Bilingual Training and its Significance in Corporate Inclusion
Corporate training is an essential part of developing key expertise and competences in our employees and in any business. As we learn more about the importance of inclusivity and diversity, how can we incorporate these important ideas of inclusivity at work into our corporate training plans, actions and company culture? One of the main challenges of embracing inclusivity in training is cultural barriers, and language can be one of these key barriers. Employees from different cultures and backgrounds may better comprehend and absorb training content in their mother tongue, but it can become tricky and expensive for businesses to run stand alone training programs in different languages to cater to everyone. Businesses then have to hire different trainers that speak fluent languages and understand different cultures well. The language barrier in training may create several issues and these are some of them for your consideration: 1. Discrepancy in content understanding – Separate ...