Courses and workshops

English courses for professionals and companies.

Preparation for the internationally recognised Cambridge University examinations.

General English and Business English courses. One-to-one and group courses. Face-to-face and online courses.

Paola Novellini has experience in delivering English training to large companies with upwards of 50 students. All training programmes are well-structured. Participants are tested and divided into groups according to ability, the material is accurately selected, the objectives are agreed on with the students and their managers. Students have the possibility to complete the internationally recognised Cambridge examinations at the end of the studies if they so choose.

Throughout her teaching experience, Paola Novellini has specialised in teaching Business English with the aim of enhancing the participants' managerial skills. Some of the topics she deals with during the courses are the following:

  • staff development and training
  • job application
  • marketing and advertising
  • business meetings and conferences
  • job description and job satisfaction
  • company growth
  • customer satisfaction and loyalty
  • negotiations
  • outsourcing and offshoring
  • production and delivery processes
  • launching a product
  • business across cultures
  • company finance and statistics.

In relation to Financial English, here are some of the topics she deals with during the courses and / or workshops:

ACCOUNTING
  • bookkeeping
  • accounting policies, standards and principles
  • depreciation and amortisation
  • the balance sheet
  • the profit and loss account
  • the cash flow statement
  • financial ratios
  • cost accounting

CORPORATE FINANCE

  • stocks and shares
  • shareholders
  • share prices
  • bonds
  • futures
  • derivatives
  • asset management
  • mergers and takeovers
 ECONOMICS AND TRADE
  • international trade
  • exchange rates
  • financing international trade
  • incoterms

Rethinking the Adaptive Leadership model through the Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire

Since Heifetz designed the adaptive leadership framework in 1994, the academic literature has benefitted from many qualitative research studies focusing on specific adaptive challenges and how the adaptive leadership framework can be practically used to face these. It seems very few have dealt with adaptive leadership through the quantitative lens and have attempted to measure adaptive leadership behaviors or tested Heifetz’s adaptive leadership six-dimensional model. In response, my PhD research aimed to measure the perception of adaptive leadership behaviors across the Italian corporate context and to investigate whether Heifetz’s adaptive leadership model can apply to the Italian culture. Findings and contribution to knowledge can be read in the thesis: Novellini, P. (2023) Rethinking the Adaptive Leadership model through the Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire, PhD thesis, University of Sunderland.

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Novellini - Hall Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire

Do you want to measure the perception of adaptive leadership within your company or team? You can use 'Novellini - Hall Adaptive Leadership Behaviour Questionnaire', a new tool in the literature of leadership. This questionnaire was designed especially to be used in the business environment with a perspective on the higher level figures in the hierarchy. However, you can use it in any type of environment and at any level by adapting the terminology to the reality you want to focus on.

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PAOLA NOVELLINI

English for Work

20063 Cernusco sul Naviglio (Milan - Italy)
Phone No. +39 327 7567601

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