Improve the effectiveness of your English communications.
Set the highest standard for your English-language
business communications.
Improve your confidence, clarity and accuracy in the global workplace.
Effective English means good business, especially when English is not your native language. That’s why we provide leading-edge training and soft-skills coaching in business English — all customized to your company’s needs in international communications. So whether you’re giving a presentation, writing an email, negotiating an agreement or having a break-room chat, you can increase your accuracy, confidence, credibility and impact.
At Standard Business Communication, we’re not just teaching English. We’re using best practices to create effective international businesspeople. We can’t wait to show you how.
Better English.
For business, for everyday, for life.
Services
From readymade classes to custom training, we offer affordable solutions to fit your employees’ needs for improved business English. Whether you want a group seminar or private coaching — at your place or ours — we can help. Please read more about our services. Then contact us to tailor a service for your organization.
Group and Individual Training
One-on-one: Presentation Coaching
Looking for more personal attention than a group setting allows? Need urgent assistance for a presentation tomorrow? We offer one-on-one coaching to support you at every step of your preparation, from brainstorming ideas to doing a dry run.
We also provide video feedback so you can see your progress first-hand, and we can meet at your office, at another location, or remotely — to suit your needs. With our expert coaching, you can make your next presentation your best one yet.
One-on-one: Business English
Need a focused approach to polishing your business English? As a manager, do you want to improve your international communication skills in private, away from your staff?
We provide one-on-one training — customized to your needs — on everything from business-English basics to presentations to managing an international team. So you can feel confident that you’re using the right words and phrases for your intended meaning, sending clear messages and positioning yourself as a competent international businessperson. We’re available as needed to improve your English proficiency — or on a weekly schedule of 60-minute sessions.
In-house training: Ongoing English Essentials
Do your employees need an ongoing arrangement for English proficiency training? We can provide a weekly 60 or 90-minute training session on essential English communication skills — written and spoken — for success in the international workplace, including presentations, negotiations, intercultural communication, remote collaboration and more — along with soft-skills coaching on the principles of effective communication.
Sessions can be held at your offices, at another location, or remotely — to suit your team's needs. With this training, your employees can access a valuable resource for continuous improvement.
Group and Individual Training
Presentation Coaching
We also provide video feedback so you can see your progress first-hand, and we can meet at your office, at another location, or remotely — to suit your needs. With our expert coaching, you can make your next presentation your best one yet.
Business English
Ongoing English Essentials
Sessions can be held at your offices, at another location, or remotely — to suit your team's needs. With this training, your employees can access a valuable resource for continuous improvement.
Seminars
Presentation Skills: Essentials to Excellence
Whether you're new to presenting in English or a seasoned international presenter looking to sharpen your edge, this seminar is designed for you. Through hands-on training, live presentations, video feedback and expert coaching, you'll build a complete toolkit — from core fundamentals to advanced techniques used by the world's best presenters.
By the end of these two days, you'll be ready to structure and deliver compelling presentations, connect with any audience, handle challenging situations with confidence, and truly differentiate yourself and your organization.
- Ingredients of a successful presentation
- Creating the perfect structure
- Audience analysis
- Connecting to your audience
- Effective openings and closings
- Using the right body language
- Powerful vocal techniques
- Effective Q&A mastery
- Team presenting
- Tips and tricks from the world's top presenters
Length: 2 days
Successful Networking
One key to success in international business is making connections that count — and this seminar will help you do it better in English. How can you build and sustain a productive network? How can you improve your business relationships — online and in person?
In this seminar, you’ll learn all this and more. So you can use your network to cultivate leads, identify business partners, generate referrals, build your reputation and drive the goals of your business.
- Knowing your marketplace
- Defining what you do
- Successful small talk
- Networking etiquette
- Developing your personal positioning statement
- Managing your visibility — online and off
- International networking
- Maintaining your network
Length: 1 day
Successful Meetings
Are you collaborating on a project? Assembling a team for strategic planning or creative brainstorming? Whether you’re making day-to-day business decisions or launching an initiative, your success depends in part on the effectiveness of your meetings, which are often the starting point for getting things done.
In this seminar, you’ll learn the English communication skills you need to organize, facilitate and participate in effective meetings — so you can achieve your objectives.
- Structuring efficient meetings
- Presenting effective arguments
- Agreeing and disagreeing
- Persuasion techniques
- Diplomacy
- Compromising
- International meetings
- Managing conference and video calls
Length: 2 days
Cross-Cultural Awareness
Working with international teams and clients? This seminar gives you practical tools and insights to navigate different business cultures with confidence — with special attention to the cultural contexts most relevant to your work.
By the end of this seminar, you'll have sharper cultural awareness, stronger communication and collaboration skills, and the confidence to work effectively across borders.
