Elements and Performance Criteria
- Be courteous to customers and colleagues.
- Identify the specific language needed in order to conduct basic communications.
- Use appropriate, very simple, commonly-used courtesy expressions with customers or colleagues including greeting and welcoming, farewelling, apologising and thanking.
- Recognise and observe any social and cultural conventions of the specific language speaker to support communication.
- Make efforts to communicate through use of gestures or use of basic vocabulary in the other person's language where language barriers exist.
- Identify and use appropriate resources and seek assistance from those with suitable language skills.
- Communicate with customers and colleagues in a language other than English to support routine workplace activities.