BEP 33 CC Presentations: Summarizing and Closing Down

In todays Christmas Classic, well be looking at closing down and summarizing your presentation. A strong conclusion to your presentation helps leave your audience with a good impression and gives them a clear message about what action to you like the

BEP 141 ADV–Presentations: SWOT Analysis(Part1)

In this Business English Pod lesson, we start the first in a 2-part series on presenting a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a simple but powerful framework for analyzing your companys strengths and weaknesses these are internal to the company as wel

BEP 142 ADV Presentations: SWOT Analysis (Part2)

This is the second in a 2-part Business English Pod series on presenting a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a tool that helps companies understand their strengths and weaknesses, while keeping in mind the opportunities and threats they face. In this

BEP 131 ADV–Presentations: Pitching an Idea(P3)

This is the final episode in our three-part Business English Podcast series on pitching an idea to your colleagues. In the last episode, we saw how a manager presented an idea to her colleagues and persuaded them to take it seriously. She then defend

BEP 130 ADV–Presentations: Pitching an Idea (Part 2)

In the last Business English Podcast lesson, we saw how a manager pitched an idea during a meeting. She explained how the company website could be revamped so that customers could order off-the-shelf products directly, instead of having to contacting

BEP 129 ADV Presentations: Pitching an Idea

This is the first in a three-part Business English Podcast series on pitching, or presenting, your ideas persuasively and convincingly. Business people often come up with ideas about how to do things better, or how something can be changed to provide

BEP 178–Presentations: Making an Impact (Part 2)

This is the second in a two-part usiness English Pod series about adding impact to your presentations. Nobody likes a long and boring presentation. In fact, a long and boring presentation can do a lot of damage. People might actually feel less convin

BEP 60 ADV – Persuasion 2: Establishing the Need

Welcome to the second in this three-part Business English Pod series on presenting your ideas presuasively. Last time we heard a bad example and a good example of persuasion. Then we covered the first step of the Monroe Sequence: We learned that to b

BEP 62 ADV – Persuasion 3: Satisfaction, Visualization and

In the first two ESL lessons (BEP 59 BEP 60) in this three-part series on persuasion, we saw how getting your audiences attention and demonstrating a clear need were essential to the persuasive process. We learned that in the indirect method of persu

BEP 101e – Presentations: Introducing your Presentation

Making your Introduction is a preview of our upcoming audio / ebook on presentations skills and language. In this first chapter we take a look at how to make a good start as well as at the overall structure of a presentation. This recording is a re-e

BEP 103e – Presenting for Success: Describing Charts and Tr

This is the first of three Business English Pod episodes on charts and trends from our new eBook Presenting for Success. Over these three shows, well be learning language for dealing with visuals, describing trends, analyzing and comparing data, and

BEP 85 INT – Sales: Informal Product Presentation

In this Business English Podcast lesson, were going to look at the language of presenting your products and services to potential clients in informal situations. Following on from our episode on hosting a site visit, we return to our friends at the r

BEP 106e – Presenting for Success: Using your Voice and Emp

To celebrate the holidays we are releasing a free lesson from our recent business English audio /e-book: Presenting for Success. Free copies of the transcript and online activities for this episode will also be available to listeners on Christmas Day

BEP 177–Presentations: Making an Impact (Part 1)

This is the first in a two-part Business English Pod series about adding impact to your presentations. Weve all sat through boring presentations before. And weve all worried during our own presentations that others might be feeling that way. So what

BEP 115 ADV – Presentations: Describing Trends

In this episode from our e-Book on presenting in English, well look at how to describe the trends show by a chart or graph. To get the background to the presentation and to review language for introducing visuals, you can refer back to BEP 103 Charts

BEP 37 ADV – Presentations: Question and Answer (Part 2)

Todays advanced Business English Podcast episode is the second in our a two-part series on question and answer, or QA. The listening starts where we left off last time. Nick, the new European sales director at Harper-Tolland Steel, is answering quest

BEP 133 ADV – Sales and Interviews: Elevator Pitch

In this Business English Podcast, were going to look at delivering an elevator pitch. A sales pitch is a presentation designed to introduce a product or service in order to convince people to buy it. An elevator pitch is a very short presentation des

BEP 59 ADV – Persuasion 1: Getting Attention

Do you ever need to persuade or convince someone of your point of view? Do you need to win support for a proposal, or get backing for a project? Of course you do. Persuasion convincing someone of something is an essential part of almost everything we

Business Skills 360–Tips for Successful Presentations 2

Welcome back Business Skills 360 the podcast that looks at the other side of Business English. This is the second part of our series on effective presentations. Last week, we talked about keeping it short, simple, engaging, and real. Much of that hap

BEP 92 INT – Sales: Features, Advantages, Benefits

For todays Business English Podcast lesson, were going to focus on the classic sales approach to selling products and services. This approach is based on explaining the features, attributes and benefits of your products using the FAB technique. The F