- Defining culture in business
- Introduction to cultural dimensions (e.g. Hofstede model)
- Verbal and non-verbal communication styles
- Active listening across cultures
- Business etiquette across cultures
- Decision-making and leadership styles
- Identifying unconscious biases and overcoming stereotypes
- Multicultural team dynamics
- Conflict resolution across cultures
Length: 1 day
Seminars
Presentation Skills: Essentials to Excellence
Whether you're new to presenting in English or a seasoned international presenter looking to sharpen your edge, this seminar is designed for you. Through hands-on training, live presentations, video feedback and expert coaching, you'll build a complete toolkit — from core fundamentals to advanced techniques used by the world's best presenters.
By the end of these two days, you'll be ready to structure and deliver compelling presentations, connect with any audience, handle challenging situations with confidence, and truly differentiate yourself and your organization.
- Ingredients of a successful presentation
- Creating the perfect structure
- Audience analysis
- Connecting to your audience
- Effective openings and closings
- Using the right body language
- Powerful vocal techniques
- Effective Q&A mastery
- Team presenting
- Tips and tricks from the world's top presenters
Length: 2 days
Cross-Cultural Awareness
Working with international teams and clients? This seminar gives you practical tools and insights to navigate different business cultures with confidence — with special attention to the cultural contexts most relevant to your work.
By the end of this seminar, you'll have sharper cultural awareness, stronger communication and collaboration skills, and the confidence to work effectively across borders.
- Defining culture in business
- Introduction to cultural dimensions (e.g. Hofstede model)
- Verbal and non-verbal communication styles
- Active listening across cultures
- Business etiquette across cultures
- Decision-making and leadership styles
- Identifying unconscious biases and overcoming stereotypes
- Multicultural team dynamics
- Conflict resolution across cultures
Length: 1 day
Successful Networking
One key to success in international business is making connections that count — and this seminar will help you do it better in English. How can you build and sustain a productive network? How can you improve your business relationships — online and in person?
In this seminar, you’ll learn all this and more. So you can use your network to cultivate leads, identify business partners, generate referrals, build your reputation and drive the goals of your business.
- Knowing your marketplace
- Defining what you do
- Successful small talk
- Networking etiquette
- Developing your personal positioning statement
- Managing your visibility — online and off
- International networking
- Maintaining your network
Length: 1 day
Successful Meetings
Are you collaborating on a project? Assembling a team for strategic planning or creative brainstorming? Whether you’re making day-to-day business decisions or launching an initiative, your success depends in part on the effectiveness of your meetings, which are often the starting point for getting things done.
In this seminar, you’ll learn the English communication skills you need to organize, facilitate and participate in effective meetings — so you can achieve your objectives.
- Structuring efficient meetings
- Presenting effective arguments
- Agreeing and disagreeing
- Persuasion techniques
- Diplomacy
- Compromising
- International meetings
- Managing conference and video calls
Length: 2 days
Seminars
Essentials to Excellence
- Ingredients of a successful presentation
- Creating the perfect structure
- Audience analysis
- Connecting to your audience
- Effective openings and closings
- Using the right body language
- Powerful vocal techniques
- Effective Q&A mastery
- Team presenting
- Tips and tricks from the world's top presenters
- Knowing your marketplace
- Defining what you do
- Successful small talk
- Networking etiquette
- Developing your personal positioning statement
- Managing your visibility — online and off
- International networking
- Maintaining your network
- Structuring efficient meetings
- Presenting effective arguments
- Agreeing and disagreeing
- Persuasion techniques
- Diplomacy
- Compromising
- International meetings
- Managing conference and video calls
By the end of this seminar, you'll have sharper cultural awareness, stronger communication and collaboration skills, and the confidence to work effectively across borders.
- Defining culture in business
- Introduction to cultural dimensions (e.g. Hofstede model)
- Verbal and non-verbal communication styles
- Active listening across cultures
- Business etiquette across cultures
- Decision-making and leadership styles
- Identifying unconscious biases and overcoming stereotypes
- Multicultural team dynamics
- Conflict resolution across cultures
About Us
At Standard Business Communication, all of our trainers are native English speakers, carefully selected for their language expertise and engaging style of training. That means your employees will not only improve their business English to the highest standard — they’ll also have fun doing it.
Standard Business Communication combines proven principles of effective communication — along with positive psychology — to help organizations improve their English communications.
Our company was founded by Andrew Szabados, who has more than 20 years of experience serving as a trusted contact and advisor for companies in continuing education, and as a trainer and coach in English business skills. Born in the United States, Andrew is fluent in English and German, and he holds a bachelor's degree in German, with honors, from the University of Houston.
Andrew Szabados
Founder
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