Pratique du Shadowing: The 1-Word Shift That Changed How My Team Performs - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Création de la leçon...
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If you think great leaders don't need to be great managers, you've probably got a blind spot.
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and it's costing you more than you know.
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you Welcome to Moments with Marty, your short, sharp shot of leadership insight to help you to stay on track between our weekly episodes of the No Bullshit Leadership podcast.
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It all started with a LinkedIn post from Simon Sinek jumping on the leaders good managers bad bandwagon.
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This took me back to a myth busting episode we produced in 2023, where I contrasted leadership and management and clarified why the two are virtually inseparable.
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In that episode, I said...
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Leadership and management live on a continuum.
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within a spectrum of subtle gradients.
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They're intrinsically linked and they can't be separated by black and white distinctions.
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You can't be a great leader, unless you're also a good manager.
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And the converse is also true.
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You can't be a great manager unless you're also a good leader.
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Many years ago, as a corporate executive, I didn't understand this relationship until I admitted the flaws in my own execution and did the work to correct them.
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I used to think that I was brilliant at execution.
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My teams were delivering incredible outcomes and I built a strong track record on the back of that.
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I may have even started to believe my own bullshit.
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But as we know, today's rooster is tomorrow's feather duster.
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I had an Achilles heel.
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My style and my approach worked superbly for my high -performing direct reports, who were strong and confident, But for others, it just wasn't that effective.
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And I hadn't yet worked out that I needed to adapt my one size fits all style.
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the one that mostly worked for me, to a more consistent and more surgical approach.
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As I look back now, I reckon I was always pretty good at a few things.
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For example, Setting challenging but realistic expectations.
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giving clear, direct feedback.
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Being a sounding board for problem solving and decision making.
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and bringing motivation and pragmatic optimism to every situation.
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It's a pretty decent laundry list, right?
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I'd even go so far as to call it good leadership.
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But let me tell you where my blind spot was.
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I didn't inspect the outputs thoroughly.
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And because of that, there were a few situations where I got nasty surprises.
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a project that wasn't quite as far advanced as I'd been told.
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A scope of work that wasn't quite contained.
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A milestone that hadn't quite been met.
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To resolve those issues, I had to become a better manager.
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not a better leader.
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This wasn't comfortable for me and it took me a while to get the right balance.
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But moving my language from Tell me.
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to show me made a massive difference.
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It enabled me to inspect outputs more diligently, It sharpened the whole reporting discipline.
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My people figured out pretty quickly that I wouldn't take their word at face value.
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and it gave me much greater visibility of true progress while I was able to intervene at a much earlier stage.
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without dipping down into the detail of my people's work and micromanaging them.
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So the next time you hear one of those hackneyed management versus leadership rants, you'll know better.
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A lack of strong management guarantees inferior performance.
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If you want to lift performance, Put your desirable leadership attributes aside and learn to manage better.
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If you want to uncover my six key levers of execution excellence, Have a listen to episode 371 of the No Bullshit Leadership podcast.
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How I learned to produce exceptional results.
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We'll leave a link in the show notes.
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I really hope you enjoyed this moment and that it gives you that extra little spark to be a no bullshit leader.
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you Yeah.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « The 1-Word Shift That Changed How My Team Performs ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : leadership, leader, manager, bullshit, episode. Cette vidéo contient 51 phrases et 633 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:22. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 145 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. Seuls 76 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
podcast nom/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast, balado
continuum nom/kənˈtɪnjuəm/continuum
converse verbe/kənˈvɝs/converser, parler
diligently adverbe/ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒ(ə)ntli/diligemment
duster nom/ˈdʌstɚ/chiffon, brosse
gradient nom/ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/pente
hackneyed adjectif/ˈhæk.nid/rebattu, éculé
inseparable adjectif/inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/inséparable
intrinsically adverbeintrinsèquement
pragmatic adjectif/pɹæɡˈmætɪk/pragmatique
rooster nom/ˈɹustɚ/coq
sharpen verbe/ˈʃɑɹpən/affiler, affûter
superbly adverbesuperbement, magnifiquement
uncover verbe/ʌnˈkʌvɚ/découvrir
flaw nom/flɔ/défaut, fissure

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotPrononciationSens
figure out verbecerner
look back verbese remémorer
work out verbe/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/calculer

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 21 contractions et formes réduites, comme wasn't, can't, didn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « th »: feather /ˈfɛðə/, myth /mɪθ/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: diligently /ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒ(ə)ntli/, inseparable /inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/, optimism /ˈɑptɪmɪzəm/, visibility /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, inferior /ɪnˈfɪɹ.i.ɚ/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hackneyed /ˈhæk.nid/, heel /hil/
  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: diligently /ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒ(ə)ntli/, surgical /ˈsɝd͡ʒɪkəl/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: gradient /ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/, inseparable /inˈsɛ.p(ə).ɹə.bl/, pragmatic /pɹæɡˈmætɪk/, rooster /ˈɹustɚ/, sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

  1. Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
  2. Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme podcast, continuum, converse.

Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?

Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

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