Socializing

Speed networking

Speed networking allows a large number of professionals to make contact with each other in a very short space of time.

Socializing after work

If you want to socialize with your colleagues after work, you'll need to use the right expressions. In this exercise, we test your knowledge of informal language for socializing. What do you know?

Kontakte knüpfen und pflegen

When we do business with people from other cultures, we share a common purpose — getting the work done — so we usually know what to talk about. But what happens when you spend time with foreign colleagues or business partners outside of the office? Intercultural communications expert Robert Gibson is here to talk about socializing.

Taxi!

I used to see taxi journeys as a necessary evil and remain silent, hoping that drivers wouldn’t burden me with their crazy opinions about current events. The more I travel, however, the more I am now fascinated by taxis and see the drivers as a rich source of information.

früher betrachtete ich

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Business Spotlight 4/2009

Do you have the verbal skills to talk about the environment and other green subjects? Find out by doing our special test in Business Spotlight 4/2009. Here's an overview of the main features in this issue – and of our whole range of language-learning products.

Business Spotlight 4/2009

LANGUAGE
Do you have the verbal skills to talk about the environment and other green subjects? Find out in our special test

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Improve your cross-cultural skills

BUSINESS SKILLS
The importance of being positive

Business Spotlight Audio 4/2009

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Socializing around the world

GOING GREEN
Practise your vocabulary

BUSINESS SKILLS
The importance of being positive

Ending the conversation

Don't just walk away when you finish a conversation. It's important to leave the person you were talking to with a positive impression. In this video, Bob Dignen gives advice on the best way to end a conversation.

Listening skills

Small talk is not only about talking — you should listen carefully to your business partner, too. Bob Dignen demonstrates how effective the right listening techniques can be in the fourth video in our series of five on socializing.

Technik, Methode

gesellschaftlicher Umgang

Building rapport

Peope who have rapport are on the same wavelength, explains Bob Dignen in his third video on socializing. What is rapport? How can you build rapport with your colleagues and business partners?

gute Beziehung zueinander

Aufbau und Pflege von Kontakten

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