Cost cutting

　　Your #pany has decided to try to reduce costs. You have been asked to investigate the possibility of cutting the financial costs of operating your department.

　　●Which are the areas where costs could be cut?

　　●What problems might arise from cutting costs?

　　Customer #plaints

　　Your manager is not satisfied with the way staff reacts to #plaints from clients about products or services. You have been asked to suggest how this could be improved.

　　●How the #pany can make effective use of will be available in the new office?

　　●What training will be needed for these jobs?

　　Staff recruitment

　　Your factory urgently needs to recruit a large number of temporary staff in order to fulfill an unexpected order. The staff needs to be ready to start work as soon as possible.

　　●What you need to do in order to find suitably skilled staff?

　　●What type of induction program the new staff will need before they start work?

　　Modernization Program

　　You work for a large #pany which has decided to introduce a program of modernization and improvement. You are involved in setting up this program.

　　●How to prepare staff for major changes within the #pany

　　●What other factors have to be considered when introducing major changes in a #pany

　　Language Courses Abroad

　　Your #pany has offered you the opportunity of attending a six-month English language course abroad. You have to decide whether to accept, and are therefore going to attend a meeting to find out more about the offer.

　　●What the advantages are of learning languages abroad

　　●What plans you will have to make for work and home if you go away for a long period

　　Potential Supplier

　　A potential supplier will soon be visiting you at your workplace. You think this supplier and the products or services they offer could be very important for the future of your #pany.

　　●What you need to find out about the supplier and the products or services before the visit

　　●How you could entertain the supplier the negotiations

　　Foreign Business Travel

　　Your #pany has decided that it needs to introduce a clear policy on foreign business travel. You have been asked to help draw up the guidelines.

　　●What the various reasons are why members of a #pany make business trips abroad

　　●In what ways a #pany might be affected if the number of foreign business trips was reduced

　　Company Directory

　　Your #pany is going to be included in an international directory of all the types of businesses operating in your country. You have been asked to write a brief profile of your #pany for the directory.

　　●What information you will include about your #pany

　　●How the directory would be useful to #panies