Short: This series of podcasts helps you to improve your English for your career in the workplace, and cover a large number of business and work themes. They are suitable for learners at intermediate to advanced level.
1. Achievement: Listen to this speech given at a party being held for the retirement of an employee, James Dawson. The managing director of the company delivers a speech outlining James's achievements. 2. Advice on writing CVs: Listen to an interview with a recruitment expert, who talks about his experience of reading CVs and offers some good advice on writing them. 3. Biotechnology: Listen to two students talking about genetically modified food. Frank is for GM food, but his friend Ann is against it. 4. Business and ethics: Listen to an extract from a lecture on business and ethics. 5. Change Management: Listen to a consultant talking about the basic stages of the change process, and the people in the change management team. 6. Complaining: Listen to a conversation between a Human Resources Manager and an employee who is unhappy with the way he is treated by his boss. 7. Conference calls: Listen to part of a conference call organised by a company called Softcell Incorporated. 8. Developing creativity: Listen to part of a radio programme. Peter Jones works for Art and Business, a company that develops creative partnerships between business and the arts. 9. eBay: Listen to this business school seminar from the year 2006 where the seminar leader talks about how eBay achieved its success. 10. Emotional intelligence: Listen to an extract from a lecture on emotional intelligence given by a professor at a business school. 11. English for Medicine - A Doctor's view: Listen to an interview with a retired doctor, Rajan Mehta, about his life working in the UK. 12. Going global: Listen to a radio programme in which people from three companies talk about their experiences of going global. 13. Interviewing techniques: Listen to a journalist giving advice on interviewing techniques. 14. Line management: Listen to part of a radio programme where a manager is talking about dealing with staff. 15. Managing Conflict: Listen to some people trying to resolve a dispute at work with the help of a mediator. 16. Managing diversity: Listen to a business management expert talking about the price that some companies have to pay when they fail to address diversity-related risks. 17. Motivation in the Workplace: Listen to an extract of an interview with a professor of Business Studies about the subject of motivation. 18. Products and Brands: Listen to a radio interview in which the future of the Martha Stewart brand is discussed. 19. Public relations: A public relations account executive talks about how she got into the area of public relations and about her job. 20. Relationship-building: Listen to a trainer at the end of a management training session, summing up the importance of relationship-building as a competency and reviewing ways of developing the competency. 21. Trend analysis: Listen to an interview with a social commentator on changes in patterns of working. 22. Viral Marketing: Listen to part of a radio programme where people are talking about viral marketing. 23. Work burnout: Listen to the guests on this radio chat show speaking about the difference between work-related stress and burnout.