A Typical Tonyversity Learning Programme Nature of Enquiry. Contacted by a Senior Manager / Account-Handler of an online marketing consultancy. Request for a relatively intensive programme of higher-level, Business English to be delivered over two months to a key, junior manager / technical specialist in web-design who was being groomed for a promotion to Account Handler. Already I was beginning to see a need for something rather more than the delivery of English teaching, as the leap from technical specialist to presenter, negotiator and relationship-builder would require the development and enhancement of a range of different capabilities (even if English would be the primary language through which these skills would be demonstrated. Initial Meeting with Potential Learner. (Free of charge) I consider that a good relationship between tutor and learner is of critical importance: the better the relationship, the faster and the more enjoyable and productive the learning experience. Accordingly I invited the junior manager to come to meet me and spend some time in English discussing his job, his career aspirations and his specific needs and targets for learning and those of his employer. The meeting was carried out in an informal atmosphere, after work and away from the office, over an apéro. There were no ‘tests’, just relaxed conversation wich developed into drawing together a programme outline that fit both learner and employer targets within the broad resource ‘envelope’ available. Speaking and discussing a little in English also enabled me to establish the existing degree of language confidence and capability. This process took some two hours. In this case (and every case is necessarily different: a Tonyversity programme is tailored to the learner’s individual and distinctive needs & constraints), a programme of 21 hours of face-to-face learning was determined on the basis of 7 weekly sessions of 3 hours duration, timed to complete prior to his Account Handler interview. These sessions took place in the evening at Tonyversity in Bruebach (just South of Mulhouse). In the event, some sessions lasted over 4 hours and some only 2 given the energy level of the learner after a hard day at work. This programme outline (see below), was then costed and submitted with an estimate to the company for...
Read MoreA service specifically for individuals wanting to develop and enhance their own management capabilities to be able to advance in the labour market through promotion or seeking higher-level opportunities elsewhere. [This facility is also available to companies who might require such training inputs and support for key individuals or small teams as part of a Professional Development Programme.] This may involve:- Working with you on your cv and covering letter design, development and production for the global Anglophone market. Interview strategy development and rehearsal Development of higher-level capability in English applied to your particular business context, projects and priorities Development and enhancement of presentation, negotiation, strategic management and relationship-building skills Coaching, mentoring and advisory service – support and expertise from ‘outside’ the corporate ‘box’. English language and inter-cultural capability training to enable managers to apply and capitalise upon their existing language fluency in English in situations such as: Multi-cultural team participation and leadership Written and oral presentations in English Relationship-building and negotiation Interviews Adapting to life and work in the Anglophone world. Recently I have found myself working with: a manager seeking a career-change, preparing cvs and covering letters in English for multinational corporations where the working language is English. This also incorporated the development of interview strategies and repeated rehearsal against the particular requirements of Job Descriptions and Person Specifications. a junior manager seeking a significant promotion who needed both to hone his English and to sharpen some aspects of his management capability. a leisure service manager and successful French actor needing support to take up the challenge of a TV series anda significant part in improvisational comedy play where he will need to think, speak, act and react in English and within a distinctively English context. These are, as you will see, each very different situations with very different requirements which lie beyond the realm of Management or English textbooks. This is where Tonyversity experience ‘scores’ in being able to tailor things very much to client requirements. Links: An Illustration of a Tonyversity Learning Programme and its outcomes. Learning with Tonyversity: how we work...
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Are you a publisher, co-author or reader of Poetry written by Tony Jolley seeking access to www.tonyverses.com? Tonyversity will route you via the link below to Tony Jolley’s poetry and lyrics site Tonyverses where you can access what he has written, comment, get in contact, discuss, make offers to publish etc. Tony has been writing guitar music and lyrics since his youth (a fair time now!) and has also published on his site some 250 of his recent poetic outpourings on subjects many and varied. Presently the Tonyverses site is experimental – the template is up and I am ‘throwing’ content at it, but it is lacking a ‘Tonyverses’ masthead, homepage images and some aspects of navigation. That said – if you are desperate for an early peek – go take a look: Tonyverses...
