Talking about leadership and management

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LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • learn and practise idioms connected to motivation,
  • explore types of leaders and share their experiences,
  • read and analyse an article about the bossless workplace,
  • work with business-related collocations,
  • discuss using technology to help manage people.

In this lesson set, students organically move from discussing leadership and working without a boss to managing people with the help of technology. Along the way, they also have a chance to learn and practise useful phrases that can be used in all three lessons.

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Lesson 1

Start by discussing management and teaching useful idioms
idioms on motivation
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How bosses demoralize their employees

Business

Students watch and discuss a speech on the psychology of motivation at work. Students also explore and practise eight motivation idioms used in business. They also talk about how companies motivate and demotivate employees and watch a video that tells how to tackle it.

Lesson 2

Continue the topic and ask students to read an article
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Could a bossless workplace work?

Business

To do this lesson, students need to read an article at home. In the lesson, they practise the idioms while discussing types of bosses in ex. 1 (slide 4). Students also work with some phrases from the article (e.g. subordinate, collective decisions) and discuss more points about bossless workplace.

Lesson 3

Make students reuse the vocabulary and talk about management more
Business English collocations
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How to use technology to manage people better

Business

Students learn more business collocations (e.g. disruptive technology, performance appraisal, address an issue). They also watch a 7-min TED talk and talk about the role of technology in managing people. Encourage students to use the idioms and collocations from the previous lessons during a discussion in ex. 5 (slides 13-15).

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  1. LesleyR

    In British English you either have too much work or a too heavy workload. You do not have ‘too much workload’. This is poor English and not something I have ever heard said or seen written.

    1. Stan

      Hi Lesley! Thanks for the comment and bringing this to our attention. We looked into this and decided to update this worksheet as workload is a countable noun, and so ‘too much workload’ is not correct. Interestingly, the phrase “too much workload” is actually being used and we have seen it being used not only in online articles but also in research papers (1, 2) or even government documents (3). I guess this shows that the language is evolving and such a phrase is being used, however, technically it’s still incorrect.

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