Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.
Aug 31, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Send us Fan Mail Communicating with your manager is important, and yet we rarely talk at work about how we're going to do it! In this podcast we're…
First, let's talk about content.
What is it that you're going to update your boss on? The important thing to remember here is that your priority should not necessarily be on what you think is important and what you want to talk about, but more what your boss wants to hear about and is interested in.
This is again about prioritizing that relationship, keeping your boss happy.
Mae Bush suggests that for her, this means you should talk about the accomplishments, the challenges, and how you're going to address them, And finally, what help you might need, what your boss can actually do to help you move through those challenges, overcome them, and in the end, get to and achieve more accomplishments.
Now, this is a great starting point, but one suggestion here is to have a direct conversation with your boss on this topic.
Present these three elements to your boss.
and ask something like, I think this is a structure to make sure that you get the most value out of my updates.
And I would love to get your input.
Many times communication at work fails because when we speak, we hope that we've communicated successfully.
We hope that the other person has understood what we've said and that our key points have really stood out.
However, this can often be solved even before it becomes a problem by talking about talking, by talking about communication.
asking your boss if this is the best way for the two of you to communicate.
Careers are so often built on how well we communicate, but we don't actually spend any time sometimes discussing the idea of communication and discussing how we communicate with our colleagues.
It's one of those skills that often we get our jobs and people just hope that we have this particular soft skill.
First, let's talk about content.
What is it that you're going to update your boss on? The important thing to remember here is that your priority should not necessarily be on what you think is important and what you want to talk about, but more what your boss wants to hear about and is interested in.
This is again about prioritizing that relationship, keeping your boss happy.
Mae Bush suggests that for her, this means you should talk about the accomplishments, the challenges, and how you're going to address them, And finally, what help you might need, what your boss can actually do to help you move through those challenges, overcome them, and in the end, get to and achieve more accomplishments.
Now, this is a great starting point, but one suggestion here is to have a direct conversation with your boss on this topic.
Present these three elements to your boss.
and ask something like, I think this is a structure to make sure that you get the most value out of my updates.
And I would love to get your input.
Many times communication at work fails because when we speak, we hope that we've communicated successfully.
We hope that the other person has understood what we've said and that our key points have really stood out.
However, this can often be solved even before it becomes a problem by talking about talking, by talking about communication.
asking your boss if this is the best way for the two of you to communicate.
Careers are so often built on how well we communicate, but we don't actually spend any time sometimes discussing the idea of communication and discussing how we communicate with our colleagues.
It's one of those skills that often we get our jobs and people just hope that we have this particular soft skill.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
