lavender流利说商务英语Level5unit1part3

2021年1月9日发(作者：丁声树)
Lesson 1 Balancing work and life
To integrate
To integrate something means to make it part of a whole.
In order to have enough time for yourself during the week, you’ll need to integrate personal
life into your schedule.
To balance
To balance means to make different things equal in value and importance.
If a team’s workload is balanced, everyone will do a similar amount of work.
To prioritize
To prioritize tasks means to rank them in order of importance.
By prioritizing your work, your will know what need to be completed first.
To modify
To modify something means to make minor changes to improve it.
After a workflow has been created, it may be modified to improve its efficiency.

Lesson 2 Negative factors
When employees work long hours and have no time to relax, they may lose morale.
But low morale may be caused by other factors than stress.
Here are some reasons why employees become unmotivated at work.
Feel undervalued
If someone feels undervalued, they feel they are not valued by others.
When an employee has work hard, but thinks that their efforts have been ignored, they may
feel undervalued.
It can be difficult to motivate employee who feel the work they do doesn’t matter.
Conflicting value
Values are ideas that people believe are important, such honesty.
When an employee’s value are not the same as their company’s or job’s, conflict can occur.
If someone values honesty, they may feel uncomfortable if they need to exaggerate the truth.
Task ambiguity
Task ambiguity refers to a lack of understanding about how your work should be done.
If a manager often gives his team incomplete directions, it will likely lead to ambiguity.
Unless they know what is expected of them, employees may feel that they can’t do their job
well.
Lacking of career path
Career path refers to opportunities for advancement within a company.
New skills and responsibilities can encourage employees to stay motivated.


Lesson 3 Balancing work and life
To overwhelm
When someone has been overwhelmed, they have been given too much to do.
It can be difficult balancing work and personal time, when you constantly feel overwhelmed
by your job.
To distract