Custom corporate training programs

How a programme is built

Every engagement follows the same three steps.

• Scoping. What should people be able to do at the end, by when, and what is currently in the way. This conversation decides the programme; everything else follows from it.
• Positioning. Each participant is assessed individually, so nobody spends time on what they already master. Groups are then formed by level rather than by department.
• Delivery and measurement. Sessions alternate input and practice on your own material, with a checkpoint partway through to adjust while there is still time to adjust.

What we cover

Three areas, all delivered the same way.

• Business English — meetings, negotiation, written correspondence, sector-specific vocabulary. Levels A2 to C1 on the Common European Framework.
• Generative AI — practical use in daily work, with the judgement to check what the tools produce. See the AI programme.
• Professional communication — presenting, arguing a position, handling a difficult conversation.

Formats, and why the format matters

Format decides completion more often than content does. A programme that does not fit people's calendars gets abandoned in week three, whatever its quality.

So we start there: on-site sessions at your premises, fully remote for distributed teams, blended for multi-site organisations, or a compressed two-to-three-day intensive when there is a fixed deadline. Group sizes of 4 to 12 for in-person work; individual coaching for executives or highly specific needs.

The method

Our approach comes from e-dutainment, the learning method developed by Corentin and Clotaire Marmignon: people retain what interests them. Rather than textbook dialogues and abstract exercises, sessions use real situations — the meeting your team actually has to run, the report they actually have to write.

Trainers are practitioners who have worked in international environments themselves. That is a deliberate choice: someone who has negotiated in a second language teaches it differently from someone who has only studied it.

Working with us from outside France

We deliver on site across France and Europe, and remotely anywhere. Programmes are run in English, French or Spanish depending on your teams.

Marmignon Brothers is Qualiopi-certified — the French national quality standard for training providers, which requires a full audit of our processes every three years. For buyers outside France, the practical meaning is straightforward: our processes, trainer selection and evaluation methods are externally audited rather than self-declared.

Our work has been covered by Europe 1, Forbes France, M6 and RTL2. More than 50,000 learners have gone through our programmes over the past decade.

Next step

Tell us what your teams need to be able to do that they cannot do today. Start a conversation — we will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.

What this looks like in practice

A concrete example of the shape a programme takes. An industrial company with an export division needs its sales engineers to handle technical negotiations in English. The catalogue answer is "business English, level B2". Ours starts differently.

Scoping establishes that the real difficulty is narrow: they read technical documents comfortably, but lose ground in live discussion when a client challenges a specification. That is not a vocabulary problem, it is a fluency-under-pressure problem, and it changes the entire design. Sessions become simulated negotiations on their own product range, recorded and reviewed, rather than grammar progression.

Same nominal subject, different programme, different result.

Measuring what changed

We set the measure before the programme starts, and we prefer observable ones: can they now run the weekly call with the German subsidiary without preparing a script? Is the proposal turnaround shorter? Did the number of escalations to a bilingual colleague drop?

A positioning test at the start and end gives a level reference on the Common European Framework. It is useful, but it is not the point — the point is what people can do at work on the Monday after.

Common questions

Can you train teams at several sites at once?

Yes. Multi-site organisations usually take the blended format: shared self-paced modules for the fundamentals, live sessions per site or per level group.

What if participants have very different levels?

They are split into level-homogeneous groups after the positioning test. Mixing a near-beginner with an advanced speaker guarantees that both waste their time.

Do you deliver outside France?

Yes — remotely anywhere, and on site across Europe. Programmes run in English, French or Spanish.

How long is a typical programme?

From 14 hours for a focused intensive to 70 hours for a long blended track. The scoping conversation determines it; we do not sell volume in advance of knowing the objective.

What accreditation do you hold?

Qualiopi, the French national quality certification for training providers, which involves a full external audit of our processes.