ProLingua Global Language Accelerators
5-Step Language Coaching Programmes
for Finance Executives
Available languages: German. Hungarian.
Hello, I’m Gabriella Ferenczi
German & Hungarian language teacher and coach. A multi-passionate person and eternal optimist with a mission to help people achieve their goals.
In the past 12 years, I’ve worked with over 100 clients in the corporate sector who’ve learnt German or Hungarian with me.
I realised that these hard-working and time-poor individuals with massive responsibilities needed a different approach to learning a new language. That’s how the concept of the 5-step language coaching was born.
I believe that no one wants to learn a language.
- You want to speak it.
- You want to understand.
- You want to be understood.
- And you want to feel comfortable when speaking.
I want to eradicate one sentence from people’s minds, once and for all:
“It takes forever to learn a language.”
I want to show you that if Sir Sebastian Wood can learn to speak German – you can too. If His Excellency Ian Lindsay can deliver a speech in Hungarian – so can you.
Learning a language is not rocket science. And with the right approach, it doesn’t have to take years to reach a degree of fluency.
I designed a signature 5-step language coaching programme to meet the specific needs of executives in the financial services industry. The programme is now available to you – from ProLingua Global.
Language Coaching: a modern and holistic approach to learning a foreign language.
Available languages: German and Hungarian.
Imagine this:
You go to this gala event. You are introduced to the chief executive of the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The moment it’s your turn to speak, you switch to German or Hungarian.
You introduce yourself kindly and professionally.
You initiate a conversation, starting with a little small talk.
Their reaction: Seriously?! You speak our language?! That’s just so wonderful.
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.”
– Nelson Mandela –
Language coaching takes its inspiration and methodology from life and business coaching.
It helps you to get from where you are to where you want to be, in the fastest possible time. It’s a no-nonsense, very practical approach that suits even the busiest executives.
- Natural conversations are at the heart of the process.
- It’s based entirely on your needs, personality, learning style, schedule and availability.
- The main goal is to maximise your learning potential. Language Coaching reduces the time you need to become conversational, and ensures maximum enjoyment and cost effectiveness.
Goal setting, planning, constant feedback and reflecting are at the core of the process. It’s a highly rewarding personal development experience.
ProLingua Global’s language coaching programmes were created with the busiest finance executives in mind who …
- want to make a favourable impression when meeting colleagues, partners, clients, political leaders, diplomats and other decision makers
- don’t want to feel like an outsider when abroad on business
- are afraid they might embarrass themselves by saying something wrong (Fear no more! There’s a simple technique you can learn to avoid these dreaded situations.)
- want to take part in meaningful business and private discussions
- would like to feel more confident when speaking (in public)
- have a very limited time frame to achieve results and therefore, want to learn stuff that’s applicable and relevant
- want to get the most out of their investment
A typical session set-up, pre-covid times …
But I found the world of financial services especially interesting.
Through coaching my clients, I’ve learnt a lot about the world of banking and insurance, asset and wealth management.
Working with executives, I was taken aback by seeing the sense of responsibility and dedication that’s required to lead a company.
I saw how execs are trying to do their utmost best to ensure stakeholders are happy and that their people are empowered.They make hard decisions every day. They learn to trust their intuition and follow their guts.
I find it incredibly inspiring when I see their desire to not only develop their company but also do something for the greater good.
Available languages: German and Hungarian.
Interview with James
Testimonial
Helped me greatly on the telephone and on a few visits to Germany.
“I really enjoy the variety of methods & styles of teaching that Gabi offers with online podcasts, reading texts, listening to audio clips alongside traditional grammar exercises as well as word games. The methods combined with a variety of current topics, work & non-work related, have helped to build up my confidence in speaking the language where I have to react quicker.
These have all helped me greatly on the telephone and on a few visits to Germany both for work & pleasure when I found that I was able to converse competently.
The topics that we cover in the lessons have also given me a greater depth of understanding and appreciation of the German culture, customs and traditions. Gabi tailors each lesson to the individual student and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her.”
The unique 5-step ProLingua Language Coaching process for executives in the financial services industry
1. Diagnose
A thorough assessment of where you are right now, including assessment of your learning style, past experiences with language studies, as well as available time and current level of commitment.
2. Plan
We identify what would be the ideal outcome for you. We map out the language and identify key areas that are important and relevant to you. We then decide what’s urgent, what’s important and what would be nice to cover, so we can address these in the right order.
3. Learn
I coach you through natural conversations you are likely to encounter. We’ll be having great chats about topics and situations you’re likely to encounter, you’d like to know about. We make notes, read authentic articles, and build up your vocabulary step by step. We observe the structure of the language and you learn grammar by discovery and practice. I have a vast experience in conversations related to the financial services industry.
