Optima provide tailored foreign language training for business that improves client performance. Our target driven approach to learning ensures that the benefits to your organisation are specific and measurable whilst our training delivery is flexible and tailored to your specific requirements. Options include:

• Language Training Courses - full language programmes
• Business Language Boost - modular sessions
• Intensive Culture Experience - concentrated courses
• Open learning - self study support

Nearly 50% of all companies have lost business due to language barriers. If you are dealing with customers from overseas, then an understanding of their language and culture will bring far greater success. This is never more important than when you are dealing with new overseas markets or operating under difficult economic trading conditions.

Language skills can also help your own career and earning potential, particularly when working for foreign owned companies. The corporate language may be English, but an understanding of the cultural values and fluency in the native language can remove the "glass ceiling" barriers that can get in the way of your aspirations for career progression.

We believe that language training should integrate both language skills and cultural understanding. All of our programmes seek to create an awareness of the cultural sensitivities relevant to the target language and the learner's situation. For example, German language skills for making effective sales are more likely to improve company performance when the user also has an understanding of contextualised selling techniques and German attitudes to business.

We deliver effective language training when you want it, where you want it and how you want it!

We succeed when you achieve!