# BUILDING TRUST at work - Business English lesson with tips and vocabulary for managers.

An episode of [Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616739393), 20 Aug 2025, 26 min.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2022761/episodes/17702019-building-trust-at-work-business-english-lesson-with-tips-and-vocabulary-for-managers.mp3

Send us Fan Mail If you want to build trust with your colleagues, especially if you're a manager, and you speak English at work as a second language then this episode is for you. We talk about how you can sound more native and natural when speaking or writing English and how you can improve the trust between you and your team when doing this. We discuss the vocabulary, phrases, and idioms that we can use to build trust, we talk about vulnerability, and about making it easier for your direct reports to ask for help. We also look at some common grammar mistakes that non-native English speakers make when using this vocabulary and speaking in these professional situations. 🔗 Book a one-to-one coaching or tutoring session with me at breakoutbusinessenglish.com 🎁 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=DCKHKxe9dqhidx0o 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. 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. 👉 Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and request future topics! 📅 New episodes released every Wednesday 📺 Watch vocabulary breakdowns and coaching analysis on the Breakout Business English YouTube channel Today's examples: We’re all fallible, myself included. It took me months before I could get this right consistently. I dropped the ball on this, and that’s on me. I’ll be sure to keep my eye on the ball from now on. To say that I'm out of my depth would be putting it lightly, so you'll have to bear with me on this. Would you mind if I checked in with you later and see how you're getting on? Let me know if you need a hand with anything. If you get stuck on anything then give me a shout. #businessenglish #englishtips #englishlesson #englishclass 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 and work in English. Hi everyone, my name is Chris and I've personally worked with over 1000 international professionals just like you to improve the way that they communicate, at work in English. Thank you as always so much for listening. And today's topic is... How managers can build Trust. With the staff, Who they work with. One topic that I've found myself discussing a lot recently is trust. - How to build trust between colleagues, within teams, and across hierarchies. I spend around 30% of my time helping people prepare for job interviews. And a question that a lot of managers and leaders who I work with have been struggling with recently is... How do you build trust within your team? A very common question there to be asked in an interview for a management role where you're going to be managing people on a day-to-day basis is how do you build trust within your team?So. Today, I want to talk about building trust. We're going to talk about a couple of tools and techniques that we can use to build trust with the people who we manage. And the vocabulary that we can use to make this easy and help us to communicate these ideas. If you're a manager yourself, then hopefully you'll find these ideas useful. And if not, well, maybe you can leave a comment or a review telling me whether or not these are things that you see your management team doing. Let's start today with offering. And asking for help. One thing that colleagues can do when they trust their managers. Is to ask for help. When we trust our managers, we feel that we can say things like, I need help. I've made a mistake or maybe I'm not sure what I'm doing here. This is something that I've heard called psychological safety, or at least a component of psychological safety. It's a component of being able to come to work and not worry about what's going to happen if things go wrong. As managers, we want to hear this. We need

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