Lucia Dorr, welcome to Vision Pros Live, and
tell me about your vision. Now, what we would
like to do, we are co -founders, that's my colleague
and I, of Scriptus Publications, under which
we have an online business English course, and
we have Teaching the Teachers Business English,
a course for that as well. as teaching the International
Baccalaureate. Our vision would be to go into
all the countries and offer that as an opportunity
for people to scale up, to become better, and
to become more... They can work in other countries,
in other sectors, and they can grow personally
through that. I love it. And this is huge because
a lot of people focus, rightfully so, on learning
English. But learning English and learning the
art of speaking business English are two very,
very different realities. So you're the co -founder
of Scriptus Publications. You guys have the program
Learn Business English. And I was like, well,
that's pretty neat because we focus on teaching
people. leadership traits to help them become
great consultants and to learn how to assess
and use comprehensive analysis skills. But you
have an entire program built around helping people
understand the nature of the language itself
associated with business. Do you mind revealing
some secrets? What have you learned along the
way? What we've done is looked at issues like
ethics. from a western perspective from um things
like negotiation skills improving your negotiation
your marketing skills and the language what sort
of language you would use in a corporate environment
and if you want to fundraise as somebody who's
perhaps potentially an entrepreneur now there
we ask people to do business tasks as well in
english as well so you have to have a certain
level of basic english to go up to understand
so our job is not teaching people the basics
of english it's teaching people to understand
the use of english in certain environments to
make it yeah so that's what we uh that's what
we aim to do We have, as I say, we've got a number
of courses to do that. And my background, I'm
a financial journalist as well. And I have taught
too. But I'd be interested in also, and some
people have expressed interest in having lower
level journalism skills. For example, I would
write the difference between social media and
journalism. What is the difference? And the difference
really is in sourcing. Do you believe what you
read on social media? Or, you know, why you should
believe proper sources? That, you know, like
some of the, like the BBC, for example, or some
of the newspapers like the Guardian, and the
Financial Times, because of the way it is sourced.
I think is a big opportunity for a debate on
that, on when you should and when you shouldn't,
you know, because there's there's all sorts of
opportunity to exist there. But I think that's
the key to what you're talking about, providing
that course, right, is the ability to look at
and decipher what is what is relevant and the
value within context. and what may not be so
there's a lot to explore regarding that today
to stay focused a little bit more on on what
you're actually doing for those with learn english
uh you know learn business english and your initiatives
what can uh what can these individuals that go
into these corporate or marketing programs or
negotiation skills um classes what can they expect
to get out of that what are they hoping to get
what are you hoping to see them achieve Well,
I hope that they have better career prospects
as a result of learning business English, of
being able to work in a business environment
and you learn the language. It helps with networking.
It helps with negotiation, with everything. Learning
the language of business just helps you in your
career and you can show people that. I think
it's huge, especially in relation to negotiations.
I'm glad you've hit on that twice because while
it may seem small to our average listener, negotiating
a contract of $4 an hour to $6 an hour, that's
a big difference economically for the majority
of the world. It's a very big difference. and
people can learn whether it's at a smaller level
or at a higher level they still have to the same
skills come into play being able to put forth
what you want to achieve and what the other side
wants to achieve and come to a compromise that's
really neat I'm going to ask one final question
today and then I'd be happy to extend our interview
for another time. I'm grateful to, by the way,
Lucia is calling in all the way from New Zealand
and I'm coming in from Ecuador right now. I'm
a bit cold. I don't have my ring light today.
So things look a little bit darker than normal,
but, you know, and it's a little bit later for
me, but we wanted, I understand the value. But
this particular episode serves for people to
find out about the resources where they can learn
how to improve their lives. That's really what
the show is all about. So visionaries, those
of you listening in, remember that when you're
trying to find virtual assistants and people
to work with, it's also a really good idea to
reach out to people like Lucia and say, hey,
who do you have in your deck, in your lineup
that might be interested in working? Because
we tend to be connected to lots of people who
we can't employ everybody. um you know we just
can't i can't provide a job to every single virtual
assistant that comes through our training programs
and no i don't think lucia probably can either
but you guys can tap in our network and use us
kind of like a recruiting agency that exists
for helping you so there's so many ways so my
question for you lucia is why do you personally
care about this market why do you do this oh
i care about it because well i mean basically
i taught some english in vietnam um and i believe
that there are many people who want to step up
in the world and learning english isn't enough
for them the basic they want to go further than
that and i learned that there so and i believe
i have the skills and knowledge to do that i
for my sins i also lived in the middle east a
long time so I'm aware of how everybody wants
to scale up and how some people, and the reason
it's online is that in some countries, women
are not allowed to go out and work, and it gives
them an opportunity to learn and upgrade skills
without upsetting the rest of the family. I love
that. I love that you mention it. I got chills
and shivers. thinking through that reality and
how i'm just i am so blessed not to have that
challenge in my life and there are so many who
do and we can do so much for them and i think
that the west needs to understand why they have
the challenges it isn't as simple as what people
wear or do it's not as simple as that there's
a there's a whole and it's not religious it's
a whole culture around all these things I'm glad
you brought it up, and I'm glad you're helping
with the process. So those of you who are interested
in finding out more, of course, you can find
Lucy Adore online, just like all of us. We'll
put some information out about her programs,
as well as her relationship continues to develop.
And at the same time, if you would like to come
share your vision on Vision Pros Live, in the
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be our guest. Come be our guest. You don't have
to have 6 ,000 students already in India. You
don't have to have a global program blessing
people's lives that can't find education through
other means. There's a lot of different types
of visions that are out there and we want to
explore and help you establish the visions that
are going to help this world move forward. And
Lucia, thank you for being a great, shining example
of that. I look forward to meeting Valentin very
soon as well. We'll go from there. I'm going
to give you the final word, though. Any final
thought of wisdom you want to share with our
audience? I just think you have to have a vision
and you have to try and achieve that, whatever
it is, and helping others maybe pass with that
vision. I love it. We'll see you guys on the
next show. Take care, everybody. Bye -bye. Thank
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