Meeting your needs

The British Council is a global leader in delivering quality English language and skills training. In Bulgaria we offer a unique corporate training programme to meet your company’s needs and training objectives. Whether your goals are language or business skills-related, we can advise you on appropriate training and can also work with your HR department on a training needs analysis to establish a realistic long term plan.

We offer the following:

• Business skills workshops

Our business skills workshops are short intensive training courses (1 or 2 full days) that develop business and communication skills in English for people working in a wide range of professions. All workshops use practical interactive training methods to help you work with greater confidence.

We also offer a customisation service so that these courses fully meet the needs of your staff. Workshops are held at a time and place suitable for you, and this can be at the British Council’s premises. Please contact us to discuss your training needs.

These are the public 1-day workshops that we offer at the moment:

3 November: Written Communications Skills

What can this course do for you?

•It will enable you to write business letters, faxes and e-mails that are persuasive, correct and professional.

•It will enable you to understand what effect your written English has on your business contacts.

•It will enable you to ensure that all your correspondence is relevant, accurate and that conveys your message clearly.

•The materials you receive will be an invaluable manual on business correspondence for you to refer to in the future.

Price: 150 leva

24 November: Effective Negotiation Skills

What can this course do for you?

•It will show you how to plan and prepare for effective meetings

•It will show you how to make the most effective use of meetings ensuring your message is heard

•It will show you how to plan and prepare a negotiation strategy or series of negotiations.

•It will show you how to conduct a negotiation to gain the desired short term and long term results.

Price: 150 leva

1 December: Effective Presentation Skills

What can this course do for you?

What can this course do for you?

•It will enable you to prepare presentations that are persuasive and professional.

•It will enable you to understand what effect your voice and body language has on your audience.

•It will enable you to deal with follow up questions and discussions with confidence.

Price: 150 leva

• In-company general English and business English courses

English language training courses can be provided to cover every possible range of clients’ needs ranging from the general to the specific (such as legal English, financial English and others).

Our courses help you develop your communication skills, speak more fluently improve your grammar and learn new vocabulary.

Our Approach to Training

It’s a partnership. We view our clients as ‘training partners’ and pride ourselves on our commitment to understanding our partners’ needs and delivering training services that meet their specific business requirements and standards.

• Public English language training courses

These courses cover all levels of General English, Business English, Exam Preparation Classes or Effective Speaking Skills classes and run over 12 week terms. Participants are asked to come to the British Council Teaching Centre during the registration week prior to the term start for placement testing and registration.