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BVP 03 Vocabulário de Negócios – Gerente

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Today’s podcast continues our series on business vocabulary, with a special focus on collocations or word partnerships. By focusing on words that are commonly used together you can improve your vocabulary and also your ability to understand your English-speaking colleagues.

Quando você pensa em “office administration”, what are the first things that come to mind? They might be things like paperwork, apresentação, copying, and other boring and repetitive tasks. Most people probably don’t think of an office manager’s job as a crucial service that supports the successful running of a company and, portanto, its ability to make money.

Bem, today we’re about to meet Thomas, who’s going to tell us about the role he plays as office manager at the Mexican subsidiary of a multinational chemical company.

Perguntas de escuta

1) How does Thomas summarize his role as Office Manager?
2) What characteristics does Thomas list as important qualities of an office manager?
3) According to Thomas, what is a common misunderstanding about the best way for an office manager to do his job?

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BEP 97 – Falando sobre a economia

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Nesta lição de inglês para negócios, Podcast, estudaremos algumas frases e vocabulário que você pode usar para discutir questões econômicas e econômicas, incluindo preocupações expressas e tranquilizadoras.

Gostaríamos de expressar nossa simpatia e apoio ao público chinês em relação ao recente terremoto em Sichuan，E espero que as pessoas na área do desastre possam se recuperar do terremoto o mais rápido possível。

Nenhum acordo é feito, nenhum contrato é assinado, nenhum negócio é realizado apenas entre duas pessoas ou duas empresas. Tudo ocorre no contexto de redes de relacionamentos no local, regional, e escalas globais. Essas relações de preço e produção formam o que é chamado “a economia.” Pessoas que estudam economia – economistas – gostaria de salientar, por exemplo, que o preço da soja no Brasil pode afetar o preço da carne na China. Não é nenhuma maravilha, então, que uma atividade favorita de empresários de todos os lugares está falando sobre a economia. Somente entendendo o ambiente econômico em que fazemos negócios é que podemos operar efetivamente nele.

O diálogo hoje acontece na Kendal Marcus, um varejista global de roupas e acessórios de mercado. Um varejista vende mercadorias para o cliente final; acessórios são coisas como jóias e cintos que combinam com ou “accessorize” roupas. Durante uma viagem a Xangai, Martinho, um vice-presidente da Kendal, está visitando Tony Wu, gerente nacional da China.

Perguntas de escuta:

1) Por que Martin veio para a China?
2) Tony está otimista quanto às perspectivas econômicas, esse é o futuro, na China?
3) Que tipo de preocupações Martin tem?
4) Como Tony o tranquiliza?

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BVP 02 – Recursos Humanos: Gerente de treinamento

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In the second part of our new ESL podcast series on business vocabulary, we continue with the topic of recursos Humanos (RH) by looking at useful language and collocations to describe the role and responsibilities of a training manager.

In this fast-changing global world, everything is moving. To make a successful business, it’s not enough just to follow yesterday’s trend. Companies and people need to constantly acquire new skills to succeed in tomorrow’s marketplace. This means driving new training initiatives to enhance performance. No entanto, not all training is equally successful. To ensure training effectiveness, it’s important to track results and to have standard criteria for measuring outcomes.

Neste podcast, we’ll listen to Andrea, a training manager, describing her function and responsibilities. Afterwards, we’ll study some key vocabulary. Then we’ll practice what we’ve learned.

Perguntas de escuta

1) What kind of training programs does Andrea run?
2) Does Andrea work with vendors? What for?
3) What do the five letters in SMART stand for?

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BVP 01 – Recursos Humanos: Gestor de RH

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Today we’re kicking off a new series of ESL business vocabulary podcasts based on people talking about their jobs. In these episodes, we’ll learn vocabulary and language that are useful across a wide range of different professions and industries.

In this podcast we’ll hear an HR manager, Greg, describe his work and responsibilities. Afterwards, we’ll study some key vocabulary. In particular we’ll be focusing on how words are collocated, or used together. Then we’ll practice what we’ve learned.

When we think about human resource managers, many of us just think of hiring and firing, but actually, as Greg explains, the job involves a lot more than that. HR handles everything from job evaluations to settling disagreements between workers and management.

Perguntas de escuta

1) What type of employment programs does Greg develop and manage?
2) Are there several HR managers or only one in Greg’s company?
3) Greg says that HR managers play a special role in companies that are unionized. What is this role?

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BEP 74 – Idiomas ingleses: Negócios são guerra (2)

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This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series on English idioms related to war.

Everywhere you look in business, you will find the language of war: We often think – and talk – about business competition in terms of attacking and defending, gaining and losing ground.

During the first business ESL podcast in this series, we studied many such war and military related idioms. We learned the meaning of “taking flak,” “reinforcing one’s position,” “laying low,” “making a move” and many others. Neste podcast, we will continue exploring useful war idioms.

The dialog picks up where we left off at the Luminex management meeting. Jane has just explained that they need to think “strategically.” He explains that this means “laying low,” by which he means waiting to take action until the economy improves.

Enquanto você escuta, pay attention to the war idioms Jane and her colleagues use. You may not understand them the first time. After you hear the debrief, go back and listen again, then things should be much clearer.

Perguntas de escuta

1) What does Jane mean when she says their competitor, Meyers, is its own worst enemy?
2) The speakers describe their new strategy as an “ambush” that will “surround” Meyers. Why do they say this? What is the strategy?

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