Business Diploma Introduction

We offer a quality professional Business Diploma program. Our business teachers are mature and TESL certified with ‘real world’ business working experiences. Students are thoroughly prepared to enter the workforce or internship program and are trained to plan, organize and edit various types of business documents, including letters, memos, e-mails and resumes.

Topics of discussion include: globalization, technology, branding, organization, money, advertising, employment, ethics, leadership, innovation, and competition. Business etiquette and mannerisms are reviewed for the North American setting so students can use these ‘soft skills’ in business and social situations and also understand and recognize the importance of proper etiquette in business entertaining, office behaviour, and dining out.

Business English

This practical part of the course offers students an opportunity to explore modern business concepts in a North American English-Speaking context. In addition to the wealth of vocabulary taught pertinent to business culture, students will be working in a skill-enhancing environment. Students will gain confidence and acquire the experience and knowledge in the following skills : how to make effective telephone calls; the process of negotiation to become a better negotiator; how to prepare for job interviews and how to organize and deliver powerful presentations. Student will finish the course thinking more wordly, more business-conscious and equipped with English skills applicable to business at large.

Business Communication

Business communication plays an important part of this course. Each student will compile a body of written work in a portfolio. Each student is also assigned to research a country of his/her choice of their choice in a comprehensive project on business in a global setting, with emphasis on business and communication without borders. The students will also give oral presentations based on their written reports.

At the beginning of every lesson newspapers are reviewed for vocabulary, global news to gain awareness of our world and any new technological development. Phrasal verbs and idioms for the workplace and everyday life will be reviewed so students become conversant with Canadian and North American business and culture.