在本商務英語Pod課程中, we start the first in a 2-part series on presenting a SWOT analysis.
A SWOT analysis is a simple but powerful framework for analyzing your company’s strengths and weaknesses – these are internal to the company – as well as the opportunities and threats you face outside the company. This analysis helps you focus on your strengths, minimize threats, and take the greatest possible advantage of opportunities available to you.
在今天的課程中, we’ll focus on the first two stages of a SWOT: strengths and weaknesses. We’ll practice language for providing an overview, introducing your main strength, maximizing positive aspects, and acknowledging and introducing a weakness.
We’ll be listening to Terry, a partner at a growing firm of accountants, talking to Susan, the company’s newly hired marketing manager. Terry needs to brief Susan about the company and SWOT is a quick and easy-to-understand framework for giving a quick overview of a company and its position.
聽力問題
1) What is the main source of business for the company? 2) What is the main strength identified by Terry? 3) What weaknesses does Terry mention?
This is the second in a two-part Business English Podcast lesson on resolving conflict, in which we’ve been focusing on solving everyday disagreements in the office. Ben, a new training specialist at a manufacturing company, feels that he is doing an unfair share (那是, too much) of the work in his department. 格里, Ben’s manager, talks with him to solve the problem.
在第一集中, we studied how Gerry opened the discussion in an informal, non-threatening way, and we looked at how he listened actively to Ben to win his trust.
在這一集, we’ll pay attention to how Gerry and Ben work together to come up with a solution. 尤其, we’ll focus on how they state common goals, raise concerns, and agree action.
我們上次停下來的地方, Gerry had just asked a question to resolve the conflict: Gerry wants to know what Ben would suggest doing to fix the situation.
聽力問題
1) What solution does Ben propose? 2) In which area does Ben feel he could make a real contribution? 3) What action do Ben and Gerry agree on?