Every company has silos. This B2 lesson gives learners the language to talk about them and to fix them: how to agree on one shared goal, rank priorities, name a trade-off and escalate when two teams cannot agree. Here is a free worksheet on the same topic.
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Level: B2 (upper intermediate) · Focus: Break down silos: agree on one shared goal and talk about priorities clearly
What’s in the worksheet
- 8 words and phrases: silo, misalignment, shared goal, trade-off, bottleneck, take precedence over, sign off on, time-boxed
- Language for stating, ranking and checking priorities
- Negotiating a trade-off with “If we focus on X, we will have to delay Y”
- A role-play: the alignment meeting between two teams
- Answer key on the last page
How it went in class
The role-play works best when the two teams genuinely want different things: one wants to launch, the other wants to fix customer complaints first. The rule is that the meeting cannot end until they agree one time-boxed goal and decide who signs off.
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