Advanced Business English for Professionals – Level 2

About Course

Advanced Business English for Professionals – Level 2 is the final stage of the advanced Business English pathway.

The course focuses on leadership communication, organizational performance, strategic storytelling, change management, and executive-level interaction.

Participants continue to develop through two complementary tracks.

Theoretical Sessions focus on advanced leadership and executive communication competencies.

Practical Sessions use business topics from Market Leader Upper Intermediate to develop fluency, vocabulary, analysis, decision-making, and discussion skills.

The program prepares participants to communicate more effectively in senior-level, strategic, and high-pressure professional environments.

By the end of Level 2, you will be able to:
Conduct effective coaching and feedback conversations.
Manage performance discussions professionally.
Communicate organizational change clearly.
Handle resistance and uncertainty during change.
Collaborate across departments and functions.
Improve organizational alignment and teamwork.
Use storytelling to communicate strategy and business ideas.
Present complex messages to senior audiences.
Communicate effectively in boardroom-style environments.
Defend recommendations and respond to challenging questions.
Discuss business risk and strategic opportunity.
Compare different management and leadership styles.
Discuss team performance and collaboration.
Understand the language of finance and investment.
Discuss mergers, acquisitions, and organizational change.

Course Content

Session 1 — Theoretical: Coaching, Feedback & Performance Conversations
Learn how to conduct constructive feedback, coaching, and performance conversations. Develop the language needed to identify performance gaps, ask effective questions, support development, and communicate expectations professionally.

Session 2 — Practical: Risk, Opportunity & Business Decisions
Explore how organizations identify, evaluate, and manage risk. Discuss uncertainty, probability, potential impact, risk-taking, opportunity, and the role of judgement in business decision-making.

Session 3 — Theoretical: Leading Change & Managing Resistance
Develop the communication skills needed to guide people through organizational change. Learn how to explain change, address concerns, manage resistance, maintain trust, and build support during periods of uncertainty.

Session 4 — Practical: Leadership in Action: Management Styles
Explore different approaches to management and leadership. Compare leadership styles, discuss delegation, decision-making, motivation, employee autonomy, and how managers adapt their style to different situations.

Session 5 — Theoretical: Cross-Functional Collaboration & Organizational Alignment
Learn how to communicate and collaborate effectively across departments, teams, and professional functions. Explore how organizations manage competing priorities, shared objectives, accountability, and coordination.

Session 6 — Practical: Building High-Performance Teams
Explore the characteristics of effective teams. Discuss team roles, trust, collaboration, accountability, communication, conflict, performance, and the factors that contribute to successful teamwork.

Session 7 — Theoretical: Business Storytelling & Strategic Messaging
Learn how to transform information, data, and ideas into clear and memorable business narratives. Develop techniques for communicating strategy, vision, change, and recommendations in a way that engages and influences professional audiences.

Session 8 — Practical: Funding Growth: Raising Finance
Explore how companies raise money to grow and invest. Develop the language needed to discuss investment, funding, investors, debt, equity, financial performance, business growth, and financial decision-making.

Session 9 — Theoretical: Boardroom Communication & Executive Leadership
Develop the communication skills required for senior-level meetings and executive discussions. Learn how to present recommendations, challenge ideas professionally, defend decisions, respond to difficult questions, and communicate with authority under pressure.

Session 10 — Practical: The Big Deal: Mergers & Acquisitions
Explore the business language and strategic considerations involved in mergers and acquisitions. Discuss valuation, negotiation, integration, organizational change, potential benefits, risks, and the impact of major business deals.

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What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Session 2 — Practical: Risk, Opportunity & Business Decisions Explore how organizations identify, evaluate, and manage risk. Discuss uncertainty, probability, potential impact, risk-taking, opportunity, and the role of judgement in business decision-making.

Session 3 — Theoretical: Leading Change & Managing Resistance Develop the communication skills needed to guide people through organizational change. Learn how to explain change, address concerns, manage resistance, maintain trust, and build support during periods of uncertainty.

Session 4 — Practical: Leadership in Action: Management Styles Explore different approaches to management and leadership. Compare leadership styles, discuss delegation, decision-making, motivation, employee autonomy, and how managers adapt their style to different situations.

Session 6 — Practical: Building High-Performance Teams Explore the characteristics of effective teams. Discuss team roles, trust, collaboration, accountability, communication, conflict, performance, and the factors that contribute to successful teamwork.

Session 8 — Practical: Funding Growth: Raising Finance Explore how companies raise money to grow and invest. Develop the language needed to discuss investment, funding, investors, debt, equity, financial performance, business growth, and financial decision-making.

Session 10 — Practical: The Big Deal: Mergers & Acquisitions Explore the business language and strategic considerations involved in mergers and acquisitions. Discuss valuation, negotiation, integration, organizational change, potential benefits, risks, and the impact of major business deals.