SUCCESS

•Think in a hobby or a leisure activity you have.

•How can you make of it a successful business?

PREFIXES

A prefix is a word part added to the beginning of a word to create a word with a different meaning.

PREFIX MEANING

Overproduce

Misinterpret

Out-vote

Co-founder

Renamed

Ultra-sophisticated

Ex-president

Deactivate

Underselling

Too much

Better / more than

Badly

Extremely

Former

Opposite

With

Too little

Again

The elusive dream of business success captures the imagination of aspiring and existing business owners everywhere. A vision of flowing profits, industry respect,

thrilled customers, and a balanced life. This vision is only possible by developing habits that drive business success. Take the time to learn the 7 habits of business success.

1. Cultivate Inner Networks

2. Customer Centric

3. Humble Honesty

4. Adaptability

5. Opportunity Focused

6. Finding A Better Way

7. Balanced Lifestyle Management

SUCCESS

JOB SATISFACTION

Finally… when you are out of school!

Now…

I want a job with flexible scheduleWell paid

30 days vacationsMedical insurance

High bonusesAnd a manager position

Are you satisfied with your current job?

JOB SATISFACTION

What would motivate you to work harder?

•Bonus

•Bigger salary

•Commission

•Praise

•More responsibility

•Threat of redundancy

•Hard-working boss

•Good colleagues

•Working for a successful company

•A better working environment

•Promotion opportunities

•Perks or fringe benefits

ML5.1

1. Most people like to have control over their work and therefore put _____ near the top of their list of motivating factors.

2. Dealing with _____ is a very time consuming, demotivaing problem which affects large businesses and organizations.

3. Overwork can lead to _____ if not spotted early.

4. Many job satisfaction studies, perhaps surprisingly, have found that often _____ is not the most motivating factor.

5. Offering _____ rather than a salary increase can be a way of retaining employees in traditional high staff turnover industries.

6. He received very generous _____ when he left the company.

7. One way of managers monitor and develop staff loyalty is by using _____ interviews.

1. Bureaucracy

2. Autonomy

3. Burnout

4. Pay

5. Appraisal

6. Perks

7. Golden handshake

a) assessment

b) remuneration

c) fringe benefits

d) severance package

e) independence

f) breakdown

g) red tape

1 / g

2 / e

3 / f4 / b

5 / a

6 / c

7 / d

JOB SATISFACTION

HOW TO FRUSTRATE YOUR EMPLOYEES IN 10 SECONDS

Ask your good employees to do

a better job!

Cancel posadas, trips and

some events

Having a terrible cafeteria service

Give employees ridiculous incentives

Tell your employees…

•We have to cancel the posada this year

•You have to do your best to complete objectives

•We can’t change our cafeteria service

• We will give you a healthy food plan as an incentive

Give reasons for each point

When you say…

Employees hear…

•The posada was canceled The company is acting cheap

•Your performance has been monitored They are firing people!

•Some benefits will be taken away They will reduce benefits

•Overtime is being re-evaluated The company is in trouble

PASSIVE VOICE

It’s an structure we use it to inform, to report as the important in the sentence is the object or situation.

STRUCTURE Object VERB VERBSituation TO BE IN PAST PARTICIPLE+ +

Could be in any time

Verb TO BESIMPLE PRESENT

PRESENT CONTINOUSPERESENT PERFECT

SIMPLE PASTPAST CONTINOUS

FUTURE WILLCAN, COULD, ETC…

am / is / aream / is / are beinghave or has been

was / werewas / were being

will becan, could, etc.. be

•The posada was canceled

•Your performance has been monitored

•Some benefits will be taken away

•Overtime is being re-evaluated

•Overtime is well paid

• New perks should be given to employees

PASSIVE VOICE

The company well pays overtime

The company is re-evaluating overtime

They canceled the posada

H.R. has monitored your performance

They will take away some benefits

The company should give new perks to employees

S. present

present

Present Cont.

Presentcontinous

S. past

past

Present Perfect

Presentperfect

future

future