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Training
Starting Point

Discuss These Questions:

What skills do you need for your present job?
Did your company offer you any special
training?

What new skills would you like to learn for

your professional and/or personal
development?
Working with words
Personal Development
1. What does a sports coach do?
What about a business coach?
 THE BENEFITS OF BUSINESS COACHING
In recent years, business coaching has grown dramatically. Since 1999, the
3. Discuss the number of business coaches has risen from 2,000 to around 50,000 worldwide.
The results are so impressive that some companies hire coaches for all their
following questions.
managers to improve their performance.
What do business coaches do? Basically, they let you talk about the problems
Would you like to have you are having in your professional life and help you set new goals. They then
a business coach? If meet or speak with you regularly to see if you are making progress to achieve
you've already used your objectives. For example, they can find ways for you to get better sales
one, how did it help results, to motivate your team to work better or to improve your promotion
you? prospects in your company. Coaches do not actually make decisions for you, but
use their own experience to give you feedback on your ideas. They can also help
Why do you think you identify what training you might need to develop your skills. Coaching can be
business coaching has an ideal opportunity to take a step back and evaluate your lifestyle. The result is
become so popular? often a better work–life balance.
What does it give you Coaching is not cheap, but in a recent study 99% of companies or individuals
that other forms of said they were satisfied with the coaching experience, and a fifth of companies
training do not? estimated that the value to them was fifty times the money they had spent on the
training.
4. Match these words and phrases to definitions 1-8.

improve performance set goals achieve objectives motivate improve

promotion prospects give feedbacks develop skills take a step back

1 Think about your life in a calm way : take a step back

2 Give somebody the desire to do something
motivate
3 Learn how to do things better: develop/improve skills
4 Do your job better in general: improve performance
5 Decide what direction you want to take in your life: set goals
6 Obtain the specific results that you want: achieve objectives
7 Increase the possibilities of a better job in your company: improve
promotion prospects
8 Tell someone what you think of their performance: give feedback
 TIP | goals and objectives

Goals and objectives are both used to

describe results we want to obtain in the
future.
An objective is generally more specific in
terms of what you want and when you want
to achieve it:
My goal is to develop my management
skills. My objective is to become a team
leader within two years.
5. Complete sentences 1–7 with these words and phrases.
improve performance set goals achieve objectives motivate
promotion prospects give feedbacks develop skills take a step back

1 What things motivate you to do your job well?

2 When was your last annual appraisal? Did you set any goals for this year? 3
What are you doing to try and achieve them?
4 How often does your boss give you feedback on your performance?
5 Do you think training is the best way to improve your promotion prospects?
What other ways are there to move up in the company?
7 When is the best time to take a step back from your job?
8 What new skills would you like to improve/develope in your personal or
professional life?
9 Have you done any training courses recently to improve your performance at
work?
10 How have these courses helped you?
6. Match a company training course from the list to 1-5 below.

Project management

Personal development at work

Managing stress Five training courses to help you achieve your personal and professional
1 ______________ Take a step back and achieve a better work-life balance.
goals
Motivating employees
2 ______________ Be a better listener and express yourself more clearly.

3 ______________ Learn to speed read and deal with emails more quickly.
Communication skills
4 ______________ Set your team clear goals and give them better feedback.

Time management 5 ______________ Improve your organizational skills and meet your deadlines

every time.
7. Listen to Scott Wesley, a sales director, speaking with
different colleagues. Match extracts 1-3 to situations a-c.

a At the coffee machine _______

b At an annual appraisal _______

c At a meeting _______

8. Listen again and answer the questions.

1 Why aren't Scott's colleagues happy with what he

says?

2 What courses in 6 would you recommend for him?

Presenting Information
Lesson 3: Giving a progress report
 Table of Contents

01 VOCABULARY & STRUCTURE

02 EXERCISE & PRACTICE

03 WRAP-UP & HOMEWORK

Vocabulary
&
Structure
 Word power

Wor
No New Transcripti
d Meaning/Example
. words on
form
the amount or number of
1 Quantity /ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/ n something, especially that can be
Vocabulary measured

& 2 Quality /ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/ n how good or bad something is

Structure a planned group of especially

Campaig political, business, or military
3 /kæmˈpeɪn/ n
n activities that are intended to
achieve a particular aim
a test, usually over a limited period
4 Trial /traɪəl/ n of time, to discover how effective or
suitable something or someone is
an object or set of objects wrapped
Exercise
&
Practice
 Grammar practice

Choose the correct word or phrase in these

sentences from presentations.
1. Thank you very much for to come /
coming.
Exercise 2. My presentation is called / call 'Difficult
& negotiations'.
Practice 3. Ok, to / for begin, let's look at some figures.
4. As you can seeing / see in this graph,...
5. So, let's move / to move on to some
examples.
6. Time is moving out / on, so I'll stop there.
7. Let me sum up / summary then.
 Speaking practice
1

Your company wants to launch a new product.

Decide what the product is. Look at the stages and
decide which are useful for your product, and the
order you want them in.
Exercise Make a large quantity of the Prepare an
product to sell. advertising campaign.
&
Make a small quantity of the
Practice Conduct a research product for trials.

Think of a name. Ask people to try the product and tell

you what they think.

Decide on the Design the packaging.

price.
 Speaking practice
2

You are in the middle of your project. Decide which

of the stages are done, not done yet, or in
progress.
Prepare a progress report. Decide who is going to
Exercise talk
Makeabout
a large which stages.
quantity of the Prepare an
product to sell. advertising campaign.
&
Make a small quantity of the
Practice Conduct a research product for trials.

Think of a name. Ask people to try the product and tell

you what they think.

Decide on the Design the packaging.

price.
 Speaking practice
3

Work with another pair. Take turns to give a

progress report on your product.
saying what you have/haven't done and what is in
progress.
Exercise Listen, take notes and ask questions if necessary.

& Progress re
port
Practice 1. Brief descr
iption of pr
2. oject
Outline - w
hat the diff
stages are erent

3. Situation -
which stage
(not) done/ are
in progress
 Speaking practice
4
Can you list the steps in
the video?

Exercise
&
Practice
 Wrap-up
&
Homework
 Wrap-up

Wor
No New Transcripti
d Meaning/Example
. words on
form
the amount or number of
1 Quantity /ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/ n something, especially that can be
Wrap-up measured

& 2 Quality /ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/ n how good or bad something is

Homework
a planned group of especially
Campaig political, business, or military
3 /kæmˈpeɪn/ n
n activities that are intended to
achieve a particular aim
a test, usually over a limited period
4 Trial /traɪəl/ n of time, to discover how effective or
suitable something or someone is
an object or set of objects wrapped
 Homework

Wrap-up
&
Homework
 Homework

Wrap-up
&
Homework