Business English Pod Skills 360 – Managing Up 1: Working with your Boss
Business English Pod Skills 360 – Managing Up 1: Working with your Boss presents an audio lesson from the Business Skills 360 series on Business English Pod, a site of business English listening lessons. The host explains what managing up means, how much job satisfaction depends on the relationship with a manager, and how to study a manager's expectations, needs and preferred way of communicating in order to adapt.
Limits of the Free Tier Plan: The podcast audio, the MP3 download and the written extract on the page are free and need no account. Premium membership carries the lesson module, the quiz and vocabulary, the PDF transcript, the extra practice MP3s and the eBooks, and starts at ninety dollars for six months, with one-year and two-year plans above it.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page carries the lesson audio in a player, a link to download the podcast MP3, and a written extract of the talk covering the meaning of managing up, the idea that influence in the relationship runs both ways, and the questions to ask about a manager's style. Member links to the lesson module, the quiz and vocabulary and the PDF transcript sit underneath, with related lessons.
You listen in the player or download the MP3, and read the extract on the page as you go. Pause after each point and note the phrases the host uses to describe a working relationship, then say them aloud. Apply the questions about expectations and communication style to your own manager, and play the lesson a second time at full speed to follow the argument without the text.
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