25 Important Phrases for the Workplace
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What is the episode about and who is the host?
Today's English lesson will be pure gold for you if you're speaking English in the workplace, if you're working remotely with an American company. I know these phrases will help you in your everyday English. In today's lesson, I'm gonna teach you 25 phrases that are so common to use. You'll hear them every day and you can start using them after listening to this lesson as well. My name's Kayla. I could be your English teacher if you visit my website. Englishwithkayla.com. Sign up for my monthly membership there. Each week you'll receive a new English lesson with no advertisements. You'll receive the notes that will help you understand the lesson deeper. You can ask me questions in the community, and you can even take the quizzes to make sure that you are understanding what you're learning.
I can't wait to see you there, but let's get started with the lesson.
How do native speakers use “circle back” and “touch base” in meetings?
We're gonna start with some of the most common phrases that you'll hear on a daily basis. Daily basis. This phrase in the corporate environment is used all the time. It's circle back. Check and circle back. Have you heard this phrase? This phrase means that you're going to check in with someone at a later time. Or you're going to check in with them about a topic later in the conversation, meeting, or discussion. Some ways you might hear this phrase use is during a meeting or conference call or a Zoom call, you might ask a question and the leader of the call might say, I don't know the answer right now. Let me circle back to it later when I have the answer to this question. Or that's a really important topic.
Let's circle back and make sure we have time to go over all the things in the meeting first. So you're basically returning to the conversation or returning to the subject that the person brought up later. And for this phrase to circle back to something, you can mean just literally later in this conversation, later in this meeting, later in this day, or it could be let's circle back at the end of the month to this, meaning let's check in again at that time. A similar phrase if you're going to Touch base with someone.
Like Touch base.
This is used all the time in the business place and in personal conversations. This just means that you're going to have a really brief conversation just to kind of make contact with someone. Or check in with them about a plan. For instance, you might be talking to your friend and it's Monday and you kind of are talking about the weekend, but you might say, Let's touch base on Friday and talk about our plans for Saturday. This just means, you know, we'll come into contact again. We'll have a brief conversation later. You might also use this phrase telling someone, you know, can you touch base with the customer? This just means can you contact them really quickly and make sure, you know. It's going to be a brief conversation, not a lengthy
Detailed discussion. Sometimes we just send an email saying, Hey, I just wanted to touch base. Is everything going okay? This means I just wanted to make a quick email. I don't want to take a lot of your time. So this phrase, it also kind of softens making contact with someone like, hey, I'm not trying to be annoying. I'm just trying to touch base. I don't want to take a lot of your time. An interesting phrase that we use in English is to take something offline. Yeah.
He has to take it offline.
You might have heard someone say online meaning on the internet or connected to the internet. Like right now my computer is online. Or you might hear someone say, oh, my computer's offline right now, meaning it's not connected to the internet, maybe because of a technical difficulty or something is broken. This phrase, it's not quite related to the internet here. We're saying we're taking something offline. Usually when there's a big meeting or a conference call or a Zoom call, there's lots of people on it and you know there's an agenda of things that need to be discussed. And someone asks a question or starts talking about something that isn't relevant or important to the bigger group.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the episode about and who is the host?
0:00–0:46
2
How do native speakers use “circle back” and “touch base” in meetings?
0:46–5:25
3
When should you say “let’s take this offline” during a conference call?
5:25–8:15
4
Why is it important to be “on the same page” with coworkers?
8:15–10:33
5
How can you ask someone to “keep me posted” or “keep me in the loop”?
10:33–13:57
6
What does it mean to “follow up” or “get back to” someone after a discussion?
13:57–17:00
7
How do you ask for a project’s status, timeline, or next steps?
17:00–19:38
8
When should you say something is a “top priority”, you’re “swamped”, or you’ve hit a “roadblock”?
19:38–22:49