Multilingual workforce: challenges and opportunities

Multilingual workforce: challenges and opportunities

Multilingualism Multiculturalism Work environment Communication Best practices

Nadezhda Chalykh

Nadezhda Chalykh is a trainer, consultant and keynote speaker. She specializes in intercultural communication. Her approach is based on practical, dynamic and engaging learning.

 

Better problem-solving skills, higher flexibility, stronger result orientation … These are some of numerous advantages a multilingual workforce has versus a monolingual one. 

However, multilingual environments also come with a number of challenges:

  • Different levels of language proficiency create difficulties in understanding tasks and requirements.

  • Ideas and opinions are not fully expressed by non-native speakers.

  • Levels of engagement in corporate activities are lower than expected.

  • There are tensions between team members on the topic of politeness.

Good news is that the solutions to these challenges are within a multilingual team.

This conference will benefit participants in:

  • Understanding how to overcome communication challenges related to multilingual environments

  • Learning how to use multilingual team’ inner resources to enhance collaboration, creativity and inclusion

  • Getting confident about their linguistic skills when expressing ideas and opinions in a non-native language

The conference is interactive and will equip participants with practical tips to use in their day to day work.


 
 

 

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