. Now it’s your turn!

This course is for English language learners in the accounting and finance profession. You will develop the communication skills required for success in the industry. Here are some of the things you will do in this course:

  • Build English language skills required for successful communication.
  • Learn functional language for common tasks in the accounting profession.
  • Develop strategies for communicating with co-workers and non-accounting departments.
  • Strengthen your business writing.
  • Build speaking skills you can use in the English-speaking workplace.

Do these challenges sound familiar to you?

  • “It’s difficult to explain my ideas or I can’t think of the right thing to say.”
  • “I feel nervous in meetings, conversations, and presentations.”
  • “It’s challenging to explain financial concepts to others.”
  • “My English language and communication skills are preventing me from getting a promotion!”

Don’t let your English hold you back at work! Your technical skills are strong, but your communication is holding you back from a raise, promotion, or new job. That’s where this course can help!

Who is this course for?

Accountants and financial professionals learning English will benefit from this course. This includes internationally trained professionals working in English speaking countries, like the USA, Canada, or England. It also includes professionals around the world using English to communicate with international clients and co-workers.

Apart from international accountants, anyone building English skills and using finance can benefit from this course. That includes business and economics students, business owners, managers, business analysts, and many more people. If you talk about numbers and money at work, this course will help you.

When you finish this course, you will have the language skills and confidence you need to use English at work. This improved communication can lead to a raise, promotion, or even a new job!

Here are some of the specific language and communication skills you will learn in this course:

  • Discussing numbers and money
  • Reporting past results and forecasting future results
  • Describing financial changes in your company
  • Explaining financial concepts to non accountants
  • Using accounting and financial vocabulary and terminology
  • Giving advice, opinions, and requests in the workplace
  • Explaining a process and give instructions

You will also develop business communication skills valuable for anyone working in an office environment.