Elvira Groot

Selbstständig, Director, Intercultural Business Communication
Wassenaar, Netherlands

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Tailor-made language training in Business German f
Intercultural coaching with Germany as the target
Training and coaching: Negotiations and presentati
Language consultancy and editing print media in Ge
Development of specialized teaching material
e.g. for specific industries
Cross cultural training Germany - The Netherlands

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Elvira Groot

  • Current

    Director

    Intercultural Business Communication

  • 5 months, Apr 2009 - Aug 2009

    Teacher of Business German

    Continental Gas Storage

    Teacher of German as a Foreign Language for senior managers including assignments as coach for intercultural training

  • 4 years and 9 months, Apr 1996 - Dec 2000

    Teacher of German as a Foreign Language

    Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf (Germany)

    Teacher of German as a Foreign Language for senior managers, including assignments as coach for intercultural training, and as language advisor on company publications.

  • 6 years, Jan 1995 - Dec 2000

    Academic Coordinator

    European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages

    1. Academic Coordinator of the “Lingua” research project. 2. Responsible for the development of German language tests.

  • 3 years and 4 months, Jan 1996 - Apr 1999

    Teacher of Business German

    InterKultur, Düsseldorf (Germany)

    Teacher of Business German for non-German senior managers. Clients included Citibank and Siemens

  • 2 years and 7 months, Nov 1995 - May 1998

    Author

    Ernst Klett Publishers, Stuttgart (Germany)

    Author of course books and teacher's handbooks for Business German

  • 8 months, May 1995 - Dec 1995

    Head of Department

    Esta Bildungswerk e. V., Düsseldorf (Germany)

  • 4 months, Jan 1995 - Apr 1995

    Teacher of German as a Foreign Language

    Esprit de Corps, Düsseldorf (Germany)

    Teacher of German as a Foreign Language for senior managers including assignments as coach for intercultural training

  • 2 years and 10 months, Mar 1992 - Dec 1994

    Head of English Department

    Institut für Internationale Kommunikation

    Head of Department for English, responsible for tuition of university teachers, development of both English and German language courses for academic courses and companies alike, development of summer “immersion courses” in Business German.

  • 2 years and 1 month, Feb 1990 - Feb 1992

    Teacher of Business German

    Institut für Internationale Kommunikation

    Teacher of Business German as well as German as a Foreign Language, development of Business English curriculum

  • 2 years and 10 months, Apr 1987 - Jan 1990

    Teacher of German as a Foreign Language

    Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf (Germany)

    Teacher of German as a Foreign Language for students preparing for the university language entrance examination

Ausbildung von Elvira Groot

  • 1987 - 1988

    English linguistics and literature

    University of Reading, UK

  • 1986 - 1989

    Qualification teaching German as a foreign language

    Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

  • 1982 - 1991

    English and German linguistics and literature

    Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Sprachen

  • English

    C1 (Fließend)

  • German

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

  • Dutch

    C1 (Fließend)

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