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Extraordinary executive coaches and extraordinary language coaches
Online business leadership resources and online cross-cultural resources

Translators, translation resources and localisation agencies
Online dictionaries and general information resources and writing services

Central London universities and Further Education colleges
Language learning worldwide and other education directories
Online language learning resources and online academic and study resources

Extraordinary executive coaches

Paul Gillespie, Partner at Good Values
Consultant, strategist and CEO mentor in Corporate Social Responsibility, NGO strategy and marketing, and Corporate-NGO bridge-building

Costa Loucopoulos, The Drama Coach, is an applied drama specialist and practitioner, using these particular techniques to assist managers in achieving participative and democratic leadership and in getting the most out of their teams.

Start Your Executive Coaching Practice
Start your own life coaching, business coaching, or executive coaching practice.

Christine Nancarrow, Therapist
Qualified and specialised professional in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and a range of other integrated practices, to treat anxieties, dysfunction, grief, phobias, depression and other disorders, with psychotherapy based in using imagery, self-instruction, and related integrated techniques to alter distorted attitudes and perceptions

Nadina Al-Jarrah, Intercultural Therapy
An intercultural approach to Psychotherapy and Counselling which recognises that belonging, identity, social background and culture are at the forefront of our experience

Online relaxation and stress management advice

Time Management - Improve time management skills and practices. Learn time management principles to get organized, increase your productivity, and make better use of your time.

Liz McKechnie
Leadership coach in creativity and innovation, personal impact and presentation skills, with a wealth of experience in designing and delivering courses in developing actors, using a range of vocal and physical techniques

Rasheed Ogunlaru, Life coach & speaker
To identify, action and achieve life, career, business or relationship goals. Clients include entrepeneurs, performers, healers, teachers and professionals

Motivational Speaker
Motivational Humorous Speaker,Motivational Speaker Humorous Speaker speaks across America! Doug Dvorak, Motivational Humorous Speaker, is ready to bring his talents to help your business. The best motivational humorous speaker with a twist.

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Extraordinary language competence coaches

Tony Corballis is the Language Coach for Leaders

Dora Lafkas, Australian-based language training consultant
Dora Lakfas MA (TESOL), Cert TEFLA, Grad Dip Ed, BA is a professional with an astonishing track record as a language coach and consultant in training. Tony and Dora collaborate on:
• solutions brainstorming and sharing best practice in curriculum development
• joint project development and collaborative publishing
• referrals and professional cooperation

Rehan Kularatne
Conversation on the history of language, culture and the arts - based in the heart of historic London

Matt Murphy is The Language Coach for Footballers.

The Eloquent Man, a successful Mandarin-English interpreter, is running an Eloquent English club.

If you feel you are an extraordinary language coach with a specialisation in a certain niche, then please contact me and let me know whether and why your link should be included here.

 

Time Management Skills

Time Management for Study: Fill out your graph

Business Balls: Time Management

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Online leadership resources

An impressive list of inspiring leadership quotations

A long list of popular leadership books

Traditional leadership

Leadership theory

Transactional & transformational 1

Transactional & transformational 2

New managers becoming leaders

Non-profit organisation leadership

Leadership coaching for non-profits

Leader success

Sports leadership models

Leadership characteristics 1

Leadership characteristics 2

Leadership characteristics 3

Leadership characteristics 4

Leadership characteristics 5

Classical models of leadership

The Association for Business Communication. This site is incredible: great information and analysis

 

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Online cross-cultural information

Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions The sometimes criticized but universally-referenced guru of cross-cultural awareness, Hofstede provides on his site useful systems for measuring and analysing cultural and country differences.

Culture applied to companies Schein is a great figure in applying anthropology and cross-cultural study to organisations. This article is particularly focussed on leadership.

The many dimensions of culture, by Triandis. Triandis is a major thinker in cross-cultural psychology.

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

China and Chinese Business Ettiquette

Cross-cultural information on Japan

Visiting Japan: essential information

Spanish cross-cultural and expatriate information Spanish cultural information for expatriates and visitors to the Costa Blanca

Conflict resolution and cross-cultural communication Educational programs: conflict resolution, restorative justice, employment skills for youth & cross cultural communication and mediation

Cross-Cultural Understanding: The American Ghost Aspects of non-verbal communication have codes or signals that have to be deciphered because they point to hidden systems of cultural belief and have ideological significance. Monica Rector focuses on non-verbal aspects of behaviour, 'transforming into words some “ghosts” of the American culture'.

