# LEADERSHIP TIPS from Amazon - Business English lesson

An episode of [Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616739393), 5 May 2025, 28 min.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2022761/episodes/17104731-leadership-tips-from-amazon-business-english-lesson.mp3

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Business English coach Chris explores Amazon’s leadership tips to help international professionals improve their speaking and communication skills in English. Whether you’re a manager, team leader, or aspiring professional, you’ll learn how to talk about leadership, ownership, and customer obsession, and confidence and in a natural and native sounding way. We break down key business vocabulary and phrasal verbs like touch on, in the loop, and hold up to scrutiny. You’ll hear real-world examples of native English expressions used in the workplace, so you can speak more naturally at work, whether you're in IT support, HR, or customer service. If you're a non-native English speaker looking to improve your professional English, this episode is full of practical advice, natural phrases, and mindset tips to help you sound more confident and capable at work. Whether you’re preparing for interviews, meetings, or leadership roles, this podcast is your guide to effective, fluent English communication. Also, if you're preparing for the IELTS, TOEFL, or Cambridge English tests then you should find a lot of useful vocabulary in here too! This podcast is all about helping you to communicate better, in English, at work. I work with international English speakers from around the world who use English, at work, as a second or third language and I hope that I can bring some of the ideas, vocabulary, and grammar, from those sessions, to you in this podcast. Don’t forget that my full time job is helping international professionals who use English at work to improve their communication skills. So, if you need English to do your job but don’t speak it natively then maybe we can work together to help you to achieve your language goals. 🔗 Book a 1-to-1 coaching session at www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com 📱 Follow on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more tips: @BreakoutBusinessEnglish Support the show Book a coaching session with me at: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com

## Transcript

Welcome to the breakout business English podcast. Where I help you to communicate better at work, in English. Hi everyone, my name is Chris and I am a Business English coach. Thank you so much for listening and for your time today. And today's topic is leadership. Specifically, We're going to be exploring... Three of Amazon's leadership. Principles. That's the... Big, famous. Tech company Amazon. And they're principles, their ideas, their Guiding Theory for Leadership. In last week's episode, we touched on Amazon's leadership principles. I mentioned the idea that leaders in Amazon are expected to have a bias for action. That is to say that they prefer to make quick decisions. They prefer to try things out and see if they work, rather than spend a lot of time thinking about their choices. I mentioned that there were 13 Amazon Leadership Principles in last week's episode, and yeah, I have to admit, I got that one wrong. There are 16. Today? I want to take a look at. Three of the most interesting ideas from this list. And three ideas that I think can be applied to any role in order to improve anyone's performance and mindset at work. These 16 ideas, yes, 16 ideas are all really useful in any industry.So although we're doing three today, if you like this kind of format and you like going through these principles, then let me know and I can continue this into further episodes. Let's start, however, with a quick piece of vocabulary. Right at the beginning of this podcast, only a few seconds ago, I used the phrasal verb to touch on. To touch on. I said that we touched on Amazon's leadership principles. Do you know what I meant by this? To touch on something. Is to briefly mention it. To talk about something, but not to go into detail. We might say that I... Mentioned it In passing. That's your first piece of vocabulary for today. And with that said... Let's get started. Our first tip from this list is about ownership. And Amazon describe it like this: They say that leaders

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