Do you know how to use diplomatic English?
Do you know how to use diplomatic English?
Business English. Do you know how to use diplomatic English in meetings?
Which techniques do you use of diplomatic English?
Being able to be use diplomatic in English is a useful soft skill. This skill helps you build and maintain relationships with colleagues, teams and different departments inside your company. And it also helps you build and maintain relationships with clients and suppliers outside your company.
So knowing diplomatic English vocabulary and phrases is useful professional skill.
(And here are five rules for polite and diplomatic English by Macmillan English Dictionary)
Do you know how to use diplomatic English in meetings?
?? Here are 7 techniques from our training to help you:
✅ Use softeners (e.g. “I’m afraid I have to…”, “I’m sorry but I have to…”)
✅ Modal Verbs (e.g. “It would be useful to have more time”, “Could you give me an answer by tomorrow?”)
✅ Using qualifiers (e.g. “We’re going to run slightly over budget.” “The launch plans are a little bit behind schedule.”)
✅ Passive Voice (e.g. “We were told that you were going to send the contract today.”, “It was agreed you would compromise on..).
✅ Negative Question Forms (e.g. “Shouldn’t we change…? “Couldn’t we shorten the report to…?”)
✅ Using the Past Continuous (e.g. “We were hoping to reach an agreement today”, “I was planning to organise a conference call to discuss this issue”.)
✅ Rephrasing a negative sentence (e.g. “I’ve not been able to finish the report yet.”, “I need more time to finish the report, but it will be completed this week.”)
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Read our popular post – tips and vocab for ‘Facilitating Good Meetings In English’.
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