“Practical approaches to integrating soft skills development in your teaching and training” with Timothy Phillips

It’s all about the mix! Practical approaches to integrating soft skills development in your teaching and training.

Many ELT teachers and in-company trainers feel insecure with the thought of integrating the training of soft skills into their practice. In this hands-on workshop we will be exploring a range of easy-to-use activities that focus on training those key employability skills which have often been identified in many recent studies: communication, collaboration and creativity.

The activities can be used as separate training tools or they can be combined in a systematic process which enables the ongoing development of our learners’ behavioural skills.

Workshop participants will experience these activities and training process not only as learners. We will also be looking at our role as trainers and at how we can facilitate the learning process of behavioural skills by adopting these activities.

The process itself derives from a training approach which has enabled more open communication and innovation at companies such as Toyota, Siemens and many others. Tim is certified as an Innovation Trainer and Coach and brings to this process his 30+ years of ELT experience in a range of different contexts.

Depending on the Covid-19 situation at the time, the workshop will be held either in-person or online. Regardless of the format, the other training context – online or in-person – will be taken into account. In this way participants will be to able adapt their learnings to their own training environments.

Bio:

Based in Germany, Tim has worked for over 30 years in a range of roles within the EFL industry as well as the corporate training sector. He has gained deep insight into companies learning and development needs, having worked across Europe and in South-East Asia.

He is qualified as an Innovation Trainer (accredited by the Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg) and as a Coach. He is also the proud and grateful owner of an ELTAS 30 years celebration coffee mug!

You can view a BESIG webinar Tim held in March 2021 on the future of Business English training here.

Note:

The new ISM building at 20 Maybachstrasse is a 2-minute walk from the Maybachstrasse tram stop and a 5-minute walk from the Pragsattel tram stop.