Cross-culture and website communication A cross-cultural analysis of websites from high-context cultures and low-context cultures, by Elizabeth Wurtz

Race relations links

If you would like to add your webpage containing cross-cultural information to this list of links, please contact me.

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Translation services

Translators' Cafe

translatorsbase.com

Simultaneous Interpretation - ABPT provides both the interpreters, and the electronic equipment necessary to ensure effective and seamless simultaneous interpretation.

Kevin Lin Communications Ltd. Dr Kevin Lin is possibly the world's best Chinese-English interpreter, working for over a decade as the British Government's interpreter of choice on bi-lateral communications, negotiations and visits between Britain and China, at the most senior level. Tony has worked alongside Kevin in delivering conference interpreter training.

Chinese-English Translation

China-Britain Linguists is a professional organisation composed of linguists and an elite team of certified interpreters, translators, language tutors and other experts. It is run by Mr Hero C, an associate of Tony Corballis.

English to French freelance translator

Strictly Spanish Translation Services
Provides quality English to Spanish translations, proofreading, editing and website translation

Translation Service Spanish
Translation services company offering high quality Spanish translation services at an affordable price:
Spanish translation into a wide range of languages

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Regional localization agencies

elocalize.com
Arabic localization: translation, DTP, web content, help compilation and testing

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Online dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionary Online

Webster's Online Dictionary and the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary

Longman Online Dictionary

Dictionary Reference

Online thesaurus from Thesaurus.com - and it has an amazing visual word-mappper!

Wiktionary is a collaborative, free-content and multilingual dictionary.

A dictionary of British slang and colloquialisms

Humorous site about avoiding meaningless jargon

Lexchecker is the most amazing user-friendly concordancer. It organises words into phrases as actually-used.

CobuildDirect Corpus Sampler
A concordancer that can search for collocations (words that typically go together).

Corpus of Contemporary American English
By Mark Davies of Brigham Young University has made available the largest corpus of modern American English with over 400 million words. It's always growing, thus serving as an amazing record of linguistic change.

Hong Kong University VLC Web Concordancer

The History of English

International English from a British perspective

iTools Language Tools
Word finding tools and dictionaries of many types

Your.Dictionary.com
Specialist subject and language dictionaries

A directory of dictionaries applied to various fields

Etymology Dictionary
Online source of word origins

The BBC's pages on accents

Interpret Internet and mobile slang at Noslang.com

Translate British slang into American English

A comprehensive directory of bilingual & multilingual dictionaries

The best Spanish dictionary

Spanish dictionary

Authoritative Spanish Dictionary of the Real Academia Espanola

Google's amazing translator, which works across so many languages!

Translation corpus based on parallel Portuguese and English texts

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General information resources

Find Articles An amazing resource to locate articles which are often not found googling

Intute Another useful source of academic articles

Business Books Review Each year BBR summarizes and reviews only the very best business books.

Xrefer is a provider of reference services for libraries and information centres with access to dictionaries, encylopaedias and such.

Bartleby is an incredible and unlimited gateway to books online, free of charge.

Euromonitor has the most phenomenal resources in international market intelligence, on industries, countries and consumers.

OpenThesis is a free searchable thesis and dissertation database that has account features such as saved searches, alerts, and portfolios to organize documents.



Writing services

Case study writer Learn how to write a white paper. Gordon Graham is an award winning writer with 25 years in technology. He can help you build your white papers on facts, not fluff.

Tony Corballis Editing, proofreading, writing and copywriting services

Richard Woulfe is a writer and dramatist, whose plays have been produced in London on both stage and radio. He is also a theatre reviewer for uktheatre.net
See extracts, synopsis & cast list of his latest play, "The Value of Words", a fictitious account of conversations between Ben Jonson (the playwright) and Sir Robert Cecil (James I's Secretary of State).

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Central London universities

(where Tony Corballis has recently or currently teaches, coaches, trains or writes courses)

School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London

Middlesex University

Kings College London, at the University of London

London Metropolitan University

University of the Arts

Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

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London Further Education colleges

Westminster Kingsway College: located very centrally

The College of North West London: excellent and committed teachers - Tony Corballis has worked here and witnessed a dedicated and high quality provision.

The College of North East London

Southwark College: excellent language preparation for overseas medical professionals - Tony Corballis used to manage this and other departments at Southwark College.

Lewisham College

City and Islington College

Lambeth College

Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College

Recommended private colleges

International House London

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