How to tell if you need language coaching?
Are you not sure if language coaching is the answer for you? Is your language level already quite good and can you generally do your job without any problems?
We give you 4 signs that tell you you could benefit from language coaching! It will boost not only your self-confidence but also your career
1. Lacking confidence
It’s a common story, you're managing to speak enough English to get by. People understand you and you can convey your point, but you're crumbling inside.
You can hear your mistakes. You should have prepared more. Your colleagues are better or more confident than you. You don’t seem to have time to focus on your bad habits and so you get by and hope for the best.
Sound familiar?
Most people who speak English as a second language declare that they long to express themselves at the same level as if it were their mother tongue. Anxiety, nerves and fear hold them back.
With a few straightforward techniques and a focus on building confidence, you realise that you know more than you think you know and the database in your brain needs to be activated and brought forward and used to its optimum
capacity.
2. Lost for words
Another ‘tell, tell’ sign that coaching is a worthwhile endeavour, is when I hear students say that they are beginning to frustrate themselves because they use the same vocabulary and feel that they lack the breadth or volume of vocabulary, phrases and idioms, to grow or engage the audience.
This leaves them feeling like they can’t come across in a professional, advanced and at a satisfactory level.
Coaching in this area, allows focused and specific targeting of vocabulary growth.
3. Your career has stalled, you've reached the glass ceiling
You have the deep, sinking feeling that colleagues or associates are developing and growing around you. They are getting the job opportunities or exposure to higher profile platforms, prospects and experiences and that you are being left behind.
Its time to dedicate your focus on your future goals. Set clear targets with realistic timelines and a comprehensive plan of attack. Then go for it! Execute the plan to the next level.
4. Looking for a new focus/challenge
You’ve been actively using English at work or socially. On holiday and occasionally in a spontaneous setting. You strive to speak like a native, you want to improve your grasp of idioms/expressions and regional sayings and phrases.
A temporary or permanent move to an English speaking country, magnifies your determination to elevate your level, optimise and stretch your potential. Maybe, your company has adopted English as the business language. You are expected to read, write and present in English.
Are you ready for that giant leap out of your comfort zone?
Coaching support defines your unique objectives and takes your evolution step by step. It guides you closer to your goals and builds on your potential and current skills.
So, believe in yourself and take the first step to a new level of confidence. Feel empowered in any setting that demands a better level of English.
‘Be strong enough to stand alone,
smart enough to know when you need help
and brave enough to ask for it’
Do you need help to improve your English language skills?
Then you can consult one of our language coaches at Squidll. Together you can broaden your vocabulary and practise useful expressions until you can actively and confidently use them.
Sign up on Squidll, find a business language coach who fits your needs and start on Squidll today.
