Effective People Think Simply
A B2 video lesson on Kathleen Eisenhardt's talk about using a few simple rules for better decisions, with gist and detail listening, vocabulary work and a project-review meeting role-play. Suits managers and professionals who make or review decisions about processes and projects.
Print-ready A4 PDF · teacher's notes and answer key included
What's inside
- Warm-up discussion
- Vocabulary matching
- Multiple-choice gist listening
- Gap-fill listening for detail
- Discussion using target expressions
- Role-play
- Action plan and reflection
By the end, learners can
- Identify the main points and key details of a talk on simple rules and decision-making
- Use ten topic words and expressions about objectives, bottlenecks, evidence and stopping rules
- Explain a project's objective and bottleneck and propose simple rules
- Agree a stopping rule for a project in a review meeting
- Plan how to apply simple-rule thinking in their own work
Skills: Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary · Writing
Suits: Managers · Project managers · Executives · Team leaders
Language practised: Clarifying objectives · Identifying problems · Proposing rules and solutions · Challenging unnecessary processes · Using evidence to support a view · Justifying recommendations · Agreeing a decision as a group
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