Business English Case Study: Parmalat
In this week’s article, we will be taking a look at one of the biggest brands from an International perspective and discussing a recent case study that is of great interest to most and especially accountants. The case study involves the well-known Italian food and beverage company, Parmalat, and highlights some of the challenges that…
Continua a leggere...Key tips to improving your Business English
As we have seen before, at an organizational level, knowing and understanding Business English has become vitally important these days. Whether communicating with upper-level management or pitching ideas to your clients. Business English is playing an important role in the most effective communication. However, many people in the early stage of their career lack this…
Continua a leggere...How to practice Mindfulness in the workplace
Do you ever feel like you are missing important details in a meeting because your mind was somewhere else? Have you ever finished your lunch at your computer and not even realised how it tasted? If these situations seem familiar, you are not on your own. Recent research shows that most of us, almost 50%…
Continua a leggere...How to delegate effectively
When you lead a team, you take on new responsibilities and challenges and team leaders have to learn to delegate as much as possible. This can mean sharing and moving your responsibilities on to others, trusting them to do some of the work that is normally yours. Delegating effectively allows you the time and space…
Continua a leggere...Managing Conflict in the work environment
Understanding how to manage and deal with conflict is an important professional skill. Conflict in the workplace can have a strong effect on the well-being and motivation of staff and cause unnecessary distractions and stress. Managers or staff with conflict management skills are able to resolve disagreements quickly and efficiently, therefore enabling effective teamwork and…
Continua a leggere...Job interview in English? Are you ready?
How to have a successful interview in English It can be said that your actual credentials and CV can often be outweighed by the impression you make with your interview. Your attitude, simple social skills, behaviour, and ability to communicate are heavily considered as well as your education and experience. You should engage in an…
Continua a leggere...Agile working, what exactly does that mean?
What does Agile mean? We often hear about Agile working or an Agile structure, however, not all of us are completely aware of what exactly this means. We live in an ever-changing world and that change is happening rapidly. There are many factors for this, whether driven by globalisation, technology, or in response to specific…
Continua a leggere...Common Phrasal Verbs in Business that are used every day
As we investigated in our last article, English has a wonderful habit of making itself very confusing in everyday language. We have taken a look at the Idiomatic Expressions used in business and now we turn to the even more difficult-to-define, Phrasal Verbs. With these verb compositions, you can’t, unfortunately, translate literally every part and…
Continua a leggere...Common business idioms that are used every day
As you are no doubt aware, there are two languages when we talk about English, the English you learnt at school with its grammar and perfections and then that which is actually used every day with slang and idiomatic phrases which can have some particularly strange differences. This difference becomes even further intensified when we…
Continua a leggere...How to write the perfect English E-mail – Part 2
Welcome back to Business English! No doubt you are eager to hear more about how to finish writing that perfect email and you have several of them sitting, waiting in your drafts folder just patiently expecting this second installment of the article! I don’t want to keep you waiting so let’s continue exploring how to…
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