Business C1 · Unit 9 · Talent, culture & difficult conversations
9A. Threads that hold a team together
C1 · Advanced Business English · cohesion & reference
Unit 9 · Epigraph
"The pronoun you cannot resolve on Sunday is the sentence the rejected candidate will read back to you on Thursday."
Objectives
What you'll be able to do
- Build and defend a fully-resolved reference chain across a talent paragraph — every pronoun anchored, every substitution unpicked.
- Identify and remove orphan pronouns ('it', 'this', 'they', 'the team') that a rejected peer or a mediator would ask you to name.
- Replace unsafe substitutions ('so', 'one', 'the same', 'do so') with full references and dated sources.
- Deliver a difficult conversation in which every antecedent is, in advance, named — and the counterparty walks out knowing what was said and about whom.
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