My English Office

If you don't have the opportunity to present in English on a regular basis the thought of speaking in front of an audience may seem overwhelming. In this podcast you will hear some presentation tips and ideas that may help you to improve your public speaking skills and also involve others in your office.

Every company has rules that help their business run

smoothly. Some companies create formal workplace

policy documents and others have informal guidelines

for employees. In this podcast, Claire and Andy discuss common workplace policies and the ways they are communicated to employees.

When companies want to buy a product or service they

may request quotes, proposals or tenders from a group

of suppliers. In this podcast, Claire and Andy discuss

the differences between these processes as well as

the interesting idioms that English speakers use when discussing proposals and quotes.

Do you travel regularly to English-speaking countries for business meetings? Or maybe you want to move to the

UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the US? In this podcast, Claire and Andy talk about the business culture norms in English-speaking countries and compare similarities and differences between them.

In business, a lot of our time is spent managing or contributing to projects. The success or failure of a

project is usually based on several factors including

time, money, people, planning and communication. In

this podcast Claire and Andy discuss common project management terms and roles.

Email is probably the most common communication

tool in the workplace today. There are many important differences between the way people speak in person

and the way they communicate in emails. In this

podcast, Claire and Andy look at at a few tips for writing

better business emails in English.

When you apply for jobs with English-speaking

companies, you may want to practice answering

some difficult interview questions that employers

could ask. In this podcast, Claire and Andy discuss

tough interview questions and give you suggestions

for answering them

Business meetings and staff meetings are useful for

sharing ideas, making decisions and updating team

members. But what can you do if one or two people are

doing all the talking? In this podcast, Claire and Andy

give their advice for politely interrupting people during

a meeting.