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Soft Skills Workshops with External Trainers: Getting Them Right
54-70Views:34Soft skills development workshops can serve multinational organizations towards the
improvement of internal communication between employees of various language backgrounds
attempting to collaborate on tasks and issues in performing their daily activities. Employer and
management expectations of these workshops may not be consistent with those of employees
and this gap can lead to employee pushback and even refusal to internalise and utilise the
envisioned workshop key learning points that management wants them to develop. On the bases
of years of professional experience as co-trainers holding soft skills development workshops and
receiving employer and employee feedback on their work at dozens of multinational companies
in Europe, the authors discuss critical milestones which must be met by management, in order to
lay the groundwork for more successful soft skills workshops at their organisations. -
Maintenance of minority languages and economic viability of minorities in the mirror of the Transcarpathian linguistic landscape
119-141Views:27The study examines the linguistic landscape of the territories of Transcarpathia (Ukraine) which
are mostly inhabited by Hungarians in the context of language and economy. It will be presented
how economically prestigious world languages, English and Russian are displayed in this region.
We show that economic realities suppress the nationalism of the minority int he linguistic landscape.
We note that the language policy in support of the language maintenance of the national
minority can not be successful if it is not related to the development of the economy. If we want to
improve the economic situation of the Hungarians of Transcarpathia in a multilingual environment,
the teaching of languages is one of the areas where it is necessary to invest.