Business English Podcast | Corporate Finance | Business Development: The Balance Scorecard

In order to have a good view or the organization's performance, you need to look at different areas of your business (or business in general) that affect each other. Finance, customers, internal processes, and learning and growth are all part of it.  If one suffers, all suffer. Here are a number of stories and questions...

Arsenio’s Business English Podcast | Season 8: Episode 21 | The Language of Meetings

When it comes to the decision making process and holding meetings, there's a set agenda for you to follow. In this agenda will be objectives, priorities, data analysis, alternatives, pros + cons, and making the final decision. However, how can you open up sentences in these six categories? In today's episode, I'll give you a...

Business English Podcast | Corporate Finance | Cash-flow Crisis

In business, there are certain ways to generate income when you're dealing with a crisis. From a personal perspective, it sparks that creativity within one. However, we don't always want to wait for a crisis to happen for us to be creative and act. In today's podcast, we look at different ways, creativity, and what...

Arsenio’s Business English Podcast | Season 7: Episode 31 | Dealing with Emotional Blackmail, Threats & Rudeness

OMG! Have any of you ever been threatened in your job? I still remember, as I've said so many times before, that particular Saturday when a headteacher (even without power) said to me, "if you want to continue working here, we're going to have to have a meeting."  I had shivers go down my spine...

When People Get What They Want From You…

Boy, how often does this happen? Whether it's some of my coaching students, getting their score before disappearing (and not telling me what their score was); or the language institutes that I've worked for who get what they want (financially) before disappearing.  How can you protect yourself from other's agendas? In today's podcast, I'll give...

Arsenio’s Business English Podcast | Investment | In-Company Interviews: Diversifying Your Assets

Think about, when COVID had first erupted last year, how prepared were you -- financially? Good chance that you were on the outside looking in. Meaning, when everything shut down, you put all your eggs into one basket (your main income stream) and then POOF! Gone! How about the second, third, fourth, etc.....times that the...

Arsenio’s Business English Podcast | Investment | Client Instruction

Have you ever made a bad decision? After you ever steered someone in a direction that you regretted -- in any facet of your life? See, when clients lose money and when things go back, people look for an outlet to blame most times. In today's podcast, we talk about that and saw awesome breakdowns...

Arsenio’s Business English Podcast | Season 7: Episode 8 | How to Initiate Conversations in Business Settings

Whether you're at a seminar or your first-ever meeting, how do you initiate a conversation? Most of you find it daunting to do so and believe me, I was that same person back in my freshman year of high school. This was with my BAND MATES! Now, I'm a phenomenal conversationalist because I look at...

Arsenio’s Business English Podcast | Season 7: Episode 5 | Is Being Lazy Good Long-term?

A ridiculous author wrote a book with one of his children in regards to "being lazy is great" and how "lazing around is great for long-term health." Well, COVID begs to differ. News media around the world was telling us to stay home and not move when in actuality, brisk walks help strengthen the immune...

Business English Podcast Interviews | Ebru from Turkey | Being Trilingual, Deflecting Perfectionism, & Growth Mindset

I was invited into a group full of Business English Podcast trainers/coaches, and I was fortunate enough to meet Ebru -- a business English trainer in the UK.  Oh, there's so much in this podcast, from her moving to the UK, to learning a lot from her father that inspired her to establish the Growth...