Windhoek
A new academic enterprise specialising in English courses opened its doors in Windhoek recently.
The Academy of Business Communication (ABC), a locally owned private institution located in Tauben Glen Unit 5, Hochland Park offers Basic English for beginners, Advanced English for entrepreneurs and Intermediate English for professionals and office executives and assistants.
The Basic English course has a syllabus that also caters for adult education and includes a wide range of unit standards, vocabulary building, forming of short sentences, grammar, parts of speech, listening, reading, writing and speaking.
The Intermediate English course includes minute writing, report writing, speech writing, business letter writing and presentations and the Advanced English course comprises entrepreneurship coaching and mentoring to aspiring entrepreneurs.
“The value of our training programmes is on professional soft skills development and capacity building for aptitude at the workplace,” said Morgen Mwinga, the founder of the academy.
Mwinga says their programmes are designed to provide practical training and real life individual and group exercises to modern ways of doing things in the world of work. “As such, we collected different strategic disciplines in the areas of business communication and established a center where these strategic disciplines can be trained and trained over and over to bring the working class and Namibia at a point where they are free, at ease and confident to express themselves and their thoughts immaculately,” she stated.
According to Mwinga, ABC is a one of a kind private center in the country with full ongoing support provided by the experts in the field.
She said credible trainers, hired because either they owned their own businesses, are highly experienced or they previously worked in a managerial position, aim to train for competence.
“We believe that these skills are the boom in the workplace,” Mwinga enthused.
Professional writing may well be a daunting exercise than planning out implementation of an idea for many, Mwinga said, adding: “The consequence of inability to write is information lost.”
“Our courses are designed not only to make writing an easier task for the author, but also for the audience who are expected to read, understand and extract information and value from it and also to give that appreciation that writing is structured and followed through to enable the information to be well understood,” according to Mwinga.
Training sessions at the academy are five hours per week and classes comprise of at most 10 students at a time to allow room for individual attention.