Cross-Functional Collaboration

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: 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.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Translate between tribes

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Breaking Down Team Silos

    Read a 321-word text about Breaking Down Team Silos

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Cross-Functional Collaboration Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: A model trade-off discussion

    Read a 386-word text about A model trade-off discussion

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: collaboration vocabulary

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the function to what it optimises for

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Practice: Cross-Functional Discussion

    Role-play: You're leading a meeting with engineering, design, and marketing to decide whether to delay a feature launch to fix performance issues. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: land the trade-off

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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Cross-functional collaborationSilosEmbedded collaborationProduct managerTrade-off discussionShared metricsCross-functional reviewEmpathy

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