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Workplace skills
✓ your name on Zoom is clear (use Latin letters)
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needed)
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✓ you have a notebook or a note app ready to
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Check your audio and video settings Use Annotate when a screen is shared

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What do you expect to learn by the end of this class?

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 In this live part of the lesson, you will:

• role play a project review

• learn useful words to describe different stages of a work project
• discuss how a project is progressing

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Put these stages of a project in order. What happens first? Compare with a partner.

o Bring together a team 2/3

o Do the project 4
o Write a report 5 (evaluate, positive results, negative results, improve) (PRELIMINARY
REPORT)
o Have an idea 1
o Write a plan 2/3

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Why do projects have problems? Why do the following things cause problems?
Which, in your opinion, is the worst?

• Managers don’t have enough planning time

• Bad communication
• Unrealistic budget (amount of money set for the project) over budget, under budget
• Not checking progress

Can you think of other reasons for problems?

• Employee leaves in the middle of the project.
• Employees don’t have enough training
• Being behind schedule
• bad morale opposite good morale

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Match these expressions from the listening with the definitions below.

1. project team i a. spend less money

2. as planned g b. be late/not on time
3. supplier d c. do something later than planned
4. action plan g d. a seller/a company that sells to another company
5. consultant h e. the different actions in a project
6. Postpone c f. the amount of money we can’t spend more than
7. budget limit f g. to do actions on time
8. lower the cost a h. an outside person that helps a company with a project/part of a project
9. behind schedule b i. people working together on something

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Complete the sentences with the correct phrase from the previous
task. Change the form/tense if necessary.
1. We spent a few weeks planning and the ___project team__had a lot of new ideas, especially about
the computer’s design.
2. Can you go through the _action plan____for this project?
3. We were a little worried about __budget limit____ but it looks like we’ll spend only a few thousand
above the limit.
4. Are we _behind schedule_____? We were, a little, but we brought in a __consultant____to help us
change a few things and we will continue as planned.
5. Going back to the budget limits, we _lowered the cost______by giving the touch screen technology
contract to UniversalTECH. 1. project team i
2. as planned g
6. I know they are not our regular __supplier____but they gave us a really good price.
3. supplier d
7. So we will NOT have to _postpone______the promotion date, right? 4. action plan g
8. Everything is going __as planned_____. I am sure the promotion will be a success! 5. consultant h
6. Postpone c
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8. lower the cost a
9. behind schedule b
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Discuss these questions with a partner.

• Who should be in a project team? Manager, money, advisor, associates

• What should the project manager do if a project costs more than the budget limit?
• Why do companies use consultants? Skills, experts, experience, give new perspective
• Do you think most projects finish as planned? never
• What should the project manager do if a project is behind schedule?

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 Work in pairs and follow these instructions.

Student A: You are the project manager. Read your situation card and answer these questions.
What is your company?
What is your project?
What are the problems? What are the reasons for the problems?
What are you doing about the problems to make sure the project is a success?

Student B: You are the CEO. Read your situation card and think of some questions to ask.

Meet and discuss the situation.

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Hire a consultant
Find people to fill the positions
Offer employees flexible hours and better pay
Change the supplier or renegotiate with current supplier

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Make sure you have
• downloaded the *.pdf with this
presentation
• saved the Zoom Chat

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 Complete the Progress activities online.

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