02 Mar How To Deal With Interruptions during a presentation or meeting
Can you actually recover a presentation after someone's phone goes off and the whole room loses focus?...
B1 – Intermediate
02 Mar Your memory is lying to you. Here’s how.
Can you trust your own memory of how a key business decision went down?...
27 Feb why does Japan work so hard?
Is "dying for your company" a metaphor in your culture, or a literal risk in someone else's?...
27 Feb three rules for a better work life balance
Do you actually have clear boundaries between your work life and personal life, or do you just tell yourself you do?...
03 Feb Explainer: What is the ‘metaverse’?
Posted at 12:14h
in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Other, Popular Culture, Science, Technology
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...
03 Feb The happiness formula?
Can you actually define what makes you happy, or do you just know it when you feel it?...
30 Nov Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
What if the thing quietly destroying your productivity is not laziness or poor time management, but your own success?...
29 Nov How could veganism change the world?
Posted at 14:17h
in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Environment, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, The Economist
Could you actually calculate the environmental cost of your lunch today?...
29 Nov Why People Send Terrible Emails
Do you actually know how your emails land emotionally, or are you just guessing?...
24 Nov Corporate responsibility? Don’t make me laugh
Is your company's CSR programme actually changing anything, or is it just expensive branding with a sustainability logo slapped on top?...