To be successful in today’s business world, it’s important that owners and businesspeople always find ways to make improvements to their company.
Carefully monitoring your company’s business operations is helpful to identify the things that can help you grow and make more money.
In this post, we will look at three multi-word phrases of Business English with the word “improvement” that you can use at your job.
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Room for Improvement
The first common Business English phrase that uses the word “improvement” is ‘room for improvement’. In a business context, it means that something is not up to standard and needs to get better or more efficient.
One example could be when a manager wants to tell an employee that they are doing okay, but could do better, such as, “You’ve gotten better with your English writing ability, but there is still room for improvement.”
Or, you might hear your boss say, “The marketing plan in 2023 outperformed 2022, but there is still room for improvement.”
In these examples, both the employee’s skills and the marketing plan are OK, but it’s possible to make them better.
Area of Improvement
The second two-word phrase of Business English with the word “improvement” is ‘area of improvement’. This refers to a certain topic, task, or skill that needs to get better.
It might be used at your performance review in sentences such as, “One area of improvement was in the way you made your workflow more efficient,” and, “Communicating confidently with leadership is one area of improvement for your team to focus on.”
These sentences indicate parts of the job where attention was spent or should be spent in order to achieve better outcomes.
Signs of Improvement
The final Business English phrase with the word “improvement” is ‘signs of improvement’. It expresses the idea that there is progress being made with something, and you can see that progress.
You might hear your supervisor at work use this phrase in a sentence such as, “I’ve seen definite signs of improvement with your English, so keep up the good work!” or, “Last year you were struggling with your speed when typing in English on Slack, but you’ve shown clear signs of improvement over the last couple of months.”
In both of these sentences, the Business English phrase refers to the employee making progress to improve something in an area where they were previously lacking.
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In this post, you learned about three phrases with the word ‘improvement’ which are commonly used in the workplace.
Learning and practicing them is one way to help improve your English communication abilities and have conversations more confidently with your colleagues.
So, what area of improvement in your Business English abilities do you need to focus on?
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Key multi-words vocabulary in this article:
- carefully monitoring
- up to standard
- achieve better outcomes
- struggling with
- previously lacking
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