4. Refine
Through constant feedback and support and with a careful approach to mistake correction, you learn from your mistakes in a safe and encouraging environment. As time goes by, you may find that your goals have changed slightly, or that there’s something important that’s just come up and we should address in our sessions. As you are the driver of the process and I am your coach, you’re free to take a detour or rewrite the whole route. If your needs change, so does the journey.
5. Implement
The point of learning a language is to be able to take what you’ve learnt outside the ‘classroom’ and practice it. Use it in real life situations, with speakers of the language That requires you to be brave, to step outside your comfort zone and that’s where the real deal is. We help you with simple strategies to approach these real life scenarios, so you’re confident and proud of what you’ve achieved – no matter what level you’re at.
The goal: To help you to reach your desired language level
in a way that requires the least amount of effort from you,
and fits seamlessly into your busy schedule.
To ensure we can deliver consistently high-quality services, my capacity is limited to 10 key clients at any one time.
Therefore, I am selective with clients.
I only work with people I genuinely believe I can serve well and who would really benefit from this approach.
Applications are now open for our boutique language coaching programmes starting in the summer 2020.
What matters most is being able to understand and to be understood.
When you do these individual language coaching programmes, you’ll notice that you’ll
- no longer feel like a complete outsider when attending meetings or events,
- communicate more effectively and productively with partners,
- feel more confident when speaking in the target language,
- follow conversations and talk freely in important situations.
Over the course of the programmes, you’ll go through a very rewarding personal development journey where you’ll learn as much about the target language as you’ll learn about different cultures – and yourself.
As a result, you’ll start to speak the language confidently, you’ll understand what’s being said to you. You’ll finally be understood – it’s such a wonderful feeling!
You’ll see that you can develop better and more meaningful relationships with foreign partners, colleagues and decision makers.
Testimonial
“Gabi’s coaching has led me to a broader and deeper understanding of German culture“
“I did not learn German at all at school, and had been thinking that was a gap in my education, so I taught myself up to a certain level from text books. I enjoyed doing that, but wanted to go further in developing my fluency and understanding, and that is where I was fortunate to find Gabi as my language coach. Coaching still involves some traditional elements of language learning, and I am entirely comfortable with that, but it offers a lot more besides. Sessions are conducted entirely in German, and that has given me much more confidence in speaking the language.
Also, coaching allows me to explore areas of particular interest to me, […], and reading and discussion with my coach reinforces my enthusiasm to learn, while giving me a broader understanding of German culture and introducing new subjects for me to explore. We also discuss current affairs, customs and beliefs, social and scientific developments and a variety of other subjects, and I feel I have developed a very good understanding of German culture through this method of language learning.
Of course, you have to be motivated to learn in order to benefit fully from the coaching approach, but I can honestly say that each session is inspiring, I am constantly finding new subjects to explore, and Gabi’s coaching has led me to a broader and deeper understanding of German culture and a greater confidence in language use than I had thought possible.”
Pricing
Language Coaching, like any other training programme, is indeed an investment. And to achieve your goal, I need leverage on you. Without enough leverage, you won’t take it seriously enough, there won’t be enough drive and consequently, there won’t be enough change.
I work with 20-session modules
to ensure I deliver the result you are after.
Get in touch so I can show you
1. what you can achieve
2. in what time frames and
3. what investment that would entail
You’ll then be able to make an informed decision on what the right way forward is for you. Whether we are the right fit and we end up working with each other or not, I’d be honoured to share with you some of the best practices that I know will trigger those language skills in you that you never even knew existed.
An important charitable cause we support
Philanthropy is hugely important to me.
All ProLingua Global training programmes include a donation to London’s Air Ambulance Charity.
Every day, they bring the hospital emergency department to people who are critically injured and in need of urgent medical care. London’s Air Ambulance Charity deliver life-saving treatment to the 10 million people who live and work in London.
To find out more about our prices, approach and what you can achieve within certain time frames, fill in this contact form to ask for our brochure:
We’re all going through extremely challenging times. The Coronavirus outbreak is changing life as we know it, it’s changing the way we work and interact with each other.
If language learning has been on your agenda for a while, perhaps this will now be the right time when you’ll be able to fit it into your busy schedule.
Knowing a language is a skill for life. Learning it takes time which can be reduced to the bare minimum following the right approach and given the right environment.
What you don’t want is wasting precious time on courses that won’t create lasting change and won’t bring the results you’re after.
Everyone can learn a language
Everyone can develop a voice in a foreign language without embarrassing themselves.
All it takes are a few simple techniques.
Get in touch now to request our brochure with more practical information on language learning strategies for finance executives. Whether you become a client or not, I’d be pleased to send this to you as I know that you’ll find plenty of valuable information in there that you wouldn’t find anywhere else.
Stay safe, take care.
With very best wishes,
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ProLingua Global Ltd
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