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LDS helps you develop New Skills for the New Century…
If you're looking for new avenues for your professional talents, consider becoming a trainer for accent and advanced ESL. You'll find a new clientele – dedicated business professionals with accents (or 'gaps' in their English language skills) who really need the expertise you can give. They represent an eager, ever-growing market in the new century - and a new business opportunity for you.
You can find the onsite trainer course you need in the LDS Calendar
of Events.
After you review this survey of the onsite options available, go to the Web
Store for thorough course level details, rates, and unique details for
the current calendar. Contact us with any additional
details. Courses
fill, so make your decisions as early as possible. 
— For All Professional Levels
Accent
101: The Basic ABCs
Some trainers never formalize their training skills for accent beyond their initial background in ESL or Speech Pathology: frankly, it isn't mandatory. Yet, HR research claims that trial and error limits productivity for these novice trainers for at least a couple of years!
Basic Training - whether that conjures up military boot camp or the more typical professional workshops we go to -- is just that: basic. Entry level courses should give you entry-level skills to do a credible job: from there, you build your skills and polish your performance with experience. Since 1988, we’ve delivered a 2-day training that exceeds the rudimentary. The LDS Accent 101: The Basic ABCs is so comprehensive for testing, teaching and marketing that we even exceed the expectations of those who have been trained by others or have attended other training programs!
The LDS Training Center is also ready to serve the more experienced instructors:
Beyond the Basics of Accented Speech
Many of you have been working with accents for some time. In addition, your only professional training for accent may have been long in the past! Perhaps you may reach the end of your training endeavors and wish things had gone a little differently.
Your typical US corporate prospects are often represented by their HR specialists. Human Resource Departments know the value of training: they promote (even push) it in their organizations -- at all professional skill levels. They themselves routinely update their own training readiness as part of their commitment to value.
We hope you take your cue from your own clientele in the American workplace:
update your trainer skills in the field! We believe that the outside consultants
who do accent training should exude evidence that they’re current with
the latest research and development.
Every year, we design workshops for experienced trainers: to keep them current and to revitalize their teaching and marketing tactics.