Product features

Also writing and listening, if time

Onboarding software

• What is “onboarding”?• What is “onboarding software”?• Podcast

Questions (1-5, you must re-phrase)

1. Maker?2. Intended audience?3. New hire process: 3

important factors?4. Transactional

onboarding process: 3 components?

5. Listener has what process in place?

6. What is probably wrong with it? (3 problems)

7. How can any business benefit from OBS?

8. What business types would get special benefit?

9. What is suggested as the first step for a company considering OBS?

Further questions

• What is “compliance”? Why is it important? Is it considered to be important in Taiwan business?

• The podcast mentioned “transactional onboarding process”. What other parts are there?

• Some companies have OB computer programs which “may be software, but are not a solution”. How come?

• One possible reason for implementing OBS is simply to move the process online. What other reason is suggested, at the end of the podcast?

Another podcast: write questions

• Country?• Not/podcast/before/why?• Podcast/plans? (5 types mentioned)• Prevent/write/blog/factor? (1 mentioned)• Podcast idea/based/TV show?• How often/plan?• Who/first?

Ask and answer your questions

• You can listen again if you like.– http://www.dotnetindiashow.com/

• Also, what features of the podcaster’s English are different from standard English?

Homework (last week)

• Correct and type up “Interview” writing.– Bring it next week, with the original stapled to it

• Listen to the onboarding podcast again– Answer to the “Further questions” on slide 8.

• Become familiar with the contents of Unit 6 in the textbook.

Product feature conversations

• Shipping costs – FOB Keelung– CIF Liverpool

• http://www.iccwbo.org/incoterms/id3038/index.html

• What are your terms?• What’s the lead time for delivery?

Page 33

• One group member chooses a product.• Other members ask these (and other)

questions.• Guess the product.

Page 34B• The guy in the picture is choosing a printer• He asks about the features of the printer• He can also ask about– The paper capacity– Paper (media) types– Weight– Resolution– The make and model

• Make these questions in pairs• Answer the questions (about your own printer at

home)

Page 35• Look at the gray box• Now write 10 more questions – You all own a laptop, so you know what to ask!

• B tries to sell it to A• A asks questions about the product – A: page 35– B: page 123

• A points out problems with the product, and tries to get a discount

• B is unwilling to give the discount, but reluctantly agrees.

Different ways to present product features. Which do you like, and why?• http://www.oracle.com/database/product_ed

itions.html• http://www.clarklabs.org/products/product-

features.cfm• http://www.apple.com/mac/• http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1582-design-

in-progress-choosing-the-right-product• http://www.amazon.com/Norton-Antivirus-

2008-User-VERSION/dp/B000V5PN06

It is the year 2110.

• Your company has invented and patented the ____.

• Create a short PowerPoint presentation about your product.– Perhaps you can illustrate the product?

• Try to sell it to members of another group.

Homework (this week)

• Listen to the first full-length podcast on http://www.dotnetindiashow.com/

• Make 10 questions based on it to ask your classmates