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View the full archive of The Business Spotlight Podcast Vocabulary: Congratulating Your colleague Martin is being honoured for the good work he’s done. Once the formal speech is over, what can you say to Martin? Here are some words and phrases you can use to congratulate him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Maximilian Büsser Do you know what horology is? It’s the study of time and the science of timekeeping. In this week's podcast, we speak to Swiss watchmaker, Maximilian Büsser. He directs a team of horological professionals to create radically different timekeeping pieces.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meetings: International meetings In international meetings, native speakers usually have a linguistic advantage. This means they can easily dominate proceedings and have an unfair influence on the outcomes of the meeting. So what can you do about it? Communication skills expert Ken Taylor is here to help! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intercultural: Test your skills In this week's podcast we look at a situation where a misunderstanding might be based on intercultural differences. Can you see where the problem lies? Intercultural communication expert Robert Gibson also has some suggestions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grammar: Participles Do you know what a participle clause is? No? Well then, this exercise is for you! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News: Head to head This week, we ask people on the street in Los Angeles the question "Is technology making us stupid?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skills: Successful small talk Do you find it hard to start conversations with people you don’t know? Then you‘ll be happy to hear that Ken Taylor is here to help us with some strategies for successful small talk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News: Insight business news This week we listen to the business news. We'll play two short news segments for you, one on the effect of the recession on filmmaking in Bollywood, and the other on a UK company called Ounces2Pounds. As you listen, see if you can answer the following questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skills: Using humour at work When something goes wrong at work, we can use humour to lighten the situation. One form of humour is self-deprecation. This is when you jokingly say something negative about yourself. Here's Ken Taylor with some examples and an exercise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intercultural: Moving down under In this week's podcast we talk to Nerida Frost, a Canadian who moved to New Zealand four years ago with her husband and children. We ask her why people want to live in New Zealand and how difficult it is to move there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Telephoning: Making an appointment When you call someone to make an appointment you have to introduce yourself in such a way as to make your business partner want to talk to you. Let’s look closely at the area of awakening interest in your listener. Ken Taylor has a simple, three-stage method you can use to make it easier. einen Termin vereinbaren Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intercultural: Romania Romania has been a member of the EU since 2007. But how much do you know about doing business in this country? Intercultural communication expert Robert Gibson talks to a studio guest about German–Romanian relations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vocabulary: Legal English This week we concentrate on legal English — more specifically on the subject of torts and tort law. A tort is when one person’s non-criminal behaviour causes harm to another person. in this exercise, we’ll first give you a brief definition of four general areas of tort, then we’ll test how well you can use this vocabulary. Ready? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Negotiating: The role of emotions This week we look at how emotions can affect us during negotiations, and what we need to do to produce a positive emotional climate. One important aspect of this is to communicate a respect for other people. Here is communications skills expert, Ken Taylor, with more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: John Hutchins Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a machine that could automatically translate everything for us? Well, that’s the aim of machine translation. Programmers and linguists have been trying to make automatic translations a reality for more than 50 years. To find out more about the subject, we spoke to John Hutchins, a retired librarian from the University of East Anglia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News: Dim outlook for diamonds This week we take you to Africa, more specifically, to Botswana, where the diamond trade is losing its shine. Listen to the news story carefully, because we will ask you some questions at the end! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vocabulary: At the cafeteria Are you hungry for some vocabulary practice? This week, we do an exercise on the vocabulary you’ll need in a cafeteria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Telephoning: Answering the phone in English When you answer your phone at work, you want to sound confident and professional. Our communication skills expert, Ken Taylor, is here to tell you how to answer an international call in a professional way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview: Archbishop Desmond Tutu In this week's podcast we speak to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of South Africa’s best-known critics of apartheid. He told us what qualities makes a good leader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intercultural: Socializing When we do business with people from other cultures, we share a common purpose — getting the work done — so we usually know what to talk about. But what happens when you spend time with foreign colleagues or business partners outside of the office? Intercultural communications expert Robert Gibson is here to talk about socializing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website