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ASTEX25 years of training excellence

Founded in 1986, ASTEX represents excellence in language training and is positioned as a

consolidated leader in the sector, offering a personalised service for its clients.

In ASTEX, we have been working each day for 25 years, to bring our students to the best language

education in Spain.

Now ASTEX means business. In 2011 we are launching twelve business skills courses. These are

not English courses about business but rather business courses in English; specifically designed to

be immediately useful.. They aim to maximise trainee benefits and Human Resource budgets by

bringing together the very latest in corporate training and the language of world business.

Many of our courses are available different formats: one day, two day and five day courses. Let us

know your needs and we will tell you how ASTEX can satisfy them.

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Leadership Skills1

Time Management2

Effective Negotiations3

Introduction to NLP4

Modern Business Concepts5

Contemporary Presentations Technique6

Managing Teams7

Media Relations8

Cultural Difference in Business9

Public Speaking10

Six Sigma11

Know How12

Business Courses

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1 Leadership Skills“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

Many leadership theories do not get past the

Business School campus gates. Trainees on

this course are given ample real world

scenarios in which to test and adapt the ideas

learned.

Peter F. Drucker

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2 Time Management“Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”

This course looks at the problems and

opportunities of time management in a 24/7

working environment. Participants will learn

how to evaluate and harness time as the

valuable resource it is.

Winston Churchill.

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3 Effective Negotiations“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

Based on the Harvard ‘Getting to Yes’ and

‘Getting Past No’ publications, this course

shows trainees how to:

• Avoid zero sum negotiations,

• Identify a BATNA

• Negotiate with an eye on the future.

This course has a highly practical element that

will enhance trainees’ negotiating skills.

John F Kennedy.

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4 Introduction to NLP“If you do what you‟ve always done, you‟ll get what you‟ve always got.”

NLP is the practice of understanding how

people organise their

thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to

produce the results they do. NLP provides

people with a methodology to model

outstanding performances achieved by

geniuses and leaders in their field.

This course introduces how NLP can

massively impact on individual and group

performance in a business setting.

Albert Einstein

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5 Modern Business Concepts“From „Adhocracy‟ to „Web 2.0‟, management has never quite decided whether it‟s an art

or a science.”

This course introduces and explains modern

business concepts such as

• Blue Ocean Strategy

• Pareto’s Principle

• Globalization

• Web 2.0

• The Tipping Point

• The 5 Forces of Competition

• BPR

Edward Russell-Walling

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6 Contemporary Presentations Technique“It‟s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

90% of presentations are boring. Actually it’s

closer to 99%. After this course no trainee will

have to deal with comatose audiences.

Trainees learn about Presentation Zen, Bullet

Point Abstinence and the three elements of a

good, professional presentation.

The course ends with all students giving

Pecha Kucha style presentation about an

inspiring topic.

Dizzy Gillespie

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7 Managing Teams“Talent wins games but teamwork wins championships.”

Going beyond lego and papier mache

bridges, this course looks at the elements that

make your team tick and converts trainees

into teamwork mechanics.

Michael Jordan

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8 Media Relations“For a politician to complain about the press is like a captain complaining about the

sea.”

This course will look at the modern media

landscape and see how a professional can

navigate the demanding environment:

Press Releases

Newspaper interviews

TV interviews

Radio interviews

Social Media

Spinning

Enoch Powell

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9 Cultural Differences in Business“Everything was ok when I realised other people were simply different ; not defective

versions of me.”

This course looks at the difference cultural

perspectives that can impact your business:

• High and low context societies

• Individualist versus collectivist

perceptions

• Cultural Iceberg: Deep Culture

• Monochronic versus polychronic outlooks

Andrew Clarke

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10 Public Speaking“The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're

talking about.”

Public speaking is one of the most stressful

situations for many people; especially when it

has to be done in a workplace context. We

can help your trainee

• Overcome nerves

• Look and feel confident

• Build rapport

• Use the voice to effect

• Add impact and interest.

Anon.

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11 Six Sigma“If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.”

Six Sigma seeks to eliminate imperfections in

business processes. Trainees will become

familiar with

• 5 Whys

• Analysis of variance

• Axiomatic design

• Business Process Mapping

• The DMADV approach

Kurt Lewin

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12 Know How““We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Boot camp for bilingual business. This course

examines all common business activities and

shows how to accomplish them with

excellence in English. Trainees learn how to:

How to discuss problems

How to discuss resources

How to be assertive

How to motivate someone

How to be an intermediary

How to report back on trip

&c

Aristotle

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ASTEX25 years of training excellence

Contact : David Warner

David Warner:

dwarner@astex.es

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