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gestão empresarial
inglês Vi
Personal DeveloPment
12
ObjetivOs da Unidade de aprendizagem
Levar o aluno a negociar condições; descrever proble-
mas; apontar soluções; descrever vantagens; mostrar 
compreensão; responder a sugestões, utilizar advérbios 
de tempo, modo e frequência.
COmpetênCias
Planejar seu futuro profissional, avaliar ofertas, fazer 
escolhas, compreender situações adversas. 
Habilidades
Pesquisar sobre cursos de capacitação profissional, 
perguntar sobre a qualidade de cursos, fazer esco-
lhas adequadas.
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Personal DeveloPment
ApresentAção
Na Unidade anterior, você estudou o uso da terceira con-
dicional para falar de coisas que poderiam ter aconte-
cido, dependendo do cumprimento ou não do que ha-
via sido estabelecido como condição. Você também viu 
dicas de como economizar seu tempo, priorizando os 
seus afazeres.
Nesta Unidade, além de uma revisão sobre advérbios, 
no que se refere aos fundamentos da língua, vamos falar 
sobre desenvolvimento pessoal.
pArA ComeçAr
Você investe em cursos de capacitação? Você costuma 
fazer treinamentos? A sua empresa oferece programas 
de capacitação profissional?
FundAmentos
Você se lembra dos advérbios? Você estudou no semes-
tre passado. Vamos recordar fazendo uma breve revisão 
nos advérbios.
Figura 1. 
Desenvolvimento 
pessoal.
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1. advÉrbiOs
1.1 Advérbios de frequênciA
 → Often, generally, sometimes, never, seldom, always…
São colocados, de preferência, antes do verbo principal e depois do 
verbo auxiliar.
 → Everyday, once a month, twice a week, every other day…
São colocados, de preferência, no final da oração.
1.2 Advérbios de probAbilidAde
 → Possibly, probably, certainly…
São colocados, de preferência, antes do verbo principal e depois do 
verbo auxiliar.
 → Perhaps e Maybe.
Aparecem normalmente no começo da oração.
1.3 Advérbios de tempo
 → Tomorrow, Today, now, soon, lately…
São colocados no final ou no início da oração.
1.4 Advérbios de modo
 → Slowly, quickly, gently, softly, well…
Aparecem normalmente no final da oração.
Dica
Grande parte dos advérbios de modo é formada pelo acrés-
cimo de ly ao adjetivo.
 → Serious = seriously;
 → Careful = carefully;
 → Bad = badly.
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atenção
No entanto, nem todas as palavras terminadas em ly são 
advérbios.
 → Lonely;
 → Lovely;
 → Silly;
 → Elderly.
1.5 Advérbios de lugAr
 → Here, there, everywhere…
São colocados no final ou no início da oração.
antena 
pArAbóliCA
Benefits of Business Coaching
As business around the world has become increasingly 
competitive, the demand for business coaching has in-
creased. Business coaching creates an environment for 
the overall growth of the business and trains it to adapt 
to change. A few years ago, just a handful of small busi-
nesses used business coaching as a means to augment 
their business. Today, statistics reveal that almost 58% 
of the medium or small sized businesses in the US are 
seeking the benefits of business coaching. Businesses 
are using coaching because it is a cost effective way to 
achieve results. It helps to develop personnel skills and 
performance. Individuals who receive business coaching 
can expect to find guidance concerning the problems 
that they face. Business coaching offers new insights into 
daily business activities and helps improve methods, sys-
tems and procedures.
Many companies that have undertaken business 
coaching have reported an increase in productivity and 
quality of work. When people are coached, team relation-
ships improve and these enhanced relationships lead to 
an increase in productivity and quality. Many businesses 
judge productivity by how hard an individual employee’s 
works, but this method overlooks the importance of syn-
ergy and quality of work. Very often, employees tend to 
overlook quality in their haste to get work done and this 
forces others to rework what has already been done. The 
secret to increased productivity and quality lies in allow-
ing the employees to make a connection between their 
personal needs and those of the organization. Satisfied 
employees work harder and smarter and are a boon to 
the company. Coaching programs not only help the em-
ployees to survive but also help them attain their peak 
performance as a team.
Coaching helps bring about a sound understanding of 
business principles. Business coaching is said to be the 
most effective way of achieving growth, change and devel-
opment in the individual, group and organization. Coach-
ing is the best way to develop, unleash and maximize the 
potential within each individual. It helps achieve goals for 
business and professional success. Customer service is di-
rectly proportional to the rate of productivity as well as to 
the quality level. If there is an increase in productivity and 
quality, customer complaints will reduce considerably. If 
the quality is not up to the mark then there will be an in-
crease in customer complaints and lost sales. Coaching 
also helps bring about cost reduction. Companies that 
provide coaching to their employees get an average re-
turn on investment that is equal to almost six times the 
amount invested in their coaching programs.
Business coaching deals with human interactions 
and people issues that are common across all sectors 
of business. Coaching helps make the company a more 
fulfilling place to work in. It also helps improve working 
relationships, communication and decision-making. It 
helps build healthy teams, improves working conditions, 
reduces stress levels and leads to employee satisfaction 
at the workplace. Coaching also helps stressed out em-
ployees cope with their professional and personal lives.
Business coaching improves working relationships with 
peers and indirectly improves the team spirit. A higher em-
ployee satisfaction rate tends to result in a lower employ-
ee turnover in the organization. Coaching helps individuals 
recognize their core strengths and enables them to utilize 
them to the fullest. The process of business coaching is not 
only growth oriented but it also aims at changing behaviors 
and increasing skills. Both individuals and teams feel the 
benefits as leadership qualities are cultivated, and creativi-
ty, change and innovation receive a major boost.
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e AgorA, José?
Nesta Unidade você recapitulou como usar os advérbios, 
em especial, os advérbios de frequência, modo, probabi-
lidade, lugar e tempo.
Você pôde conhecer um pouco sobre Business Coaching.
Na próxima Unidade, vamos falar um pouco mais so-
bre questões relacionadas à sua carreira profissional.
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