Confident Business English
Are you a senior manager who lacks confidence communicating in English at work? Accredited Neurolanguage Coach® Anna Connelly brings professionals like you, who already need to use English in their daily work, practical business English tips to help your boost confidence. Listeners say they love the podcast because it's to-the-point, useful and touches on very relevant topics.
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For the penultimate episode of Confident Business English this season, I am bringing you a bonus guest episode Emma from Pronunciation with Emma. If you haven't heard of Emma already, she has 15+ years of experience and over 1 mill. followers on social media. In short, she knows her stuff. She is going to spend 30 minutes with you to hopefully help you towards feeling less self-concious about your pronunciation. Emma talks about:
<...Your team member is leaving, you find out a colleague is pregnant or sadly a colleague's family member has passed away. What to say in these real moments in the workplace? Let me walk you through 11 one-liners you feel confident you know exactly what to say. Hope it's useful. Anna
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Do you have to convince and persuade your colleagues on your ideas? Are you worried your points sound flat and don't make an impact because you don't have the right words? In this episode I illustrate how choosing the right vocabulary can make a big difference to how your argument comes across. Learn quick, practical tricks about what to include to sound more convincing and common pitfalls which will make your argument sound weaker...
Recently, I've been getting the same question from my clients. "How do I use the present perfect properly? I understand the technical grammar but I have doubts about when to use it." As you are always a senior manager too, you may also lack confidence in how to use. That's why I wanted to dedicate an episode to covering this in-depth and help build your confidence with it. It is a HIGHLY useful tense to feel comfortable with as we...
Let's build your confidence with your core skills - understanding when your colleagues are speaking quickly. In this episode, I focus on business english phrases with connected speech to help you identify key sounds which will enable you to quickly recognise what people are saying.
I'm in the UK this week and we are going to take a break from the normal schedule to bring you another Little Snippet. These are my 5-minute episode formats with tips and tricks focused on one specific Business English topic. This one focuses on understanding your native colleagues better. I hope you find it useful! Anna
This is a series called Essential Business Verbs. We continue our look at "get" one of the verbs my clients say time and time they find very confusing. I walk you through 3 more common meanings, examples and a chance to practice along with me at the end of the episode. Invest just 11 minutes of your time to build your confidence sp...
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Let me take you through a simple structure you can use to sound great when communicating high-level trends in your sector in English. I also share lots of real-life examples sent in by other professionals listening to this podcast.
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Join me this week for a bonus episode where I invite Oli Cooke, a mindset coach for high achievers to share his practical tips for your biggest challenges. In my opinion, Improving your mindset when communicating in English and becoming more resilient is a big part of creating a lasting change where you actually feel more comfortable speaking in a work context. I hope you enjoy the episode...
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Join me for more of my key business english takeaways from my work as a Neurolanguage Coach. I touch on loads of topics. Vocabulary, grammar, reading tips and mindset. Don't miss out.
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Have you ever wanted to ask a colleague to go for a coffee or lunch before a meeting, but felt awkward (uncomfortable) because you didn’t know the right phrases? Let me share three key phrases in English to invite your colleagues for coffee or lunch in different situations—so you never have to feel awkward or embarrassed again.
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Do you ever need to report to your executive team but struggle to be concise in English? In this episode I share a simple communication framework that originated in the US military that you can take advantage of to make your life easier when reporting in English. Don't miss this one!
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Lack confidence when handling difficult meetings? Let me walk you through de-escalation phrases you can use wen there are challenging conversations and you want to direct the conversation to be more productive.
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This is a series called Essential Verbs for Business. I would like to start with how to use "get", one of the most common pain points I hear about. I will start to break down the most common uses, with examples and an opportunity to practice sentences at the end. Initially we will start with the more straightforward meanings and work this up to more advanced structures in future episode. I...
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Do you want to feel confident saying no to some of the most common requests by colleagues? Practice out loud on this interactive episode and feel more secure with quick, short sentences to say no in a polite and professional way. A lot of my clients find this hard which is why I wanted to focus on this with you too. Enjoy! Anna
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Do you want to express enthusiasm but don't want to sound too much? Or not enough? As a senior manager, it's important you feel secure when you speak and you are expressing what you want to say accurately. Join me this week to dive into the nuances of several common business phrases to express enthusiasm and build you confidence to get the tone right in your different business interactions...
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Join me for an episode where I walk you through some of my key business English takeaways over the last few weeks.
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Working with an international team on a big project? You will have to follow up with your team to keep on top all of the actions. What is the best way to do this without coming across as rude in both less urgent and more urgent situations? The forever worry of a senior manager. In this episode I dive into the art of the follow-up in English and give you professional phrases to help you get...
Do you ever need to keep meetings on track? You have no problem doing it in your own language but when it comes to English you feel more insecure. In this episode I'll give you 3-step phrases to redirect conversations you can learn on autopilot to never have to worry about how to do it again. I hope it's useful. Anna
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The next installment of our Real Business Conversation Series. The aim of these episodes is to build confidence with different accents you can come across in international business. In this episode a finance director from North West England is going to ask you small talk questions. The question is - can you keep up? We will go into each question in detail to help you feel more confident you know how to answer the nex...
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