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Are you a university student seeking access to materials upon programmes taught by Tony Jolley at Mulhouse, Colmar and Lörrach campuses? Links will shortly appear below to the various programmes: Mulhouse Students MICAI M1 Intercultural Management (Anglophone) MICAI M1 M2 Recruitment and Selection MICAI M2 Project Management (Anglophone) SCIMEC M1 English SCIMEC M2 English ENGLISH L3 Introduction to Business ‘One-Off’ Lectures Colmar Students LPHT Introduction to Tourism Macroeconomics LPHT Introduction to Culture and Communication in Tourism LPHT Tourism Sustainability LPHT Business Scenario ‘One-Off’ Lectures Lörrach Students Tourism Sustainability Tourism Product and Services Management International Tourism Research ‘One-Off’ Lectures The links (shortly to be) provided in respect of the above may require a login and password. Should this be the case, I will give you the codes you need at the start of your teaching...
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Are you seeking consultancy services relating to all aspects of Tourism development, management and training OR seeking teaching input to existing Tourism or Intercultural Management programmes? Tonyversity staff can bring to bear over 25 years of Tourism industry management and tourism teaching experience at degree and masters levels. This has involved, inter alia: • consultancy studies in respect of: evaluation of site potential for hotel development adjacent to a new motorway. [For a commercial Tourism Development company] evaluation of the potential for conversion into Timeshare of an existing, but outmoded, holiday village. [For a commercial Tourism Development company] comparative analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of all Marketing expenditures by a large, seaside, tourist destination. [For a Local Authority] comparative analysis of the nature and extent of website use for Tourism by local government in England and Wales. [For the Local Government Association] Analysis of the Tourism Comptitiveness of a County. [For an industry/academic Tourism Partnership] Analysis of the Information & Communication Technology training needs of a County’s Tourism industry. [For an industry/academic Tourism Partnership] • Successful applications to regional and national government Tourism funding sources for various industry/academic tourism partnership projects in training, technologies application, research etc, and the management of such projects. Successful applications to the European Union under funds such as the: European Regional Development Fund European Social fund ERASMUS for projects to improve the quality of the regional Tourism offer and the establishment of a multi-partner European Tourism Masters (with partners in France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Britain and the Netherlands). • Managing, within a British region, a government strategic Tourism investment scheme: assessing project feasibility, viability and suitability. • Managing Tourism Research and Development across a large British Tourism region. Involving working with local, regional and national organisations and corporations. • Developing and Managing a range of academic programmes in Tourism at Masters and Degree level [for Britain’s No1. Tourism teaching Institution: Bournemouth University.] • The Teaching of Tourism Management at Masters and Degree level in England, France and Germany covering subjects such as: Strategic Management for Tourism Tourism and Inter-cultural Management Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism and Leisure Public Sector Tourism Management Tourism Planning and Development Sustainability and Sustainable Tourism Tourism Project...
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Are you an Academic looking to translate from French and/or finesse drafts in English of journals, texts and other articles for submission to editors / publication in English. Tonyversity staff have in excess of 40 years of Higher Education experience, both managing and teaching (in addition to their industry careers) writing a vast range of types of documentation: articles for journals and periodicals course documentation virtual documents for online learning modules and other websites industry / academia partnership documents bids for funding to the European Union (ERDF/ESF etc) Tonyversity will draw upon such experience to: translate documentation from the French into an English appropriate to the medium to be used and to the readership. For example, recently Tonyversity has translated various technical journal articles (concerning online learning research) from French into a style of English suited to an higher level readership and expected of articles for submission to editors and peer-review panels of English and American academic journals. Tonyversity will also review existing drafts/ initial ‘translations’ prior to print with a view to ‘catching’ errors that often slip through the net when translations are done by non-industry specialists and non-native English speakers. Tonyversity staff also possess considerable Travel and Tourism industry and teaching experience and are particularly well-versed in reviewing Tourism guides, brochures, customer notices, menus, ‘bedroom browsers’ etc to assure accurate translation. Although Tonyversity will gladly review and correct/enhance documentation, where appropriate, this may also be undertaken as part of a staff training programme using such materials as the basis for English capability development. Tonyversity trainers are British, native English speakers and UK and French university Senior Lecturers in English and Intercultural Management with more than 20 years’ teaching and business management experience. (See ‘About Us’ for further details). The dovetailing of these commercial and education & training experiences makes Tonyversity unique and perfectly placed both to understand your distinctive commercial and personal needs & contexts and to design and deliver effective training responses at the individual and organisational...
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