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Atlas ProfessionalEnglish Programmes for Professionals

Whatever your company or organisation, excellent English language

and communication skills will help you make your mark in the business world.

Atlas ProfessionalWe deliver customised training to improve your English language, communication and cross-cultural skills. We aim to be the destination of choice for busy professionals seeking to prepare themselves for international working.All Atlas Professional courses are highly interactive, practical, and skills-based, focusing on developing confident, articulate English-language communicators. We can deliver custom designed courses in an inspiring environment in the heart of Dublin.

We commit to:• develop a clear understanding of your business and the goals you have• design custom language programmes to meet these needs• develop you and your people’s English language

and professional communication skills to help them perform more confidently and effectively

• provide ongoing feedback and report on the progress of our clients

Whether you are just starting your career or are already at the top I am sure a course with Atlas Professional will boost your English-language skills and confidence. Whatever your background, we guarantee a very warm welcome to Dublin and a great learning experience at our school.

Gary TennantAcademic Manager

Portobello

Our Approach

Our approach begins with developing a clear understanding of your business and your goals. The highly practical, goal-orientated courses that we design initially focus attention on helping clients develop the functional language and skills to enable them to perform effectively in specific work situations such as presentations, meetings and negotiations. As courses progress, we widen the focus and work with you to develop more interpersonal and intercultural skills, for example, for building rapport and inuencing others from other cultures. All classes are small, so all clients get plenty of individual attention and opportunities to participate.

Our Programmes

We have two core programmes:

1. Atlas Professional Full Immersion

Our full immersion programmes run for either 3 days (30 hours) or 5 days (50 hours) and are aimed at groups and individuals who require a highly interactive and practical English language skills full immersion course. Each course is designed to meet your specific requirements.

2. Atlas Professional In Company

These programmes are designed for individuals or small groups of 2-6 people from the same company, based either locally or internationally. Our trainers come to you.

Bene�ts

To you:

• Communicate clearly and effectively• Write accurately and politely• Improve pronunciation & betterunderstand native speakers

• Interact more conþdently in the workplace• Acquire skills to use immediately• Develop learning strategies for the future

To your company:

• Improved motivation and job performance• Enhance your training culture• Greater organisational cohesiveness• Greater understanding of the culture ofyour international partners

Our People

Our Atlas Professional trainers are English language specialists as well as experienced business professionals. Like our clients, they are highly motivated and familiar with the demands of the world of business.

With backgrounds in management, IT, finance and law, we select the trainers who can best meet the specific needs required by each group and individual. They are committed to making your English and international communication training as interesting and as relevant to your career and organisational goals as possible.

The training team is supported by our dedicated administration team who provide a friendly and efficient service from your initial enquiry, through the course delivery to post-course follow ups.

1. AP Full Immersion - Individuals / Groups Our small group immersion programmes are designed and delivered as 3-day (30 hours) or 5-day (50 hours) short courses. These intensive, tailor-made courses aim to develop a range of business communication skills together with a cross-cultural awareness that will help you build rapport and more confidently interact when doing business internationally.

Learning goals are agreed at the outset, and regular feedback and reporting ensures that objectives remain realistic and relevant. The tailored programme may include some or all of the following subject areas: making a strong first impression, participating in meetings and teleconferences, giving effective presentations and product promotions, conducting negotiations, pronunciation enhancement, intercultural awareness and building rapport, effective written communication techniques, clarity in report writing, communicating clearly on the telephone and developing role, company and sector-specific vocabulary.

timetableFeatures of our Atlas Professional Programmes

• Lessons in authentic business settings• Evening welcome drink and networking opportunity• Use of media centre• Upstream online induction tutorials• Post-course, downstream tasks• Working breakfast and lunch options• Personal learning plan for continued study• Ongoing Programme Monitoring• ESP (English for Specific Purposes) programmes• Option of BULATS testing• Authentic and relevant material from business

journals and news media• Multiple trainers for increased exposure to teaching

styles / methodologies• Evening / weekend training options• Tailored social and cultural components• Premium transport

Atlas Professional Full Immersion Sample TimetableThe Atlas Professional Full Immersion course is an intensive and fast-paced programme designed for ambitious learners. The small group option combines the dynamics of group training with a focus on each trainee’s individual needs in the carefully designed daily Individual Support Sessions. The individual one-to-one training option concentrates entirely on the trainee’s priority areas.

sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Working breakfast Working breakfast

Workshop #1Making a strong first

impression

Workshop #2Giving effectivepresentations

Workshop #4Conductingnegotiations

Workshop #5Developing

company and sector specific

vocabulary 1

Workshop #7Participating

in meetings andteleconferences 1

Workshop #8Making recommendations

Workshop #7Negotiation theory and

practice

Global recap role-play:Presentation

Q & ANegotiation

Group Feedback and debriefing.

