Why Standard "After-Work Classroom Training" in companies, often Fails.

ATTENDANCE CHALLENGES In many corporate English training scenarios, we found a rapid decrease in class numbers after the first 2 or 3 lessons. Classes were usually scheduled after work, delaying the long commute home, work duties took priority, individual benefits were hard to see.

EFFICIENCY CHALLENGES

The original proposal would have calculated a cost per student based on full attendance, so classes were often inefficient. Time taken to arrive, greet, 'settle down' and begin learning all reduced the overall lesson time to less than an hour..

LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS CHALLENGES - INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION With 10 or 15 students, the time each student had individual attention could only be a maximum for 3 or 4 minutes.

LEVELS

Slower students could not request repeat lessons or practice. Faster students could not move ahead at the pace they wanted to.

IMPORTANCE OF SUCCESS

Too often English classes were seen as a "nice-to-have" employee benefit. Such courses generally failed to have a major impact in terms of raising skill levels.