For managers and client-facing professionals
Business English with Edunest trains managers and client-facing professionals in Qatar to negotiate, report, write proposals and handle clients in English, live and online. Each lesson is a one-to-one video session with your own tutor, built from your real work: the proposal due on Sunday, the quarterly report, the client call that went badly.
Many professionals in Qatar already use English all day at work. What they want now is English that persuades: offers that hold their ground, reports that open with the answer, and a tone that keeps a client close.
What we cover
Qatar's workforce is overwhelmingly international: non-Qatari workers made up 94.3% of it in 2024. English is often the one language everyone at a negotiating table shares, and these are the tasks it has to carry.
Opening positions, conditional offers, trading concessions and closing with a clear summary of what was agreed. Learners often concede too early, or sound harsher than they intend when they have to refuse.
Conditional offers · Trading concessions · Holding a position politely · Confirming the deal in writing
Opening warmly, setting an agenda, checking understanding and closing with agreed next steps. Lag, accents and the missing body language of a video call let small misunderstandings pass unnoticed until the invoice stage.
Signposting a call · Checking questions · Summarising next steps
Executive summary, scope, approach, timeline and assumptions, written from the client's problem outward. The usual weakness is a catalogue of services where the reader was looking for their own need, named and answered.
Executive summaries · Scope and assumptions · Benefit-led wording
Findings, analysis and recommendations set out in the order a busy manager reads them. Writers tend to follow the order in which they did the work, so the recommendation surfaces on page six.
Answer-first structure · Objective, hedged language · Recommendations with owners and dates
Describing results, charts and budgets aloud and on paper: rose by, fell to, levelled off, a margin of. Prepositions with numbers, and percentages set against percentage points, cause most of the slips.
Describing charts · Prepositions with figures · Forecasting language
Explaining a delay, answering a complaint, declining a request and chasing a late payment while the relationship stays intact. The trap is swinging between blunt refusals and apologies so long they bury the point.
Delivering bad news · Answering complaints · Chasing payment courteously
Judging how formal to be with a senior client, a supplier or a colleague, and how directly to disagree. Politeness habits carried over from a first language can read as cold, or as vague, in English.
Levels of formality · Softening and hedging · Disagreeing with respect
A plan usually starts with the area tied to your next deadline at work, then widens as each skill becomes second nature.
How lessons run
The course follows your working calendar. A tutor first looks at how you use English at work today, then plans around the meetings and documents coming up next.
In the opening lesson you talk through your role, your clients and the English your week demands. Bring an email, a report extract or notes from a recent negotiation, with client names and figures taken out.
The tutor sets out priorities in plain terms: perhaps a pitch in three weeks, a board report at quarter end and weekly supplier calls. Lessons are ordered so the most urgent task is rehearsed first.
For negotiations and client calls the tutor plays the other side and pushes a little harder each round. You pause, try a stronger phrase and run the exchange again until the reply comes without hunting for words.
For reports and proposals you bring a draft, and the two of you rework it live: restructuring sections, tightening sentences and choosing words that sound decided. You revise it afterwards and bring the new version back.
A weekday evening after office hours suits short, focused practice, while a Friday or Saturday slot leaves room for a full rehearsal before a big Sunday meeting. Times are agreed in Qatar time, and Ramadan timings follow each year's official announcement.
Lessons run on Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, so you can rehearse on the very platform your clients use.
What we look for in a tutor
A person reads your enquiry, and your tutor is chosen for your level and goals.
Precise English for negotiation, finance, contracts and client service, and a working grasp of how organisations reach decisions.
Can place your English on the CEFR scale and knows how proposals, reports and formal letters are expected to be built.
Has taught professionals before, and plans lessons around a crowded calendar, real documents and goals the learner sets.
Shows why one phrase sounds confident and another sounds unsure, with examples ready to reuse in your next meeting.
Tells you plainly what has improved and what still needs work, and reviews the plan with you whenever your goals shift.
Common difficulties
Problems that come up again and again in business English.
Why it happens
Disagreeing in real time needs ready-made phrases, and searching for words under pressure makes every pause feel endless.
How a tutor helps
The tutor drills a small set of moves (interrupting politely, holding a position, making a conditional offer) and then rehearses them in role-plays that grow steadily tougher.
Why it happens
Politeness habits from another language rarely transfer directly, so writers either over-soften or cut every courtesy.
How a tutor helps
You see one message written three ways, from very formal to friendly, then rework your own real emails until the tone fits the reader and the purpose.
Why it happens
Reports often follow the order in which the work was done, which hides the finding a reader needs most.
How a tutor helps
The tutor teaches an answer-first structure: the recommendation at the top, the evidence beneath it, and each heading written as a point that stands on its own.
Why it happens
Prepositions with figures, large numbers and the gap between percent and percentage points are easy to mix up aloud.
How a tutor helps
Drills built on charts from your own sector, then a timed two-minute results summary that the tutor corrects phrase by phrase until it flows.
Why it happens
Without the language of conditions and trade-offs, the only moves left seem to be yes or no.
How a tutor helps
Lessons build the if-then pattern of bargaining ("If you can confirm by Thursday, we can hold this price"), so every concession asks for something in return.
Why it happens
Video strips away much of the body language that tells a speaker whether a point has landed.
How a tutor helps
The tutor practises signposting, checking questions and a closing summary of who does what by when, so agreement is said aloud and confirmed in writing afterwards.
Questions learners ask
Describe your role, your level and the meeting or document coming up. A member of our team reads it and replies to match you with a tutor.