Your company needs employees with language skills to communicate with customers and co-workers at home and abroad, but for many people learning a new language seems like an impossible goal. Rosetta Stone sat down with Bruce Alan Johnson, an author and linguist who speaks seven different languages, as he shares insights into learning and speaking a new language.

The purchasing power of minorities in the US will be more than $3 trillion by 2015, and 95% of consumers in the world live outside the US. Do your employees have the language skills required to help your company profit from these growing, lucrative markets? Rosetta Stone sat down with Bruce Alan Johnson, a linguist and author of the book Carry a Chicken in Your Lap – or Whatever it Takes to Globalize Your Business, to discuss why US companies cannot afford to remain monolingual and how language skills can drive value for companies.

Forbes Insights surveyed senior executives at leading U.S. companies to learn how language abilities impact individual and organizational success. The results indicate that corporate leaders see multilingual employees and language training programs as critical ingredients to success in the global economy. Download “Reducing the Impact of Language Barriers” and learn more about the trends and requirements shaping the future of talent management strategy

Expanding sales and retaining customers in fast-growing market segments at home and abroad are critical to your company’s long-term success. Both are impossible if your employees cannot communicate effectively with customers. Diversity consultant Michael Lee looks at some of the obstacles to increasing sales and improving satisfaction with customers in multicultural domestic markets and emerging economies.

Companies typically send their most experienced and talented employees to work overseas, but very few assignments are actually successful. Why does this happen—and is there anything companies can do about it? International assignments expert and author of the book Carry A Chicken in Your Lap—Or Whatever it Takes to Globalize Your Business Bruce Alan Johnson looks at some of the main factors that influence the success or failure of international assignments.

Protecting domestic market share and expanding overseas is essential to success in the global economy. Unfortunately, 99% of US businesses focus exclusively on the domestic market and ignore 95% of all consumers in the world. At the same time, foreign competitors are growing stronger in their home markets and preparing to take market share in the United States. This short podcast shares industry insights and lessons learned from world-class companies who use enterprise language training to capitalize on globalization.

Does your company speak the language of the global economy? As your company expands internationally and its workforce and customer base become more multi-cultural, the ability to communicate effectively in different languages becomes imperative. During this 30-minute presentation, Pete Rumpel, SVP, Global Institutional Markets for Rosetta Stone, discusses global business trends and strategies for remaining competitive in the global economy.

Do your employees have the language skills required to keep your company competitive in the global marketplace? An independent consulting company surveyed nearly 500 business professionals at leading U.S. companies to learn why they invest in enterprise language learning. The key findings from this research have been summarized in "Bilingualism: The Newest Competitive Advantage for Companies."

As your workforce becomes more culturally diverse, language barriers will have an increasingly negative impact on safety, productivity, and profitability. Read "Bridging the Gap — Safety for Multicultural Workers" from Mountain States Construction to learn how leading employers are overcoming language and cultural barriers with an increasingly foreign-born workforce.

Meeting staffing demands in the Energy Industry often means compromising on talent quality, which can lead to increased work injuries and fatalities, decreased productivity and effectiveness, and higher turnover and staffing costs--all of which directly impact revenues and profitability. Learn how leading oil and gas companies use enterprise language training to empower technical staff and uncover new talent in global markets.