Brainstorming – It’s 6ixth Sense!
The procedure and outline of using brainstorming in case study analysis with Padlet, an online tool, together with examples of final boards from three student groups.
Business Communication
Brainstorming for Business English
Brainstorming is an essential problem-solving skill in business that builds teams and generates creative solutions. Incorporating brainstorming techniques into your lectures can improve students’ communication skills and prepare them for real workplace scenarios.
No Response? Analysing a German’s Email to a Japanese Business Partner
Here’s a lesson in which an authentic email is analysed. You can use this analysis to conduct a ready-made session on how to write business correspondence in English.
Only Connect!
Business English involves developing effective communication skills. In turn effective communication skills improve students’ employability and their chances of being successful in their professional careers. In order to communicate meaningfully, it is essential that students know themselves.
Up Close and Personal – Tell Your Story
Once you’ve taught students about the benefits of storytelling and maybe shown a few examples from great presenters, how do you get your students to integrate stories into their presentations? Well, the answer is simply get them to tell you a story.
Here I outline my favourite, most productive, most powerful exercise to introduce students to telling stories.
How to Deliver a Presentation in English
You can quickly and easily improve the delivery of a presentation by varying pacing and intonation – using emphasis to draw the listeners into their key points. Here is a step by step procedure that can help you to teach or learn some vital skills.
Take Home Message – Start with the End in Mind
The first factor to decide on for any presentation is the Take Home Message. Start with the end in mind. What is the one thing you want people to think, know or do at the end of the presentation?
Rhetorical Techniques: Learn the Art of Great Presentations
All the tips so that you can convince students rhetorical devices and techniques are important – why we use them, how to use them & how to learn them.
6 Reasons Why You Teach The Use of Visual Aids
“I’m an English teacher and teaching students how to design and integrate visual aids is just not my job!” Not true! Presentation is a communication skill and Business English involves teaching communication skills. Our students need to be instructed on how to manage business communication effectively, powerfully and creatively. If giving presentations is part of …
Business Communication: Starting with Clear Understanding from the Get-Go
Many university students have little or no work experience or have never used English in a business environment. Even if students have work experience, there is no guarantee they have attended any communication skills training or used English at work. They have little or no understanding of what Business English is. This exercise addresses these issues.