Team Communication & Culture
Lead meetings, give feedback, hire effectively, and build a strong team culture
Who it's for
Written for B1 (intermediate) students who handle everyday English and are ready for longer answers.
English for founders: pitches, investors, demos and startup vocabulary. More Startup English lesson plans
Skills it practises
- Speaking: discussion questionsevery lesson
- Vocabulary: a target word listevery lesson
- Reading: a text or news storyevery lesson
- Controlled practice: gap-fills, matching, sorting and moreevery lesson
- Role-play: a dialogue to act outevery lesson
- An answer framework to structure what they say1 of 8 lessons
Lessons
- Running All-Hands MeetingsGoal: open an all-hands with honest metrics, a plan attached to the bad news, specific recognition, and a Q&A that people actually dare to use.1 hr 14 minFree
- Effective StandupsGoal: give a sharp yesterday/today/blockers update and facilitate the standup — gentle interrupts, discussions taken offline, every blocker leaving as a named action item.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Giving Constructive FeedbackGoal: deliver difficult feedback with SBI — camera-recordable facts, unseen impact, a forward question — and survive the defensive response without retreating or attacking.1 hr 13 minOutline
- Hiring ConversationsGoal: run a behavioural interview — one 'tell me about a time' opener, three digging follow-ups — then deliver an evidence-based debrief separating must-haves from nice-to-haves.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Onboarding New Team MembersGoal: deliver a day-one welcome with a buddy, a 30-60-90 plan with one testable milestone per phase, and explicit permission to be confused.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Remote Team CommunicationGoal: write an async decision request — context, options, recommendation, time-zone-aware deadline — so the reader can act without asking anything back.1 hr 14 minOutline
- Cross-Functional CollaborationGoal: facilitate a cross-functional trade-off — concerns in numbers, each side translated to the other, the decision tied to a shared metric, both sides leaving with something real.1 hr 7 minOutline
- Building Company CultureGoal: present two core values that pass the four-part test — behaviour, cost, a decision caused, a sustaining ritual — instead of poster platitudes.1 hr 14 minOutline
How to use it in a lesson
- Lessons run 67 to 74 minutes, with a timing on every stage, so you can see before you start what fits your slot.
- Start with "Running All-Hands Meetings": its whole plan is on this site, stage by stage, with the target vocabulary, free to read and to teach from on any video call.
- For a shorter slot, skip a practice stage or cut the discussion short: the stages are a guide, not a script.
Teach Team Communication & Culture with your student
Lesson 1 of this course is free. A free account opens it in the interactive player, and the rest of the course is included with Starter. Teaching it live with your student in the Tuton classroom starts with a 7-day free trial.
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