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Back to Dutch Fluency for TeamsFor HR teams in logistics, retail, FMCG, and industrial operations

Dutch on the warehouse floor
, not just in the boardroom.

Safety briefings. Shift handovers. Supplier conversations. Team-lead trust. Operational Dutch is the integration most international workforce programmes quietly give up on. We designed a tier for it.

Logistics, retail, and FMCG profiles our learners work with

Bol.com logo
PostNL logo
Aldi logo
Cargill logo
Nike logo
Adidas logo
Where operational Dutch actually matters

Your warehouse runs on Dutch. Your international staff don't.

Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, and Spanish-speaking operational staff keep Dutch logistics, retail, and food-production running. Their integration is the programme most employers budget for and quietly fail on.

01

Safety and SOP literacy

Safety briefings. Incident reporting. VCA procedures. The Dutch your operational team must understand without ambiguity. English translation on the fly is where accidents start.

02

Team-lead and shift-handover trust

The team lead speaks Dutch. The shift handover happens in Dutch. Your international staff either participate or quietly become a parallel team that their Dutch-speaking colleagues route around.

03

Supplier and partner conversations

Dutch suppliers, Dutch partners, Dutch customers. Sales, procurement, and operations staff who can't hold a professional Dutch conversation are structurally capped at certain roles.

Sector-flavoured programme

Operational Dutch, not generic business Dutch.

Every logistics, retail, and FMCG programme we run is customized to the company. Your dashboard is styled in your brand. Your content library is flavoured for your floor: safety language, shift rituals, supplier Dutch, and the specific tone your team-leads actually use.

Safety and SOP vocabulary

VCA, ARBO, incident-reporting Dutch, safety-briefing scripts. The Dutch your operational staff must understand without ambiguity. Practised through daily audio until it's automatic.

Shift-handover and team-lead Dutch

How Dutch team-leads actually run a handover. The verbs, the pacing, the register. Your international operators learn to both follow and eventually deliver a handover in Dutch.

Supplier, customer, and floor-sales register

The difference between Dutch for a colleague and Dutch for a supplier on the phone. Retail customer Dutch, logistics-partner Dutch, the polite bridge into a negotiation.

Branded HR dashboard

Your logo, your colours, your shifts and DCs as cohorts. Your Head of HR opens it and sees a programme wired into how your operation is actually structured.

Every company programme is fully bespoke. Your HR dashboard is styled to your brand. The content library is curated for your sector and your internal jargon. The coaching reflects your actual workplace register. We do not run you through a template.

Illustrative cohort outcome

A Dutch logistics cooperative with ~40 Polish and Romanian operational staff

Shift-based workforce across two regional DCs. A1 at intake, A2 target in six months, B1 target for team-lead-track staff by month twelve. Daily audio designed for phone-on-shelf consumption during shift starts.

38

Cohort size

32 / 38

A1 to A2 in 6 months

84%

Weekly attendance

+7

Promotion-ready staff

Illustrative composite based on typical cohort outcomes across our corporate programmes. Real numbers from your specific programme are reported quarterly in your own HR dashboard. We will share a live sample report during the discovery call.

Logistics, Retail & FMCG

Give your operational team the Dutch they keep asking for.

Scope a pilot against your actual team in 15 minutes. We will show you the sector-specific dashboard, share a sample report, and quote you a fixed pilot price before you hang up.