Business and pleasure
Idioms
Buzzwords 1
Buzzwords 2
Information Exchange
100

Definition of CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT

Entertaining clients in a social setting

100

Give someone permission to start doing something

Numbers increase very quickly

Give someone the green light

Numbers go through the roof

100

Change of ............ means rethinking your attitude and approach to something


mindset

100

A company's standards to measure success. Reference points

Benchmark

100

Name the most and the least direct nationality (according to our list)

American / Japanese

200

True of False

'Incidentally' means 'by the way'

True

200

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

200

......................... gives employees the confidence and the authority to take control of their job

Empowerment


200

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 

200

Put the countries in order or their direct or indirect attitude


Chinese / French / Brazilian / Italian / German

German - Brazilian - French - Italian - Chinese

300

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

300

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

300

To ...........    ....... productions or sales means to increase them


ramp up

300

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

300

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

400

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

400

Continue with something difficult or disagreeable


Stick it out

400

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

400

A company's ................   ........................  are strengths, the things they do particularly well

core competencies

400

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

500

If you benefit a lot from a topic of a conversation we say:

It had a lot of m_ _ _ _ _ _

mileage

500

Start looking for a job and quit before you are getting fired

Jump before being pushed

500

..................   .......... is a fundamental change in the way something is done

Paradigm shift

500

Getting ....................... from people means they support you or your ideas

Buy in

500

What is the opposite of 'buoyant' (market)


Pessimistic / dead