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Enterprise Collaboration: Setting the Foundation
How you can set up your company with the right foundation to achieve success Why should you care about enabling collaboration? It’s simple. Fundamentally, enterprise collaboration helps companies perform more efficiently every single day, which significantly improves employee performance and … Continue reading
Posted in Being effective globally, Business English, Business Performance, Capabilities and power of the cloud, Effective Virtual Teams, Enterprise Fluency, Enterprise productivity & performance
Tagged CIOs, communication and collaboration, employee collaboration, Enterprise Collaboration, enterprise social collaboration platform, Forrester Research, GlobalEnglish Bloom™, IBM Global CIO Study, Mahesh Ram, Michael Fauscette, Sara Roberts
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How to Get to the Top of the Enterprise Fluency™ Maturity Model
And what will happen when you get there? We previously introduced the Enterprise Fluency™ Maturity Model designed by Bersin & Associates, which looks at the relationship between how a global organization approaches business communication and how that approach influences its … Continue reading
Posted in Building a 21st Century Workforce, Business Challanges, Business English, English Communication & Language Skills, Enterprise Fluency, GlobalEnglish Corporation
Tagged Bersin & Associates, business, Business English, communications, Enterprise Fluency, Enterprise Fluency Maturity Model by Bersin & Associates, global, global business, GlobalEnglish, Mahesh Ram
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Where Does Your Company Fall on the Enterprise Fluency™ Maturity Model?
Four distinct levels, with highly different business results We were very fortunate to have worked closely with Bersin & Associates recently, a research firm that digs deep to discover the “secret sauce” that makes high-performing organizations high performing. In one … Continue reading
Posted in Building a 21st Century Workforce, Business Challanges, Business English, English Communication & Language Skills, Enterprise Fluency, Global Communication Best Practices, Global Trends
Tagged Bersin & Associates, business communication, communication support, Enterprise Fluency, Enterprise Fluency™ Maturity Model designed by Bersin & Associates, global communication, GlobalEnglish, Mahesh Ram
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When Global Enterprises Go English-Only
It’s a bold decision…but a necessary one It was a forward-thinking move, but not a surprising decision: In March 2010, Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, told the 7,100 workers gathered at the company’s Tokyo headquarters that they had to … Continue reading
Social Collaboration in the Global Workplace
How social technology is creating new challenges and opportunities for non-native English-speaking workers in global companies The growth of social collaboration has undoubtedly made the mastery of Business English more important than ever. But our recent Business English Index research … Continue reading
Posted in Business Challanges, Business English, English Communication & Language Skills, Technology Trends
Tagged Business English, Business English Index, global workplace, GlobalEnglish Bloom, GlobalEnglish LinGo Pro, Non-native English speakers, put English to work, Social Collaboration, social technology
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55-Hour Work Weeks Aren’t Helping Productivity or Profits
Improved Business English skills may be the solution your company needs to boost performance In a recent article for AlterNet, Sara Robinson presents an argument that your employees would likely support: “The single easiest, fastest thing your company can do … Continue reading
Innovation, Communication and Success: Introducing the 2012 Business English Index (BEI)
GlobalEnglish launches the 2012 Business English Index It’s time to change how you think about English in the global workplace. Why? Because our new index that measures Business English proficiency in the workplace uncovered the fact that a worldwide lack of … Continue reading
