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I wish, if only, it’s time and would rather
How to talk about friends and friendship
What motivates you at work
Presenting to experts
How to Handle Four Common Types of Team Conflict
Listen with heart
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I wish, if only, it’s time and would rather
Learn how to use “I wish, if only, it’s time and would rather”.
How to talk about friends and friendship
Learn useful words and expressions to talk about friends and friendship.
What motivates you at work
What motivates you at work? Is it the money, public praise, more demanding assignments, or something else? Learn how to communicate the answer to this question to your boss. The lesson is based on an HBR article.
Presenting to experts
How to present to people who know more on the topic than you? Learn some great advice about this from Deborah Grayson Riegel’s article in HBR
How to Handle Four Common Types of Team Conflict
Learn to handle four common types of conflict in the workplace. This lesson is based on the article from Harvard Business Review by Randall S. Peterson et al.
Listen with heart
Want to become a better manager, better colleague, better partner, better parent? Learn how to listen with heart. Follow the advice from Harvard Business Review article by Jamil Zaki
Are you following your dream
Meetings on the go
The answer to the loneliness epidemic
He lied to me – how to talk about being angry
The Glucose Goddess Method
Pan Tadeusz – a true life-long learner
What You Need to Have a Strong Executive Presence
Learn what you need to increase your chances of becoming a leader in your organisation. Follow the advice from the HBR article: “The New Rules of Executive Presence,” by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Silence your inner critic during an interview
Do you know who is your worst enemy during a job interview? Susan Peppercorn believes that it is your inner critic. Learn how to silence it in this lesson based on HBR Management Tip
Travelling collocations with Lucy
Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want
Ever thought if you could apply business strategy principles to your own life? That’s exactly what this lesson is based on. It’s video by Michael Bungay Stanier from Harvard Business Review
5 tips for the new year
Write an Effective Self-Assessment
How do you feel about yearly assessment meetings with your boss? It’s not easy to feel totally relaxed, is it? One thing that can help you here is writing an effective self-assessment yourself, before you meet your boss. This lesson will help you with just that. It is based on Harvard Business Review article.
Hot 21 – make or do
HOT 21 – new series of tests with 21 items for you to solve. We open the series with a test on collocations with “make” and “do”.
Test your question tags – part 2
How good are you at using question tags?
Life changing stories – Michele – part 3
Moods are weather
Learn to talk about moods. What do you say, for example, when you are a bit confused and not know which way to go?
Mars 500 mission
Why the pencil is perfect
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
Death by comfort by Paul Taylor
6 traits of true masculinity
To Engage Your Team, Focus on Their Happiness
A simple formula for making a great pitch
If there was a simple formula to a great speech, would you like to know what it is? Find out how to build an awesome presentation using the tops from an HBR article.
