Build towards a final performance
Updates, clarification, reasoning, diplomatic challenge and coordination accumulate across the course. Decision Room requires learners to retrieve and combine them.
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Working Across Teams · English for Cross-Functional Coordination
A short, in-company corporate-English course that builds towards Decision Room: a cross-functional capstone requiring learners to consult, negotiate and commit to next steps.
Six-session course architecture, with developed Session 1 and capstone materials plus selected supporting packs.
Delivery: Face-to-face, in-company workshops · 6 × 90 minutes
B1+/B2 · 6 × 90 minutes · 9 hours
An original Content Studio demonstration based on an invented commission. It contains no client-owned material and is not presented as a delivered client project.
At a glance
- Audience
- Mixed-function international teams
- Level
- B1+/B2
- Delivery
- Face-to-face, in-company
- Duration
- 6 × 90 minutes · 9 hours
- Course group
- 8–14 professionals
- Capstone
- Decision Room · Priorities, Trade-offs & Next Steps
The sample brief
Professionals can describe their own work, but coordination becomes harder when information is incomplete, constraints compete and discussion must lead to action. The sample brief calls for a practical B1+/B2 English course with systematic language development, realistic face-to-face interaction and evidence of increasing independence.
The design decisions
Give interaction a real purpose
Different groups hold different information. Learners must ask targeted questions before they can make a defensible recommendation.
Use the physical room
Rotating exchanges, specialist tables, mixed decision teams and a decision wall make movement part of the learning design.
Observe communication, not one correct answer
Evidence includes question quality, reasoning, diplomatic challenge and clear ownership. The capstone assesses language in use rather than rewarding a single business decision.
Six sessions, one learning progression
The master syllabus links workplace outcomes, language, recycling and performance evidence across all six sessions. The progression is Update → Clarify → Explain → Challenge → Coordinate → Decide.
Build the language resources
Move from concise updates to verified information and explicit constraints.
- Giving Clear Updates
- Clarifying What’s Happening
- Priorities & Constraints
Integrate and act
Compare perspectives, coordinate action and defend a decision.
- Handling Different Views
- Coordinating Actions
- Decision Room
Inside Decision Room
Decision Room places learners 12 working days before a fictional Peak Week. Three initiatives compete for one substantial release slot: a Customer Delivery Update, an Exception Handling Workflow and a Campaign Feature.
Retrieve and prepare
Reactivate course language, then examine information from Customer & Commercial, Operations, Technology or People & Implementation.
Consult across teams
Each learner consults at least two other perspectives and checks assumptions. No single group holds enough information.
Make and defend a recommendation
Mixed teams agree what to proceed with, phase or delay, explain the trade-off and record owners, timings and conditions.
Replay with new information
A new constraint tests whether learners can reopen the relevant part of the decision and communicate a precise revision.
Review and transfer
The facilitator uses observed communication evidence for feedback; learners identify a behaviour to carry into workplace meetings.
Selected learning-material previews
How the materials connect
Design, learner materials and trainer guidance support the same performance goals.
Course design
- Commission and learner profile
- Six-session syllabus
- Language progression and recycling
Learning materials
- Update and clarification tasks
- Coordination cards
- Decision Room participant materials
Delivery and evidence
- Facilitator decks
- Trainer instructions and timing
- Observation and transfer tools
The capstone retrieves what the course has developed.
Language from earlier sessions returns under greater information and interaction demands. Decision Room is the final course performance, not a separate product offer.
Designed to be usable by a trainer
- A timed 90-minute capstone running order with preparation and room setup.
- Separate specialist information sets protect the information gap.
- Decision grids connect recommendations to rationale, conditions, owners and timings.
- Observation criteria make communication performance visible without interrupting the task.
What the portfolio set contains
This portfolio set combines course-level design, developed delivery materials and production specifications. Sessions 3 and 4 are represented by specifications, not complete delivery packs. Selected page previews are shown here; the full source files are not published.
- Course design specification and six-session master syllabus
- Session 1 detailed design, content pack, facilitator deck, trainer guide and participant print set
- Session 2 detailed design and clarification pack
- Session 3 and Session 4 production specifications
- Session 5 detailed design and coordination pack
- Session 6 capstone design, trainer guide, participant decision pack, information cards, toolkit, observation sheet and facilitator deck
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