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How to Send a Follow-Up Email to Get a Reply: Restate Your Request In some cases, you might want to emphasize exactly what it is you’re asking for and why. Reiterate (повторите, напомните) your request in one to two sentences. Pull out the most important point along with the deliverable you’re waiting on and the…

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How to Send a Follow-Up Email to Get a Reply: Be Direct Sometimes the best approach is simply to point someone right back to the original request, minus the passive-aggressive phrasing. The call to action, in other words, is to read and respond to the original email. In these instances, reply to the thread —…

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How to send a follow-up email to get a reply What if you need something from a colleague but haven’t received a response yet? It’s time to follow up (вернуться к теме, довести до конца). You pull up the thread, click “Reply,” and have the urge to start typing, “Do you have those answers for…

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How To Be a Persuasive Speaker: Being More Authentic Being authentic doesn’t mean always behaving the same way in all situations. Authenticity (неподдельность, искренность) requires self-awareness (самоанализ) as well as awareness of your context and situation before deciding which parts of the real you to show. Think about each presentation situation, understand your audience, and…

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How To Be Persuasive: Bring Out The Real You Once you understand your behaviors and style, start building them into your presentations and speeches more often. Experiment and use further audience feedback to figure out (понять, выяснить) when you are succeeding and when you are not. Try out new techniques that you think might work…

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How To Be a Persuasive Speaker: Understand Your Unique Communication Style Is your speaking style naturally formal or informal? Are you more effective using slides that are very visual and emotive, or that are factual (основаны на фактах) and data-driven (управляемые данными)? Or no slides at all? To better understand your personal style, you’ll need…

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The Secret To Being a Persuasive Speaker WHY AUTHENTICITY MATTERS Being authentic (настоящий, подлинный) means being you. No pretense, no acting, no airs, no trying to talk or act like someone else. When we are at ease being ourselves, we communicate more naturally and with more confidence because our brains are not putting in extra…

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How to use the year-end review to further your career Use your year-end review to grow in your career, says Laura Handrick, senior careers and workplace analyst for the career website FitSmallBusiness.com. “Keep track of (следите, отслеживайте) all the good things you do throughout the year,” she says. “Then, at quarter-end (в конце квартала) or…

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How To Do a Year-End Review: Take Inventory Katie Sandler, an impact coach (наставник, обучающий искусству влияния), suggests that you ask yourself five main questions: 1. What were three to four highs and three to four lows? This is where you start taking inventory (производить учет) and building awareness. 2. What enabled or motivated you…

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How (And Why) You Should Give Yourself a Year-End Review CELEBRATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS When reviewing the year, people often focus on what they want to improve instead of also celebrating their accomplishments (отмечать свои достижения). As though they’re not allowed to, especially if it involves something that is not fully complete. This vision of oneself…