This is second of a two-part Business English Pod series on business idioms related to the sea, السفن, and sailing.

You’ll often hear sailing idioms used in business discussions. A company is compared to a ship and employees are the ship’s crew.

في الحلقة الأخيرة, two colleagues named Lakisha and Warren were talking about the decline of Trussock’s, an engineering firm. They felt that Trussock’s problems were caused by the new CEO’s poor management. It seemed he had no concrete business plan and employees were confused and very unhappy. اليوم, Lakisha and Warren discuss ways that Trussock’s could become a viable, or successful, company again.

أسئلة الاستماع

1) What does Lakisha think should happen with Trussock’s management?
2) How might Trussock’s employees help the company’s situation?

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في حلقة الأعمال الإنجليزية هذه, we’re going to look at how التعابير التجارية related to ships and sailing can be used to describe company performance.

The image of a ship is a powerful one in business. The ship is like a company – a huge entity that must be steered toward success, maintained properly, and carefully guided away from dangers like storms and rocks. Employees are often seen as a crew of sailors, a group that must work together as a team. So sailing idioms frequently appear when we discuss business in English.

Today’s episode starts a two-part series on sailing idioms. Lakisha and Warren are two colleagues discussing the decline of Trussock’s, شركة هندسية كانت متعثرة منذ أن تولى الرئيس التنفيذي الجديد منصبه.

أسئلة الاستماع

1) ما هي الاختلافات الرئيسية بين الرئيس التنفيذي القديم لشركة Trussock والرئيس التنفيذي الجديد?
2) ما الذي يعتقد لاكيشا ووارن أنه سيساعد في تغيير الوضع في تروسوك?

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