刘博士英语公开课22:公司会议英语-如何表现你自己
【本课内容】:在接下去的几课中,我们将听到在外企或是多文化办公环境中的会议英语实践对话。市面上大多数的商业英语教育的教的顶多是商业环境中的问候语或是提问英语,很少会涉及到办公室英语的实质。这些教育机构完全不会懂得外企人是多么喜欢开会,而且开会的多数时候,国人不是提问者,而是被人提问者。因此外企员工练就一身用英语开会、发言和应答的过硬本领非常重要,这包括,一些常用表达,惯用表达。练熟这些套路,你也能够掌握熟练地用英语的开会技巧。

在本课中,我们将听到三组会议片段,分别是拉动销售的会议,回顾财务费用的会议,以及应对风险的紧急方案会议。
【会议1:Driving Sales】
销售小老板希望大家想出具体的解决方案(Concrete solutions)来推动销售(drive sales)。一会儿大老板要来,得给好建议。一位男销售建议降价,另一位女销售则建议搞一个买一送一的促销(two-for-one offer)。小老板均表示不满意。这时候大老板走进门来。 女销售赶紧把自己的促销方案说了出来。大老板觉得不错。

【会议2:Finance Review】
财务回顾是销售会议一个必然会有的环节。在这次财务回顾中,财务人员Jill指出这个月的费用太高了(expenses are through the roof),尤其是T&E (travel and entertainment) expenses are out of control。Gill 把一些高额的报销单一一列出来,销售老大的脸立刻挂不住了。
【会议3:Planning for Emergency】
这是一幕和当下有些相似的情形会议。公司几个部门人召开会议,讨论近期爆发的禽流感可能造成的影响和应对措施。老板指定了某一来lead 这个项目,并做出计划。

【刘博士经理人英语小知识】;经理人的基本职责。
Five Basic Operations of a manager:
经理人的5项基本工作:
1) Setting Objectives/制定目标;
2) Organizing /组织;
3) Motivating The team /激发团队动力;
4) Devising systems of measurement/设计考核体系;
5) Developing People/培养接班人。

【刘博士经验分享】:如何培养自己的经理人意识和能力。
(注:这只是我的个人经验的分享。我相信我们许多人都有自己的好经验。如果对你没有帮助,不用理会这个建议。)。
我们每个人在职业生涯中都希望能够快快成为经理,希望老板能够快快提拔自己。但是我在外企的很多时候,不是不愿意提拔我的下属,而是有时候我真的看不出他们如何能胜任提拔,尤其是当这个经理的位置需要承担责任和义务的时候。员工应该如何体现出自己能够胜任提拔,或是自己能够承担岗位责任呢?
1) 养成凡事从你老板/经理人的角度考虑问题,做工作。许多员工把老板安排的工作称之为“活儿”,把活儿干了就好了。其实,老板交给你干的任何工作,都有他的原因,他希望达到的目标。因此要把老板的工作当作你自己的任务,要比老板还要了解人物的原因,要充分实现老板的目标,并试图把老板没有考虑到的也考虑到了(通过公开或私下沟通,把工作的原因目标,因素和你的建议都考虑清楚,并和老板充分达成一致意见)。
2) 不要每每遇见问题,就把问题甩给老板去解决。虽说我们传统中有服从领导的习惯,但是在商业中,你这样做是把所有的责任都推给老板。老板最害怕这样的下属,因为老板不知道下属是真的无能,还是在给自己下套。老板会最防着这种下属,这种下属也最没有晋升的机会。实际上,遇见问题的人是最清楚问题可能的解决方案的。一个有提拔潜力的下属,在遇见问题的时候,应该能及时给老板讲清情况,同时给老板2-3个你自己认为可以执行完成的解决方案,让老板拍板从他的角度来看最合适的选择。然后由你或是你在老板的协助下将其实现。把责任留给自己,把业绩留给老板。老板一定会记住你的能力,有机会绝不会忘了你。
3) 要记住一点:你能够尽快提升的最好途径,是让你的老板能够尽快提升,所以你们在工作上是一条战线的。
4) 最后再提醒一点:很多员工自己在工作上非常得力,变成这个岗位不可或缺的人选,但是如果你不能自己培养你的接班人的话,老板有时会想,你升上去了,这个活儿谁来干?所以太能干,却不能/不愿培养接班人,也会对你造成影响。不是我不提拔你,实在是没有人能接替你呀!
希望这些心得能够对那些有职业发展规划有上进心的职场人士有帮助。

