Julie Huang

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Julie Huang
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27 March 2009 Obama I read the Financial Times
before other people read the Financial Times.
Now its trendy and everybody carries around a
Financial Times.
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Advanced
Upper-intermediate
Intermediate
Pre-intermediate
Elementary
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Market Leader Best Best
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• Which of these situations are the
• most stressful for you?
• Can you add any others?
• Going to the dentist
• Queuing in the supermarket
• Being stuck in a traffic
• Going to a hairdresser
• Finding a place to park
• Organizing a party
• Having an interview
• Making a speech
• Flying

Listening
Starting up
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A
What do you think are the main causes of stress
at work?
Listening
B
C
D
In you opinion, which of the following apply more
to men or to women. Why?
E
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Reading
Vocabulary
Discussion
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Language review

• Present perfect tense
• A time leads up to now.
• No definite moment or period
• in the past is mentioned.
• 2. Past tense
• Completed actions happened
• in the past
• A definite moment in the past

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Skills

• Useful language
• Making Suggestions
• Giving opinions
• Agreeing
• Disagreeing

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Consultants findings
Task
Background
Memo
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Task-based Learning
Process
Purpose
Language
Product
a language learning theory based on real-life
language use
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Process approach to skills
Product
Process
Developing effective skills
Case Study

• Study how to listen, speak, read write
• Grade training in communication strategies
• Encourage success and reflection on the
  communication process
• Integrated skills practice

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Consultants findings

Business Problems
Background
Common sense Expertise
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• Further staff cuts
• 2. The new HR Director
• 3. Space problem
• 4. Heavy workload
• 5. Pressure from the redundancy process

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• Stress Management Consultants
• Who are they?
• Why are they involved?
• What is their stand in the project?

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Business brief
burn out
stressed out
rat race
treadmill
downshifting
stress Industry
stress counsellor
job satisfaction
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Stress counsellor Stress management
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• Stress Management Consultants
• Who are they?
• Why are they involved?
• What is their stand in the project?

They are professionals normally with a therapist
license and corporate working experience
Employers pay them to provide solutions for
workplace stress.
They need to maintain a unbiased stand and work
out win-win solutions for both the employer and
employees.
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redundancy employee assist
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• Memo
• To Managing Director, GVM
• From Julie Huang
• Date 23 May 2009
• Subject Stress Management
• A meeting of the Stress Management Team
• was held on 22 May 2009. The following
• recommendations were made

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• Further staff cuts
• Call for meeting in HR department
• Brief on further workforce cut in the company
  in the department
• Guarantee good lay-off package for
• redundancies
• Internal transfer program
• Encouraging existing talents

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• 2.The new HR Director
• Understanding the stress of HR Director
• Consultation on HR Director
• Improvement of management style
• Encouraging HR Director to solve problems with
  his /her team

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• 3.Space problems
• Introducing open office working manners
• talking volume/ picking up phone/taking
  message/no meeting in open office/use of emails
• Set up small telephone conference rooms

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• 4. Heavy workload
• To deliver recognition and appreciation for the
  work done
• Preparation for outsourcing HR functions
• Training for staff on Time Management,
  Prioritizing and Delegating
• Corporate gym membership

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• The above are our suggestions for the HR
• department. We certainly welcome your input
• and comment on the above. We will be
• pleased to offer our assistance to action any
• of these suggestions.
• Best Regards
• Julie Huang
• Head of Stress Management Team

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• Real Business Leaders content
• Task based learning
• Process approach to skills

Market Leaders Tomorrow
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G enerate interest
E ncourage involvement
N otice improvement
I ntegrate knowledge skills
U tilizing web resource
S uggest examples
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For the teachersComplete lesson guides
activities
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• Teachers Resource Book
• Overview of the course
• Detailed teaching notes
• Business briefing
• Text bank( extra reading texts)
• Resource bank (skill developing)
• Audio scripts

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For the students Practice File
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• Students Practice File
• Useful language box
• Text models
• Writing syllabus
• Five tests( self-test)
• Audio materials( CD)

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Julie Huang