TRIPLE E TRAINING HOLDINGS

When you think about learning African languages, you may already feel it not possible because of previous experiences at school. Triple e however, makes learning African languages easy not only for you, but all your employees as well. To ensure that English or Afrikaans speaking employees can understand and communicate with their colleagues speaking Zulu, Tswana, Xhosa or Sotho, we have developed ABET courses that promote fast learning at your workplace. Better communication amongst the various groups at your work especially at factories, processing plants, and mines is essential for workplace harmony. Help your to become skilled in other languages by enrolling them in courses which make learning African languages easy.

Even if you are not in a management position, but a small business owner or an employee you will benefit from learning to speak an African language. The first benefit of learning to speak an African language is that you will be able to communicate with a larger segment of the population and with your co-workers and employees. Communication breaks down barriers and builds respect for each other. The second benefit is that you will open career doors and thus invest in your future. For the employer it is important that the non-native African language speakers will be able to work well with all groups in the company. By enrolling employees in a course such as Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa or Sotho open communication in the company can follow, creating a positive work environment.

Once the manager or supervisor understands the language of the workers and is able to effectively communicate in their language, fewer mistakes and misunderstanding follow. Triple e also provides African language courses to help managers communicate in Zulu, Tswana, Sotho, and Xhosa. A Xhosa manager for instance, will have difficulty to build trust, establish good report with and motivate workers if the manager cannot speak their language. The same applies to a Tswana, English, Sotho, Afrikaans, or Zulu manager. As such you can now bridge the communication gap that exists in the workplace by enrolling the managers in short and effective African language courses through Triple e at your specific workplace.

One of the things that frustrate a manager is the communication problems with the workplace. Even if we all agree that English ought to remain the South African language of business and professional conversation; nonetheless, the facts of everyday life say that managers must learn Xhosa. Workers understand the authority vested in a manager’s title, but they will respect and willingly follow the leader who takes initiative to communicate with his workers in Xhosa.

The leader who develops proficiency in Xhosa proves to his workers that he joins them in common grounds. Investing time and effort in learning Xhosa, a leader proves his respect for his workers’ culture even as he initiates them into his own. In addition, learning Xhosa makes the manager and his team more efficient because they understand his instructions and expectations.