Business and pleasure
Definition of CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT
Entertaining clients in a social setting
Give someone permission to start doing something
Numbers increase very quickly
Give someone the green light
Numbers go through the roof
Change of ............ means rethinking your attitude and approach to something
mindset
A company's standards to measure success. Reference points
Benchmark
Name the most and the least direct nationality (according to our list)
American / Japanese
True of False
'Incidentally' means 'by the way'
True
Following rules and work 100% according to rules
Dominating a particular sector
Start a project
Work by the book
Corner the market
Get the ball rolling
......................... gives employees the confidence and the authority to take control of their job
Empowerment
To be ................ means to make things happen instead of waiting for them to happen
To ................. means to combine strengths and work together as a team
Proactive
Synergize
Put the countries in order or their direct or indirect attitude
Chinese / French / Brazilian / Italian / German
German - Brazilian - French - Italian - Chinese
What do you say when you want to finish a conversation?
It's been really nice talking to you
I'll have to be going
I really have to go now
Taking a low level job at a company just to start a career and get a higher position in the future
Not making money, operating at loss
Stop taking orders and end the book keeping period
Getting a foot in the door
In the red
Close the books
To ........... ....... productions or sales means to increase them
ramp up
When you lose touch with the real world you need to ..................................
To ............. something ....................... means to expand it and make it more competitive
do a reality check
take something to the next level
Make the sentences more blunt:
I'm sorry to report that the project has not been a complete success
There will be some restructuring in the department
We failed
People might lose their job
Complete the stages of making a conversation#
........... up a conversation
........... people into the conversation
.......... people occasional compliments
Do not .......... people too directly
.......... the subject smoothly
Do not ........... the conversation .......... too abruptly
Start
Bring
Pay / Give
Contradict / Challenge
Change
Break off
Continue with something difficult or disagreeable
Stick it out
Looking at the situation as a whole
Essential, important point in a discussion
Get into more details
Looking at the big picture
The bottom line
Drill down
A company's ................ ........................ are strengths, the things they do particularly well
core competencies
Make the sentences more blunt:
Now it's not the time to expand but to consolidate
We have always been a market-driven organization
There's a general lack of consumer confidence
Let's do nothing
We've never had an original idea
We are not selling
If you benefit a lot from a topic of a conversation we say:
It had a lot of m_ _ _ _ _ _
mileage
Start looking for a job and quit before you are getting fired
Jump before being pushed
.................. .......... is a fundamental change in the way something is done
Paradigm shift
Getting ....................... from people means they support you or your ideas
Buy in
What is the opposite of 'buoyant' (market)
Pessimistic / dead