Networking…

“I was completely lost at the conference in Dakar!” Kwame exclaimed.

“Everyone around was conversing in French. I couldn’t hang around with Dan, the only one on our team who spoke fluent French, because he was waltzing around the hall exchanging pleasantries with all the other delegates!” He began to reminisce with regret on those days in secondary school when he was always found chatting at the back of the class during French lessons.

Kwame had just been promoted to head of sales (West Africa) at his company and this would require quite a bit of travelling between Accra, Lagos, Cote d’ivoire and Dakar. He watched as Dan chatted gleefully at all the contacts; he had made from day 1 networking session. He wasn’t amused. He thought, “How am I going to get through the next two days”?“Asem eee,,, I must learn French!” He began browsing the internet for LINGUATOPIA.He recalled how he had seen a flier on Linkedin a few weeks back.

Networking is a skill that is enhanced by the ability to speak another language. It aids expansion in business and interconnectivity across borders in the long term. Research has already shown that employees who are bilingual or multilingual help to bring more opportunities in trade to global businesses.

Speaking another language helps you communicate with the locals, especially if you are in the agricultural space. Certain languages give you the opportunity to expand to more countries than others. For example, Spanish can open expansion opportunities to at least 20 countries worldwide.

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