The Centre for Professional and Business English (CPBE) has been providing workplace English training for Hong Kong organizations since 1991 and has seen many changes in the training environment. For one thing, training managers have higher expectations of their training provider and the learning outcomes.

Gone are the days when a company would insist on training directors with secretaries and clerks, attempting to cover a range of writing and speaking skills in one 20-hour course!

In today's sophisticated training environment, corporations are increasingly separating training for support staff from that for professionals and executives, selecting different services and even different providers for different target groups.

CPBE has become the pre-eminent provider of blended, individualized writing programmes for international law firms and financial institutions as well. When professionals are able to study around their work commitments, using fully authentic workplace tasks and receiving personalized feedback, the progress is obvious, no time is wasted, and employer and employee experience solid return on investment.

CPBE's wealth of expertise also means that they are able to provide a one-stop service catering for all levels of employees. A recent trend has been the interest in training from the shipping and logistics industry. Shipping companies prefer to use one provider in order to build relationship and industry knowledge. Our trainers and course designers will then put together separate programmes for frontline and supervisory and managerial staff.

Despite the demand on employee time, organizations recognize the value of job-specific English training, and are able to make good use of funding sources, such as the Workplace English Campaign.

專業及商業英語中心 (CPBE) 自1991年起，一直為本港機構提供職業英語培訓，同時經歷了多種培訓環境的轉變。例如公司培訓經理對培訓課程提供者以至課程的教學成果，均有較高要求。時至今日，企業已不再規定主管與文職人員參加同一培訓課程，也不期望短短二十小時的課程能讓僱員全面掌握英語寫作與會話技巧。

在今天錯綜複雜的培訓環境中，企業已漸將支援人員的英語培訓課程與專業及行政人員的培訓課程分家，物色不同培訓服務與培訓服務提供者，以配合不同層面僱員組別的學習需要。

對本地國際律師行及金融機構而言，CPBE已成為綜合個人化英語寫作課程的主要提供者。如能在僱員兼顧職務的情況下，提供有關實際職務及有專人作出的英語培訓，定能使企業與僱員同時從培訓中得益。

CPBE具備豐富經驗培訓各級員工，並可為企業提供一站式培訓服務。近年本地航運與物流業對英語培訓需求日增，而航運企業一般寧選同一培訓機構提供服務，以培養長遠關係與行業知識。本中心導師與課程設計者能為企業員工與主管及經理設計符合各種需要的英語課程。

雖然員工訓練需時，但一般企業體會到職業英語培訓的價值，因此已能妥善利用如「職業英語運動」等計畫，為進修員工提供資助。