Planning next steps

Setting up of individual action plan

Working lunch Working lunch

Arrival & check-in

Overview of week & Objectives

Ground rules & Briefing

Workshop #3Improving

Pronunciation 1

Tutorial #1Individual Support Session

Workshop #6Improving

Pronunciation 2

Tutorial #2Individual Support Session

Workshop #9Giving effectivepresentations 2

Tutorial #3Individual Support Session

Tutorial #4Individual Support Session

Workshop #8Wrap up negotiation

Return flight

Evening meal (social English skills)

Evening meal

Exchange, general discussion

Social English

International CuisineCookery class and meal

Social English

Evening MealExchange with Irish

Entrepreneurs

Social English

Quiz

Cultural visit of Dublin’s Historic Georgian Quarter

Global Quiz

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Total contact hours

Working breakfasts to practise business small talk and making arrangements

Role plays with input and feedback by the tutor

Working lunches to practise specific language with other trainees and trainers

Use of texts to develop key vocabulary and serve as a focus for discussions

Small group work linked to specific language and communication tasks

Focus for Individual Support SessionDeveloping company and sector-specific vocabularyGrammar and functional language reviewImproving pronunciation

Videoing presentations for analysis and feedback

2. AP In-Company -Individuals / Groups The Individual and Closed Group In-Company intensive programme is designed for professionals who are looking to develop their language skills in an intensive one-to-one or in-company small group setting. The content of your specialised training solution will be determined by personal / organisational requirements.

For individuals who are based in Dublin or are visiting company offices here we can embed training in-house to make maximum use of your real working environment. This often includes shadowing clients in the workplace with language training and ‘hot’ feedback being delivered through the day.

Past intensive courses have focussed on these work areas:

• An introduction to Ireland and doing businesshere

• Negotiating contracts• Management and HR• Branding and promotional strategies• Project management• Culture and business strategies• Maintaining and developing relationships

And you will develop important workplace skills such as:

• Making a strong first impression• Giving opinions & presenting different scenarios• Making recommendations• Conducting negotiations – chairing and

participating in business meetings• Making presentations• Writing emails• Skills for Telephone and Conference Calls

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Role plays with input and feedback by the tutor

Innovative and dynamic out-of-class course features

Individual Support Sessions

Upstream and downstream online testing, needs analysis, course induction and follow up tutorials

I loved the working lunch options - they’ve really given me confidence for informal client meetings. (Andreas Rollemberg, Switzerland)

It was great to get to know the trainers on the online pre-arrival sessions – fantastic idea! (Oscar Castellarnau, Spain)

Extremely professional trainers with real-life business experience. Excellent programme. (Jürgen Adler, Germany)

The individual tutorials on the EU Project Masters course helped me focus on my specific problems with writing proposals. (Maxine Bouchard, France)

Course Progression

What our clients say

DESIGN DELIVERY CONCLUSION

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Diagnostic Training Needs Analysis

Tailored Programme Proposal

Core Programme Confirmation

Pre-Arrival Induction & Tasks with your Tutor (online)

Commence-ment of Programme

Ongoing Programme Monitoring - evaluations and reports

Post-Course Follow-Up with your Tutor (online)

Training Needs Consultancy / Design - A member of our Atlas Professional team will work with you to arrange an initial language skills assessment and a discussion of your specific needs and objectives. Once the content and format of your programme have been confirmed, trainees can start to build a working relationship with their Atlas Professional coach through pre-course online sessions. These pre-course tasks allow trainees to prepare more effectively and hit ground running the moment they arrive in Dublin.

Delivery - Courses are delivered by our training team through a variety of session types from trainer-led input sessions, trainee-led case study workshops and individual language support sessions with a personal tutor.

Conclusion - The demands of work and business mean that our language coaching needs to be fast-paced and results-focused. As such, our programmes also benefit from our on-going Programme Monitoring system. This includes mid-programme feedback and an end of programme evaluation and report from your tutor. We suggest that this review and any post-course recommendations are discussed in follow-up sessions online.

AccommodationAtlas Professional offers a choice of accommodation from 5-star city centre hotels to our own executive host families. These families have been selected by us for the exceptionally warm and friendly welcome to and stay in Dublin they provide, as well as the charming house they have.

Social ProgrammeStudying in Dublin brings an additional advantage – full immersion in an English-speaking city faraway from the distractions of your office. Our social programme helps you absorb the language and culture outside the classroom and provides you with additional opportunities to practise the English you are learning.• Welcome evening meal and ice-breakers• Meeting local business people and entrepreneurs• Driving-on-the-other-side-of-road “lesson”• Working breakfasts and lunches with other

trainees and trainers• Live shows and entertainment in Dublin• Time your short course to coincide with

international rugby matches• Dublin literary walking tour• Trips to the beautiful Glendalough Valley

Our partner networks

We have considerable combined experience of providing successful English and international communication training programmes to a large number of individuals, companies and organisations based both here in Dublin and across Europe. We have helped a variety of organisations, large and small, from manufacturing to financial services and governmental bodies. Lawyers, sales people and EU project managers whose English skills need to be world class are just some of the types of clients who have chosen to study with us. Whatever your business and whatever your needs, we will be happy to meet with you to discuss how we can contribute to developing the language and communication skills in your organisation.

We work with...

Spain

Ireland, Italy

Ireland

Ireland

Ireland, Switzerland

France, Switzerland

… and many other international privateand public sector organisations.

For more information regarding Atlas Professional, contact:Kathi GerthTel: +353 1 531 2216Email: kathi@atlaslanguageschool.com

Why Dublin?Dublin has built a strong reputation in the financial and pharmaceutical sectors over the past 20 years. In addition companies such as Google, eBay, Facebook and Microsoft have based their European Headquarters here, putting Dublin on the map as one of the world’s technology hubs. The new Dublin attracts skilled professionals from all around the world and is a modern, dynamic and multicultural city. It has a wealth of social and cultural options for executive clients, providing the perfect location for professional English language programmes.