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.
當你想到 “office administration”, what are the first things that come to mind? They might be things like paperwork, 備案, 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, therefore, its ability to make money.
好, 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.
聽力問題
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?
In the second part of our new ESL podcast series on business vocabulary, we continue with the topic ofhuman resources (人力資源)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. 然而, not all training is equally successful. To ensure training effectiveness, it’s important to track results and to have standard criteria for measuring outcomes.
在這個播客中, 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.
聽力問題
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?