Intensive Excise Six

Part Two

 

1. Are you clear about the following titles’ responsibilities?

 

Title

Responsibility

Advertising Manager

Develops, implements, and manages the company's advertising strategy, both from a business, sales and technical perspective; Initiates and manages discussion and sales with sponsor and agencies; Manages a group of advertising sales representatives.   

Sales Director

Develops, implements, and manages the company's advertising strategy, both from a business, sales and technical perspective. Spends time negotiating agreements with outside sales representatives.  managing the development of sales materials.

Finance Director

Develops annual program budget, conducts periodic budget review and ensures divisional and departmental functions adhere to established budgetary guidelines and implementation procedures; Coordinates various financial functions including financial accounting, budgeting, transaction processing, payroll, purchasing and financial reporting.

Catering Manager

Plans, organizes and manages the food and beverage services of organizations and businesses both inside and outside the hospitality industry, with the aim of achieving good quality at low cost with high standards of hygiene and customer satisfaction.

2. Spot Dictation:

1.       Well it’s quite interesting, isn’t it? I mean, overall you’re never going to please everyone always. I think one of the main benefits is perhaps something _______________________. Earnest, I wasn’t. And that’s _________ people with different roles, different jobs _______________. Sure my responsibility is to ______________________. Everyone wants a ____, needs help with the ________. I am always hearing about the problems. Never good things, of course, with the ________. Here we’re sharing experiences, different viewpoints, bringing in the ideas, which reflect our different roles. Then again that’s maybe a problem in itself because I really don’t see how I’m going to ____ all this in my ____. I’m sure that next week it’ll all have __________________________.

 

2.       Frankly I wonder if my time ___________ been better spent back in the office. Well, I don’t want to sound negative. Maybe it’s just me. I grant you there’s some ___________ going around. _____________ really. All these visions of what could really be happening, pictures of the possible future, and more have you. But, at the end of the day, we’ll be back at the same___________. And I’ll be ________ and _______ around, and still be expected to do _________ at once. So if I’m honest, I’m _________ how all these __________ are really going to help me in my job. A letter is still a letter, isn’t’ it? Mind you, I’m not saying it’s not __________. In some ways.

 

3.       I feel very _________ and on top of everything it’s a great way to meet everyone. It’s really helping my confidence. The sessions on technology have been interesting because I know so little about it. They’ve told me I’ll get more on that as time goes by. And actually my problem’s not really that, because, well, what I need ______________ is some kind of _________, some kind of feeling of ____________. You know ______________. I don’t know __________ in five years’ time, you see. So I’m not quite sure what I need to know now. That’s why it’s a bit ________ that each lecture seems so _______, so ________? I’d like a __________ to be _______.

 

4. It’s going pretty smoothly I’d say all in all, we’ve had worse, we’ve had better, and given that we had to put the ___________ tighter at a pretty short notice. Having said that though, I am not at all sure _______________. I don’t know, I think half the problem is people come to something like this with so much hope. I mean they ______ the world is going to change overnight. And of course _________ is that simple. I hear them complaining, but not about ________, ______________, that is not quite what they want, too _______, too _______, and so on. Anyway, the ______ and the ________ seem to have gone down all right. And I suppose _________________ worry about.

5. Yes I think what is being worth it is worth it. It’s difficult of course _________ the costs and benefits, the time lost from the office compared to what I am ___________, but I’ve always said our staff, our people are our biggest _____. So anything that _______________ must be a ______ in itself. Of course much will depend on the __________________, which I hope the ________________ can ________________ reasonably soon. Otherwise I won’t really _______________ to know if I did make the right choice. My main ____________ at this stage is that I don’t see _____________ on the system, on the IT side of things. And that’s a great pity, because it’s vital that we explore our ____________________________ to get the best out of them. I want a company that is right ____________.

 

Part Three

 

1. Spot dictation:

23.

I suppose because they push profits up.

Yeah, well, not exactly. I mean, yes, ultimately that can happen. But it’s more if you get an efficient scheme going when it runs well. Then the _________ is people _____________, that they ____________, so they get ____________ around the place.

 

24.

Um, certainly you’ve got to be seen to respond, but actually, the first thing, crucially, to acknowledge it. I’d have thought we could use the __________ for that. Put the suggestions on it so people see immediately that it goes somewhere.

 

25.

But I do think, whatever level they are at, that I am ________________ the research and development people.

I think ____________ there. Yes. I mean R&D could be setting their own agenda because they could just ________ putting forward existing ideas and then getting extra for them.

 

26.

I don’t think we can _____ the time. It happens on too many _____. Why don’t we just say we ______ the _____ of the idea ______________ to the company and pay a ___________ of that right away?

So ________, for example.

Sounds _________.

 

27.

More chance of ________.

But we ______ make any promises. I am not even ___________ profit or sales _______ here. Just say an idea that they’ll _________ if they _____________ new ideas.

 

28.

Let’s start with Head Office, shall we? Or one of the regions?

Well, we’ve got to start _____________. How about the ________________ office?

Uh, and then spread to everywhere else later.

Right.

 

29.

What? Even by phone?

I see what you mean. Could be pretty ____________.

If we get a lot. Or ________?

Would be _______. They are simple and direct. In a box, maybe, in Reception.

But then we’ll be ____________ any people who don’t go in there.

True. Ok. They can _________ to us then. Well, I hope this is going to work.

__________. It’s not a question of whether it _____ but how well.

 

30.

We could just give an initial report on ________________ in the first month or something like that.

That’s the most ___________ game and should be enough to start with.