You’ve probably heard that multilingual workplaces are super necessary nowadays. Have you noticed that many companies ask that you know more than one language to hire you? We’re sure you have.
Languages will take your company to great places! Yes, we actually agree bilingualism is a great skill to have. In fact, we recommend you build a workplace with personnel that speak many different languages!
Because no matter the job position, there are many benefits of having a multilingual workforce. “Which ones?”, you might ask. Well, let us tell you some of them.
Reach New International Markets
We live in a highly globalized world. Everyone is connected nowadays. Even businesses and companies are connected to markets, partners and clients from other parts of the world. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t do the same.
Reaching new international markets is important to gain an advantage in today’s world. There’s so much to win. You can end up gaining new awesome clients. As well as close impressive deals that will help your business or meet the next partner to help you improve your company.
Do you know who will help you reach these foreign markets? That’s right! Your multilingual workforce!
Employees that speak more than one language will be able to:
- Help you during bilingual meetings. They can speak, give ideas, or even carry the meeting if you aren’t very fluent yet.
- Dealing with clients that aren’t very fluent in your mother tongue. It can be tough to answer all the doubts and questions that an international possible client has if they aren’t fluent in your mother tongue. But if your employees know the client’s language, they’ll be able to answer and clarify everything very well.
- They can help create goals to win the interest of the people that live in the country their second language is from. Because they know the culture there.
- This is because oftentimes, learning a second language means you’re also learning about another culture.
- Making connections with partners. You might be very interested in working with a certain business figure from another country. In that case your bilingual employees can help you make an impression by speaking their language and create a connection with them. They’ll help close the language barrier to close the deal!
Better Sales
We already said that multilingual employees will answer the questions a foreign client has with ease. But languages aren’t useful just to answer their doubts. They can help to sell your product or service better!
Your bilingual employees will be able to tell the clients everything about it. What it is about, how much it costs, its benefits, the instructions for use…
This will make your company sell better. Clients want to hear someone confident and sure about what they’re selling. If a foreign person comes and you don’t know their mother tongue and they don’t know yours, it’ll be difficult to sell. How do you explain to them the reasons why you and your product are so good?
Workforce with Great Problem-Solving Skills
Being bilingual has many benefits for your personal and professional lives. Some are very obvious, like being able to make foreign friends. Some others are less obvious, like having better problem-solving skills. Yes, that’s right! Many bilingual people have great problem-solving skills!
It’s been shown that bilingualism enhances cognitive abilities, including having better problem-solving abilities. This is because switching between languages helps your brain’s cognitive flexibility. Even children have shown better problem-solving skills.
That’s exactly what your business needs. Whether we like it or not, problems and difficulties show up every now and then. Some are harder than others. But if we have a work team that knows how to approach a problem, it’ll be less stressful. We’ll also feel safe trusting they can solve it.
Cultural Awareness
Cultural awareness is all about accepting that there are other cultures besides our own and respecting them.
If you have a multilingual workforce, they’ll get to see the similarities between each other’s cultures, as well as the differences. Therefore, they’ll develop cultural awareness.
Your employees will not only learn about other cultures, but they might even get to value them as well. So, yes, they can also develop cultural empathy and might even end up loving a new culture.
This is also a great quality to connect with international clients and business partners. They want to work with a company that clearly appreciates and respects them despite being from another country and having other perspectives.
Building Strong Bonds
Multilingual workforces will build strong bonds between them. They know that as beautiful as it is, it’s also tough to learn a new language and a new culture. They also know the challenges of working with clients and partners that speak another language.
And, especially the challenges of working in a language that’s not your first. So, employees will build a bond with each other based on the fact that they share all these experiences.
They can especially connect with those that are native speakers of their mother tongue. Because in a multilingual company, they might not speak everyone’s language. So they’ll want to hang out and ask any doubts to those they can understand.
On top of all that, they’ll bond through their love for languages.
But that’s not it! By having multilingual workforces, you can also form strong relationships with international clients and business partners. Your bilingual employees will help you do that. The clients and partners will see that you truly care about connecting with them.
As a company and business owner or boss, there’s nothing you want more than to have strong bonds among your employees. As well as with your clients and your associates. It’ll make all the difference!
Happy Customers = Better Customer Retention
We’ve talked so much about foreign clients and their importance! How your bilingual employees can help clarify their doubts. How you’ll form strong bonds with them by speaking their native language. And how you’ll sell better and more if your workers speak your clients’ mother tongues.
All of this will keep your customers happy and willing to buy in your company again. They might even recommend you to others.
So, there you go; they want to feel seen by you, and languages are one great way to do that. Keep growing your multilingual workforce, so customers keep trusting you.
Competitiveness
If you build a multilingual workforce for your company, you’ll have a huge advantage. Why? Because you’ll get all the benefits above!
Despite its importance for the current world, not all businesses have a multilingual workforce. Some have bilingual employees but just for a few job positions.
So go hire workers that speak different languages. You’ll attract more hardworking people, be a great competition for other companies and will compete against the best. That’s amazing considering the job market is very tough nowadays.
Constant Improvement for Yourself
The biggest benefit of having a bilingual workforce or working with bilingual coworkers is going to be for you! Even if you’re the founder, CEO or boss, there’s always something we can learn or improve.
Think about this way: You’ll be immersed in a multilingual environment. Hearing employees talking and discussing different topics in different languages. Thanks to that, you’ll get to:
- Learn new vocabulary of your target language by talking with employees that speak that language very well.
- You might even learn some words and phrases of another language you haven’t studied. Who knows? You might like it so much you decide to take classes.
- This will also allow you to improve your speaking and conversation skills.
- You’ll get to learn about new cultures.
All of this will make you a better boss, coworker and overall, a better person.
We Help You Build an Impressive Multilingual Workforce
Whether you’re starting your business, or you already have a well-established company, we can improve your employees’ language skills. So you achieve your dream of building a multilingual workforce.
Fluency Corp offers corporate language training with native teachers! We offer many different languages, from English to Spanish to Mandarin, and many more.
All classes are customized to your job and language needs. So everyone at the office will learn truly useful things. Are you and your employees doctors and need more medical vocabulary? Great! Do you need help with your accent? Awesome! We’ll create a plan for you!
We also care about building confidence in your fluency! So we base all lessons in the Bellieu Method, created by our founder and CEO, Micah Bellieu. It consists of encouraging you to speak in your target language using what you’ve learned.
So you practice your conversation skills, achieve language fluency and can feel sure that you’re ready to speak even during the toughest business meetings.
Invest in your and your employees’ language skills now!
Just choose between our online or onsite language classes. Then, contact us for a free consultation.
