BEP 96 – Socializando: Refeições de Negócios

In most parts of the world, having lunch or dinner together is an important part of doing business. In places such as North America, eating meals is a way of building a relationship or celebrating a partnership. And in other cultures, such as China, much of the real work of making deals actually often gets done over the dinner table.

No matter where you are doing business, it’s important to be able to handle the basics of dining out. This includes ordering food, recommending dishes, proposing a toast, and paying for the check, among other things. These skills will be the focus of this episode.

Na escuta, we continue to follow Mario and Francesca, who represent the Italian fashion company Viva, on their visit to the U.S. As planned, they are having dinner in Las Vegas with their distributor Adriana, who works at the American company Foxtrot. Conta, one of their new customers, has also joined them.

When the dialog begins, the group has already made some small talk and looked at the menu. Now they are ready to order.

Perguntas de escuta:

1) Why doesn’t Francesca want to try thesteak tartare?”
2) How does Francesca signal that she’s ready to go back to the hotel?
3) Who pays for the meal?

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BEP 95 – Comunicação: Resolvendo Conflito (2)

Esta é a segunda lição de podcast de inglês para negócios em duas partes sobre resolução de conflitos, em que nos concentramos em resolver divergências cotidianas no escritório. Bem, um novo especialista em treinamento em uma empresa de manufatura, sente que está fazendo uma parte injusta (isso é, demais) do trabalho em seu departamento. Gerry, Gerente de Ben, conversa com ele para resolver o problema.

No primeiro episódio, estudamos como Gerry abriu a discussão de uma forma informal, maneira não ameaçadora, e vimos como ele ouviu Ben ativamente para ganhar sua confiança.

Neste episódio, prestaremos atenção em como Gerry e Ben trabalham juntos para encontrar uma solução. Em particular, vamos nos concentrar em como eles estabelecem objetivos comuns, Levantar preocupações, e concordar com a ação.

Onde paramos da última vez, Gerry tinha acabado de fazer uma pergunta para resolver o conflito: Gerry quer saber o que Ben sugeriria fazer para resolver a situação.

Perguntas de escuta

1) Que solução Ben propõe?
2) Em que área Ben sente que poderia dar uma contribuição real??
3) Em que ação Ben e Gerry concordam?

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BEP 94 – Comunicação: Resolvendo Conflito (1)

People do not always get along, so dealing with conflict is part of any job. And as often as not, work disagreements get resolved as much as in informal discussions in the hallway, as they do in the conference room. Então, in this two-part series on resolving conflict, we’ll be studying useful language for discussing and resolving disagreements.

We will be focusing not on major conflicts between companies or inside organizations, but rather on the everyday sort of disagreements that all of us have to deal with to be successful in our work.

Na escuta, Elegant is a company that designs and manufactures bathroom fixturessinks, toilets, e assim por diante. Ben has recently joined Elegant as a training specialist. When he started, he was promised that Elegant would hire someone to help him with his work-load, but instead he is still doing almost everything by himself. He was also promised the opportunity to do some course design, but instead his manager, Gerry, insists on closely supervising all of Ben’s work. Ben feels like he is working harder than anyone else in the office: He is always the last one to leave the department in the evening. But he doesn’t feel that his hard work is getting recognized.

Enquanto você escuta, pay attention to the language that Gerry and Ben use to deal with this disagreement.

Perguntas de escuta

1. Gerry says he wants to “sit down informally and thrash things out a little.”
2. What do you think this means? A strain is something that is tiring and, perhaps, irritating.
3. What does Gerry say is “getting to be kind of a strain?” What solution does Gerry propose?

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Ajuste de e-mail 01 – E-mails em inglês comercial

Hoje, estamos lançando uma nova série de vídeos em inglês no escrevendo emails em ingles: Ajuste de e-mail

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Cada vídeo apresentará uma revisão de um e-mail da vida real de um de nossos membros. Depois de revisar o plano de fundo e o conteúdo do email, veremos quais melhorias podemos fazer analisando a redação de acordo com 3 critérios principais:

1. Mecânica – a gramática, pontuação, ortografia e layout do e-mail.
2. Estilo – o uso de vocabulário e a forma como as frases são estruturadas.
3. Tom – a impressão geral, ou sentimento, o texto cria.

Depois de revisar e editar o e-mail, veremos algumas dicas para melhorar sua escrita e, em seguida, terminaremos com uma tarefa de redação para que você possa praticar.

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BEP 93 – Inglês para Vendas: Recebendo um pedido

Nesta lição sobre inglês para negócios, we’ll be focusing on the language of taking an order and discussing standard terms, such as delivery time, payment method, e assim por diante.

The listening takes us back to the Foxtrot showroom in Las Vegas. As you’ll recall, Foxtrot is the American distributor for Viva, an Italian clothing, or Apparel, manufacturer. Bill is a buyer for a chain of department stores, who has now decided to purchase from Viva. Foxtrot representative Adrianne and her Viva partner, Mario, discuss Bill’s order with him.

Before we get started, it’s important to emphasize that this conversation is not really a negotiation, but rather a situation where most parts of the deal are already agreed to. Então, in this episode, we’ll be studying vocabulary for summarizing the terms of a typical commercial order and learning phrases for managing customer-vendor relationships, for example by reassuring the customer to build goodwill.

Perguntas de escuta

1) When he says, “We operate on a narrow window for deliveries,” what does Bill mean?
2) The term chargeback refers to all or part of a fee being refunded, or returned, to the buyer. For what situation is Bill quitestrict on chargebacks?”
3) When would Bill like the first delivery to be made, e porque?

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