# Leave me alone! management styles and paying for success - Business English vocabulary lesson An episode of [Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616739393), 10 Sep 2025, 27 min. Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2022761/episodes/17819499-leave-me-alone-management-styles-and-paying-for-success-business-english-vocabulary-lesson.mp3 Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of our series on management styles we're looking at transactional management and laissez faire management. We talk about the details of each style, the situations that you might find it useful to use each style, and some vocabulary, phrases, and words that you can use to communicate in these styles. So if you're a manager who speaks English at work and is a non-native English speaker, or maybe you speak English as a second language and you just want to understand your manager better, hopefully this podcast episode will help you. ๐Ÿ”— Book a one-to-one coaching or tutoring session with me at breakoutbusinessenglish.com ๐ŸŽ Use code PODCAST30 for 30% off your first coaching session Do you want me to analyse your English on YouTube? Contact me here: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com/contact Do you want to see what I do? Click here: https://youtu.be/1jpP2nCQDi0?si=GcFRHMZqCLPg5Dr- Also, if you're studying for the IELTS, TOEFL, or Cambridge English tests and exams then you might find some of the vocabulary in this episode really useful. 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. Donโ€™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 donโ€™t speak it natively then maybe we can work together to help you to achieve your language goals. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Donโ€™t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and request future topics! ๐Ÿ“… New episodes released every Wednesday ๐Ÿ“บ Watch vocabulary breakdowns and coaching analysis on the Breakout Business English YouTube channel Today's examples: - If you think you've got a good idea, feel free to run with it, don't worry about getting me to sign off on it. - I want you to use your initiative and follow your gut. I'm here if you need anything. - I'm going to take a step back on this project and I'll only step in if something goes wrong. - I want to make this worth your while so there are extra vacation days up for grabs for anyone who hits all of their KPIs. - If the floor as a whole is able to achieve a 93% sale we all get an additional 1.3 million dollars a piece. #businessenglish #englishtips #englishlesson #englishclass Smells Like Humans Like listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show Book a coaching session with me at: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com ## Chapters - 10:02 \[Ad\] Smells Like Humans - 10:50 (Cont.) Leave me alone! management styles and paying for success - Business English vocabulary lesson ## 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've personally worked with over 1,000 international professionals just like you to improve the way that they communicate at work in English. Thank you so much for listening today and thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. And. Today is part two. Of our deep dive. Into management Styles. Last week, we took a look at two very common ways to think about and approach managing a team. These were... Democratic management and Autocratic Management. Today we're going to talk about some Maybe more interesting... And definitely less often discussed management styles. These are... Laissez-faire management? And... Transactional. Management. And if you can hear a dog snoring in the background, well, that's because there's a dog snoring somewhere. In the background, it is two o'clock in the morning here. This is me working through the night to try and get this podcast out at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning. I don't always work through the night to get this done. Usually I'm a little more organized, but it's been a slightly crazy week.So while I'm not sleeping, well, my dog definitely is. And you may be able to hear him. While I'm recording. Okay, so let's start with laissez-faire or laissez-faire. I don't think it's fair of me to start the podcast with such a big, heavy French phrase like this and not explain it. This is a piece of vocabulary. That you might be familiar with if you've studied economics. Or indeed if you work in the field of economics. This is a French phrase. Which basically means to allow someone to do something without monitoring or supervising them. To allow them to do whatever they want.So this is spelled 'lese' L-A-I-N. S-S-E-Z. Bear. F-A-I-L. All right. E. If you want to, search for it yourself. 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