# How to TALK ABOUT COMPLICATED INFORMATION at work - Business English lesson

An episode of [Breakout Business English - Improve your vocabulary and confidence using English at work.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1616739393), 25 Feb 2025, 26 min.

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Send us Fan Mail Do you need to discuss complex or complicated information at work? If English is not your native language and you find it difficult to sound natural when you communicate complex information at work then I have some great Business English vocabulary, grammar structures, and communication ideas for you. We talk about how to simplify the information you're communicating, how to make sure that everyone in the meeting or the presentation understands what you told them, and how to ask people to use more simply and understandable English. 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. If you’d like to book some time to meet with me through one to one video calls, then you can go to: https://www.breakoutbusinessenglish.com/start Also, I talk about an article in this podcast regarding the rule of threes. You can read that here: https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/3-rules-express-your-thoughts-clearly 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'm a Business English coach and tutor. Thank you so much for listening and today's topic is communicating complex and complicated information.So hopefully by the end of this podcast you will have some more ideas, some more vocabulary that you can use to improve the way that you communicate complex and complicated information at work. There are many times and many reasons during our careers that we might need to communicate complex and complicated information. Maybe you work with other teams around your organization who need to understand your work. Maybe you need to explain ideas to clients or customers so that they know what they're paying for. Or maybe you train people on new technologies and communicating concepts is your whole job. Personally I can say that at various points in my career all of those have applied to me. Today we're going to discuss some tips for effectively communicating complex information, some natural and native sounding vocabulary that we can use to do this and some ideas for how you can communicate better at work.So let's get started. Our first idea today is to simplify and then when you think you've simplified enough simplify again. Often when we're experts on what we're explaining we can end up making things more complicated than they need to be. I always remember a great scene from the movie Margin Call which maybe you've seen it, was about the 2008 financial crisis where a senior manager asks one of his staff to explain something to him like he was a golden retriever dog or a small child. And I think that's a good audience to keep in mind. Let's listen to a couple of ways that we can talk about simplifying information.I'm going to break this down into four key ideas. I'm going to break this down into four key ideas. We can boil this down to three issues. We can boil this down to three issues.

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