Develop the English skills you need to manage teams, lead confidently, & communicate like a global business professional
Do you want to communicate more effectively as a manager or leader in an international workplace? This course will help you master the English needed to plan, motivate, guide, and support teams in diverse professional environments.
What you’ll learn
- Key vocabulary and communication strategies used in management.
- How to describe management and leadership styles.
- Functional English for motivating teams and giving feedback.
- Emotional intelligence vocabulary and interpersonal communication skills.
- Conflict resolution and mediation language.
- Decision-making frameworks and strategic communication.
- How to communicate change, risk, and corporate strategy.
- Cross-cultural leadership language and etiquette.
- English for remote and hybrid team management.
Course Content
- What is a Manager? –> 4 lectures • 27min.
- Management and Communication Styles –> 4 lectures • 38min.
- Leadership Qualities –> 2 lectures • 14min.
- Developing and Displaying Emotional Intelligence –> 4 lectures • 36min.
- Team Building –> 2 lectures • 16min.
- Managing Conflict –> 3 lectures • 27min.
- Decision Making and Problem Solving –> 3 lectures • 25min.
- Vision, Mission and Strategy –> 2 lectures • 17min.
- Risk and Change Management –> 3 lectures • 26min.
- Cross-Cultural Leadership –> 3 lectures • 26min.
- Managing Remote and Hybrid Team –> 5 lectures • 36min.
Requirements
Do you want to communicate more effectively as a manager or leader in an international workplace? This course will help you master the English needed to plan, motivate, guide, and support teams in diverse professional environments.
You’ll begin with the foundations of management – key functions, leadership vocabularies, and the differences between managing and leading. From there, you’ll explore management styles, tone, hierarchy, and politeness strategies for effective communication. You’ll learn the essential language of leadership qualities, emotional intelligence, giving feedback, resolving conflict, and running meetings.
Your learning continues with practical frameworks like SWOT, SMART objectives, cost-benefit analysis, Belbin’s team roles, and Kotter’s model of change management. You’ll build the English needed to present ideas, justify decisions, communicate strategy, and speak confidently in cross-cultural contexts. Finally, you’ll develop the vocabulary and phrases required to lead remote and hybrid teams using modern communication tools.
With tasks, examples, dialogues, and downloadable PDFs, this course provides the essential Business English toolkit for anyone moving into leadership or management roles in a global environment.
After taking this course, you will be able to:
- Communicate as a confident manager or leader in English
- Describe structures, styles, roles, and team dynamics
- Motivate, guide, and support your team using clear and polite Business English
- Handle conflict, feedback, and difficult conversations professionally
- Present decisions, strategies, and company direction in clear English
- Adapt your leadership communication across cultures and organisational environments
- Lead remote teams using effective professional language
- Apply frameworks like SWOT, SMART, and cost-benefit analysis using the right terminology