Deutsch für Einzelgespräche, Feedback und Teamziele.
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An einem Montag Anfang Januar bittet Sabine Hartmann, die Bereichsleiterin Softwareentwicklung, Arjun Iyer zu einem kurzen Gespräch in ihr Büro.
(On a Monday at the beginning of January, Sabine Hartmann, the head of software development, asks Arjun Iyer to come to her office for a short talk.)Arjun arbeitet seit vier Jahren als Senior-Entwickler im Team Kundenportal einer Berliner Softwarefirma mit rund 250 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern.
(Arjun has been working for four years as a senior developer in Team Kundenportal (the customer portal team) of a Berlin software company with around 250 employees.)Die Firma entwickelt für Stadtwerke ein Kundenportal und eine Software für die Abrechnung von Strom, Gas und Wasser.
(The company develops a customer portal and software for billing electricity, gas and water for municipal utilities.) -
Wortschatz nach jedem Text
die Bereichsleiterin – head of department (female)
die Stadtwerke – municipal utilities, a municipal utility company
die Teamleitung – team lead (role)
das Missverständnis – misunderstanding
die Führung – leadership
der Bürotag – office day
German for Leadership
One-on-Ones, Feedback and Difficult Conversations
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Level B1–B2German → EnglishFor team leads
Zwölf Szenen aus dem ersten Jahr einer neuen Teamleitung in Berlin. Deutsch auf B1–B2 – und dabei Einzelgespräche, Feedback, Konflikte und Gespräche mit Personalabteilung und Betriebsrat aus der Nähe. Twelve scenes from one new team lead's first year in a Berlin software team. Every German sentence has its English one tap away. Reads in your browser on phone and laptop: no download, no app. The first scene is free.
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An einem Montag Anfang Januar bittet Sabine Hartmann, die Bereichsleiterin Softwareentwicklung, Arjun Iyer zu einem kurzen Gespräch in ihr Büro.
On a Monday at the beginning of January, Sabine Hartmann, the head of software development, asks Arjun Iyer to come to her office for a short talk.
Arjun arbeitet seit vier Jahren als Senior-Entwickler im Team Kundenportal einer Berliner Softwarefirma mit rund 250 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern.
Arjun has been working for four years as a senior developer in Team Kundenportal (the customer portal team) of a Berlin software company with around 250 employees.
Die Firma entwickelt für Stadtwerke ein Kundenportal und eine Software für die Abrechnung von Strom, Gas und Wasser.
The company develops a customer portal and software for billing electricity, gas and water for municipal utilities.
„Sie haben sich ja auf die Stelle beworben, und wir haben uns für Sie entschieden: Ab Mitte Januar übernehmen Sie die Teamleitung“, sagt Sabine Hartmann.
"You did apply for the position, and we have chosen you: from mid-January you will take over as team lead," says Sabine Hartmann.
Arjun freut sich über die Entscheidung, aber die Situation ist nicht einfach: Auch Lukas Becker hatte eine Bewerbung für die Stelle eingereicht.
Arjun is pleased about the decision, but the situation is not simple: Lukas Becker had also submitted an application for the position.
Lukas ist seit sieben Jahren im Team, kennt den Code des Kundenportals besser als alle anderen und genießt bei den Kunden viel Vertrauen.
Lukas has been in the team for seven years, knows the code of the customer portal better than anyone else and enjoys a lot of trust among the customers.
„Die Bewerbung von Herrn Becker war sehr gut, und uns ist wichtig, dass er im Team bleibt“, sagt Sabine Hartmann.
"Mr. Becker's application was very good, and it is important to us that he stays in the team," says Sabine Hartmann.
„Sprechen Sie doch gleich in der ersten Woche mit ihm, bevor aus einem Missverständnis ein Konflikt wird.“
"Why don't you talk to him in your very first week, before a misunderstanding turns into a conflict?"
About the book
Was drin ist · What's inside
- 12 scenes in 4 chapters: the first team meeting as the new lead, the first one-on-ones, what a team lead may decide alone, specific praise, critical feedback on a missed deadline, asking the team for feedback, a technical conflict between two developers, a talk about interrupting in meetings, an overloaded colleague, a development talk and delegating, new hybrid-work rules with HR and the works council, an AI coding assistant and the team lead's own annual review.
- Tap any sentence for its English. Switch between du and Sie in the documents: invitation to one-on-ones, conversation notes, a Teams message, a delegation e-mail, a team agreement.
- 131 core words as word cards with examples, collocations and job notes, plus an A–Z list of all glossed words.
- A quick check after every scene, interview practice and the Probefahrt: a short job check at the end.
- Interactive diagrams: team structure, the feedback steps, an effort/benefit matrix, the path to a team agreement, AI rules.
So lesen Sie · How you read it
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Level B1–B2. Fiction: the company and the people are invented. Scenes about the works council, working time, support offers at work and the EU AI Act are language material, not legal, HR or medical advice. Edition 1: the German was drafted with AI assistance and checked in several editing rounds; native-speaking team leads are proofreading it, and corrected editions replace it.
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