Creating winning teams - in the UK and internationally

Communication skills

A participant presents to the group

Our most popular communication courses in 2008

• Powerful Presentations and Public Speaking
• Present with Confidence at International Meetings
• Diction Coaching

OPC trains and coaches both groups and individuals to present information effectively in meetings, whether in the UK or internationally. In business, whether face-to-face, on the telephone or in a presentation, it is important to be clear, confident and make a positive impact. It's even more important in a mixed-nationality event. 

We help you to be clear and to achieve your aims

Your ability to build business and professional relationships is all-important. It depends on how you interact with people on a personal level, how you speak and how well you listen.

The way you speak is important too. If your voice is unusually quiet, you may appear to lack confidence. If your pronunciation is unusual or you have a heavy foreign accent, you may be hard to understand. However fluent you are, if your English sounds different to what your listeners are accustomed to, they will be confused. And if your English is perfect but your delivery very fast, you may be impossible for international colleagues to understand.

We make sure you express yourself powerfully yet respectfully, and are understood easily. If you work across cultures, we help you develop better skills in International English: we show you where problems are likely to occur and practical and easy-to-follow ways in which you can overcome them. 

• Choose the skills you want to develop for your company...

  For team-building or leadership development, for mixed-nationality or international meetings, we will create a bespoke programme to meet your business needs.


• Our specialist presentation coaching ...
  Tell us your needs and we will create a programme to improve your presentations, whatever your level of experience. We start the process by discussing the results you want, analysing the audiences you will address and discovering what experience you already have. One option is our Make Your Point International programmes Click for more information

• We improve your diction, delivery, pronunciation and enunciation...
  Through our Diction Coaching programmes, your colleagues and partners will understand you more easily in business meetings, presentations and on the phone.  Our rigorous process will analyse the way you speak English and help you to improve clarity. Whatever your mother tongue, we can help.

• The Export Communications Review

  OPC also provides the Export Communications Review. An OPC consultant helps you increase export volume through increased cultural sensitivity and communication skills.

If you need to improve your use of English at work

If you lack confidence when communicating in English in business and professional situations, or if your English is weak because it is not your first language, we help you in three specific ways: