As the corporate world warms up toglobalization and companies strive to meet the global standards,there’s need to upgrade the employee skills and enhance theirperformance levels. This paves way for an urgent need for corporatetraining and development industry. In order to meet the emerging needsof the corporate sector, world leaders in soft skills training, ‘SpeakFirst’ collaborates with the ISIL-Indian School of Integrated Learningto form a first-of-its-kind collaboration in India. The initiative hasbeen devised by Mr. Vijay Moza who is also credited for introducingthe successful Clinical Research and Education Management Academy(CREMA).
Using the proven training methods of Speak First, ISIL will help thecorporate organizations, professionals, students and educationalinstitutions develop essential business proficiency developmentskills. ISIL will seek expertise from ‘Speak First’ on effectivecommunication, presentation skills, personal impact training, mediaskills, interviewing techniques, cultural awareness and many more softskills solutions, which have already been tried and tested across theglobe.
For over 20 years, Speak First has provided training and coaching toclients across industries, sectors and continents. Speak First’s largeinternational clients include KPMG, Unilever, Cognizant, Black &Decker, EMC, UNESCO, Ernst & Young, etc. They already have trainersall over the world speaking a range of different languages, with aEuropean Headquarters in London and an Asia Pacific headquarters inAuckland. Their decision to collaborate with ISIL is the next stepinto global expansion, providing innovative, practical communicationskills and soft skills training across the country. Speak First willalso send their expert trainers to ISIL regularly, for variousassignments.
Amanda Vickers, Managing Director of ‘Speak First’, “India is avibrant country brimming with potential. We are delighted to beinvolved with helping people develop much needed soft skillsthroughout India through our alliance with ISIL.”
“The service will develop the skills of both graduates and corporateprofessionals seeking to improve their prospects and their businesssuccess,” adds Amanda Vickers.
With the business environment rapidly expanding in India, there is ahuge demand for quality corporate communication skills training. Thereis lack of providers with the experience and expertise to giveprofessionals the standard they require. ISIL will be using both localand Western experienced trainers to provide communication skillstraining to individuals and organisations, helping them improve theirbusiness effectiveness.
Mr. Vijay Moza, Chairman of the Indian School of Integrated Learning,“The idea is to bridge the competency divide between professionalsseeking to be a part of the sector and the companies trying to cutdown on training time and related costs. Training in soft skillsbecomes relevant more so in countries like India where the educationsystem lacks the resources to delve into personality development.”
Today software companies look for fresh graduates who are trained upin industry culture and well-versed with soft skills and communicationskills, along with the industry knowledge. Professionals who want toget trained up in soft-skills now have this option, with this businessproficiency skills development school.
ISIL programmes will be conducted by experienced corporate trainers,professional managers and behavioral specialists. These programmeshave been designed by ISIL’s international associate ‘Speak First’.Speak First is a specialist training company helping people around theworld to communicate more effectively in business. The soft skillsprogramme content has been customized to meet the Indian requirementsand the programmes are flexible enough to be customized for specificcorporate needs.
ISIL plans to impart these soft skill lessons to the corporateentities at its four fully equipped training centers, enhanced withthe wi-fi technology. Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad have beenidentified as the centers that will impart soft skills traininginitially followed by other cities as well.
