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…

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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%…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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