8 Scraps delete your working vocabulary

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By Alison Green

Each back some phrases we use at work. But some of them can be highly irritating to the colleagues and alerting for managers.

Here are eight phrases that you use to work without much thought - but it's worth is to remove them from your desktop vocabulary.

1. "Are you busy?" This is likely to shrink both colleagues. Few people say, "No, I look at some celebrity gossip" and someone who is busy, may still be available for a break, depending on your needs could very well prepared .. Take your time for something urgently or be important, but I did not want to interrupt to the next potluck Instead of saying, used to discuss. "Do you have one minute to speak about X"?

2. "Can you please come to my office?" Since the term 1, which is frustrating because the recipients have no idea what you want. Is it important enough to include on other urgent tasks? Or they may differ in the day when they are busy? Do they need to bring something to take notes? Will they be put in place on a project if they would prefer the option of having notes before the meeting an overview? If you, the boss if they are preparing for a serious conversation? Or is it not so? Share speculations of people and to explain what it means.

3. "I'll try." You might think this is a reasonable response to a request or assignment if you are not sure you can do what is necessary, or take is a time limit. But let your manager is not sure whether you are bound. Sure you do not want to get something to the commit that you also revised, in order to complete, but to explain in this case, what you think. Instead of "I'll try," it is better to do something like:. "I think X to get in the way of that time, but when it starts to look like it is the case, I will return well ahead of time to understand, say how to prioritize".

4. "So fatten" your colleagues do not want to decide on, to hear what they happen to eat. You are not the police of the diet and should any temptation to comment on the calories in food employees to avoid the amount of snacks they had that day or unsafe to eat.

5. "It's not my fault." Not that you should not take the blame, if blame. But a more constructive formulation that do not focus on them not - or not - to reflect better the blame on you. For example, say: ".. I think what happened was X. And to avoid this, we need the marketing department and so earlier in the future I'm going to come back to Sarah to do in our customer list", however, the other end of the equation of guilt ...

6. "Sorry." In fact, there are times when you should apologize to work, as if someone injured or accidentally created extra work for a colleague. But some people tend to excuse remorse that offers everything from the need to ask a question to a standard project that no one was to blame on. Excess apology can search you weak and submissive. You can accidentally end responsibility for things that are not your fault.

7. "I can not keep my email." That's to his colleagues, "You can not count on me to read messages sent very important to save me." There is doubt as to its ability to increase to stay on top of their workload and make you look unreliable. When the manager heard you say, you're probably wondering whether going out tasks slip through the cracks or returning customers.

8. "A little reminder." If you have lengthened the track to a colleague with already "just a little reminder," there is a good chance that the recipient does gnashing of teeth. The phrase often acts as you say, "I'm afraid I might be insulted by a normal business communication, so I think I love you approached cautiously." Or should not tiptoeing around to support their peers. Is it normal to be direct and to say: "I want this because of X. remember"