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Skills 360 – Defending your Ideas (Part 2)

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Welcome back to Skills 360 for today’s lesson on how to defend yourself and your ideas.

One of the tough things in business is that you’re not just dealing with ideas and rational decisions. You’re dealing with people. And people don’t always take a cool and logical approach to things, even if you do. They get emotional about ideas and worked up about disagreement. And you might get that way too. Passion is a good thing, but too much negative emotion is counterproductive. So how can we manage people’s emotions while continuing to defend ourselves?

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Skills 360 – Defending your Ideas (Part 1)

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Welcome back to Skills 360 for today’s lesson on how to defend yourself and your ideas in a competitive world.

Some people might think that good ideas will win the day, simply because they’re good ideas. But it’s not that simple. If you’ve got good ideas, you’re going to have to convince people of their value. And you’ll definitely have to defend them against all the people out to criticize or compete with you. It’s a dog eat dog world, as they say, and you want to make sure you’re not the dinner.

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Skills 360 – Top 10 Business English Skills (2)

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Welcome back to the Skills 360 podcast for business English.

In today’s lesson, we’re going to continue our look at the 10 key characteristics of the successful business leader.

And just like last time, we’re going to match these qualities to useful words or phrases that you can use in your everyday work life.

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Skills 360 – Top 10 Business English Skills (1)

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Welcome back to Skills 360. It’s great to be back for a new season of podcasts from Business English Pod.

For today’s lesson, we’re going to take a look at 10 key skills or characteristics that every successful business leader needs. You’ve probably heard this kind of list before, but I want to do something a bit different. I’ve matched these key skills with simple but powerful words or phrases that you can use every day. In business, competition is fierce, and you want every advantage you can get, right? So let’s find out how you can get a leg up.

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Skills 360 – Giving and Receiving Feedback (Part 2)

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Welcome back to Skills 360 for today’s lesson on receiving feedback with a positive attitude.

How do you feel when you hear something like this from your manager: “Listen, I really need to talk to you about the work you’ve been doing on that big project.” If you’re like most people, your heart starts beating a little faster and your mind starts racing. In fact, this is a common reaction to the idea that we’re about to receive feedback. We naturally don’t like it. But it’s important, so we need to learn how to receive feedback constructively.

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