Driving Strategic Projects
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A C1 business English lesson focusing on six advanced phrasal verbs for planning initiatives, launching products in stages, overcoming setbacks, and driving projects to completion.
This C1 module equips adult professionals with advanced phrasal verbs required to manage project lifecycles, articulate strategic direction, and navigate operational hurdles.
Designed for European corporate environments, the tasks emphasize professional precision, dynamic project leadership, and clear stakeholder alignment.
The student link contains a listening task and the transcript, and a new interactive task. They can be assigned before class for a flipped class, or as additional homework practice.
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Scenario Background: Two senior project directors in a Madrid fintech firm are reviewing their launch strategy for an enterprise software platform across Southern Europe.
Lucia: We need to draw up the formal service level agreement for our European partners by the end of the week.
Henrik: Agreed. Once that’s finalised, we can map out the transition schedule or each regional team in detail.
Lucia: What about the platform release itself? Are we still on track to roll out the software across our regional hubs in stages?
Henrik: Yes. Although we encountered unexpected budget constraints last month, executive leadership decided to press on with the expansion regardless.
Lucia: That’s reassuring news. I wanna make sure we see this implementation through to the very end despite the tight timeline.
Henrik: Absolutely. We still have a few minor technical glitches to iron out with the engineering team, but we should be ready by Friday.
