TRIPLE E TRAINING HOLDINGS

To assist the growth and development of your company within the business community in South Africa it may be necessary for you and your employees to learn to speak and write in one or more of the 11 official languages. Communication courses can help you develop skills from basic greeting to writing and understanding the intricacies of various cultures in your community. These courses can be made specific to the language requirements in your area or outside your current location to allow for business expansion. For example, you can learn Zulu in KwaZulu Natal or Sotho in the northern parts of the country to enable your business to be successful country wide.

Apart from other African languages such as Tswana and Sotho Triple e also provides Zulu language courses at the workplace. The focus of the Zulu language courses is to provide Afrikaans and English speaking workers the conversational skills they need to communicate effectively with colleagues at the workplace. The Zulu language courses include from the very basics such as greetings and enquiring about well being as well as families to asking for directions, talking about shopping, and applying skills learned at the workplace. The Zulu language courses extend over 32 hours with assessments done of the language skills before commencing with the courses and also thereafter. Improve workplace communication with our Zulu language courses for the workplace.

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.

In the southwestern United States, where managers speak English and workers frequently speak only Spanish, managers gain workers’ trust and loyalty when they become fluent in Spanish. In Quebec, Canada, where leaders speak English and workers typically speak French, leaders gain their employees’ respect and teams become more productive when leaders learn French. In South Africa, we reasonably can expect the same result: When managers and leaders learn Zulu through Zulu classes communicating clearly and effectively with their workers, confidence and productivity dramatically will improve.

In bilingual countries, people begin to understand that workers’ native language is their language of familiarity and English represents the language of power for workers. When a leader gives up the language of power, adopting the language of familiarity, he shows respect and understanding for the workers’ condition. Confidence soars and workers feel more ownership in their work. Taking Zulu classes provides huge psychological and financial benefits for managers.

Workers speak Zulu. Managers do not speak Zulu. Problems arise. When a manager wants to implement a new procedure, how does he communicate the details if he has not taken time to learn to speak Zulu? When a manager wants to discipline an employee for violating one of the company’s rules or ignoring the safety standards, how does he communicate the importance of compliance if he does not speak Zulu? How does a leader motivate his tired workers to greater achievement if he cannot communicate with them in language they understand? How does a leader congratulate and reward his workers when he cannot make his praise understood? In the very worst case, how can a manager make certain his employees are loyal and motivated when he has not taken initiative to learn to speak Zulu? In order to build a solid, productive, motivated workforce, managers should learn to speak Zulu.

Many misunderstandings occur in the workplace and in society because of communication gaps. If the majority of your workers are Zulu speaking, then you will benefit from enrolling your managers and workers in one of our courses to learn Zulu. Their ability to understand and speak the language will first be assessed to ensure that they learn Zulu at the level they are comfortable with. We make use of visual aids and easy to learn conversation style methods to help them learn Zulu in a fun way. The normal day to day conversations such as greetings, asking for directions, indicating family and more are dealt with first. They will then also learn Zulu for the workplace ensuring that terminology required for communicating effectively with colleagues and workers will also be dealt with. Whether you want to learn or want your workers and managers to learn Zulu, the best way is through our courses targeted to your industry.

Apart from the North and South Sotho, Xhosa as well as Tswana language courses we also present basic Zulu courses to give Afrikaans and English speakers the basic conversational skills to communicate with Zulu speakers. The Zulu courses include the following:
• Greetings
• Enquiring about families, health, location, directions, and more
• Skills regarding language for shopping
• Skills to communicate in the workplace

The Zulu courses run over the course of 32 hours. A pre and post assessment will be done. The learners can proceed to ABET Level 1 Communication qualification. This will take 100 hours to complete. Improve communication skills in the workplace by enrolling your employees in one of our Zulu courses.