下面,我们将进入全英语的基础英语内存构建时间,请切换你的语言程序,进入纯英文模式。
刘博士英语学习法的学习方式:
1) 首先阅读文字材料,完全理解对话的书面内容,包括扫除单词障碍和语法障碍,领会对话的含义。
2) 然后开始听音频材料,将书面文字和声音表达进行匹配:即能够看着阅读材料清晰地听出音频内容 (这一步是听清楚的练习。如果可能,可以在有空时试着做听写练习)。
3) 将听力内容从他人的声音信息转化成你的口语声音信息:请一边阅读,一边跟着音频复述,最终,学习者可以流利地将音频内容跟读下来,并同步理解(这一步是练习你的口语表达,也是为了让你形成自己的英语声音内存)。

【Audio Transcript】:Sales Meetings, Finance Meetings.
【meeting 1: Driving sales】:
A: All right, people. We’re holding this meeting today because we’ve got to do something about our sales, and we need to do it NOW! I want concrete solutions. How do you intend to drive sales, Roger?
B: Well, in fact, we’re the most expensive in the market, so maybe we need to lower our prices to match the competitors?
A: Lower our prices? Not very creative. It’ll never fly with Swan. What kind of thinking is that? Geez. Anybody else have a better plan? Natalie?
C: Um, perhaps, um, a sales promotion. Maybe a two-for-one offer, or something like that!
A: What? That’s the same thing. Bad idea. Really bad idea. Dammit people come on! Think! The CEO will be here any minute.
D: Do we have any ideas yet?
C: Yes Mr. Swan, we were kind of considering a two-for- one offer to get more competitive.
D: A two-for-one promotion? Hmm. I kind of like the sound of that. It sounds like something we should consider.
A: Yeah, exactly. Just what I was thinking! In fact, that’s a brilliant idea! I’m glad we thought of that. Very creative.
【Meeting Two: Finance Review】
A: OK, so now the last point on our agenda. Jill, let’s go over the profit and loss statement.
B: Great. Well, the main issue here, as you can see, is that our expenses are through the roof.
A: Let’s see... These numbers are off the charts! What’s going on here!
B: Well, um, sir, the company expenditures on entertainment and travel are out of control. Look at these bills for example. Just this month we’ve paid over twenty thousand dollars for hotel charges!
A: OK, thank you. I’ll look into it.
B: The list goes on and on. Here, this is a bill for five thousand dollars for spa treatments!
A: Thank you; that will be all. I’ll take care of it.
B: Look at this one sir, eight thousand dollars were spent in one night at a place called “Wild Things”?!
A: OK, I get it!! Thank you for your very thorough analysis!
【Meeting Three: making emergency plans】
A: Well, right, let’s move to our next order of business, as many of you are aware, in recent weeks there has been a lot of media coverage surrounding this bird flu issue. And it’s come to my attention that our company lacks any sort of bird flu contingency plan.
B: Basically, we need to come up with a clear plan; we need to outline specific actions that our company can take to maintain critical business functions in case a pandemic strikes.
A: So, what I’d like to do is: first appoint someone to look after drafting our plan; Ralph, I’d like you to head up this project.
C: Sure, no problem. What issues do you want me to consider?
B: Well, let’s see, there are a few points we need to be thinking about. . . first, I’ll need you to analyze our numbers and figure out what kind of financial impact an outbreak might have.
A: You’ll also need to think about how we can avoid any of our employees getting infected; think of ways to reduce employee-customer contact, perhaps some IT solutions that will allow our people to work from home.
C: I guess you’ll need me to forecast employee absences as well, right? And I’ll think about the impact this will have on our clients. Hey, what about vaccines? Should we be thinking about getting vaccines for our employees?
A: Exactly right. So, I’ll leave this to you, and we’ll review the draft plan in two weeks. Okay, so, anyone want to order some KFC for lunch?
(the End)



