Weeks 8 : Advice & Suggestion, Management & Leadership Vocabulary, And Talking About Abilities

 Hi everyone..

How are you? I'm back with new material this week. I hope you will still stay on my blog. I hope you all can understand it.

A. ADVICE & SUGGESTION

Giving Advice

English uses "could," and "must" to vary the strength of advice given.

ex :

A : You should delegate more work to your team.

B : You must to talk to your manager.

>> Should : strong advice

>> Must : very strong advice.

B. MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP VOCABULARY

ex:

• Every year I have an appraisal with my manager.

=> an appraisal / a performance review

[an interview to discuss an employee's performance]

• I was promoted this year, so I have my own office.

=> to be promoted

[to be given a more senior position within a company.]

• We get a $500 sales bonus if we meet our targets.

=> a bonus

[money added to person's wages as a reward for good perfomance]

• My boss is really pleased with my performance this year.

=> performance

[how well a person carriers out tasks]

• Our manager has to approve this before it goes to the client.

=> to approve

[to officially confirm something meets the required standards]

C. TALKING ABOUT ABILITIES

To talk about people's skills, for example in a performance review, you can use various modal verbs to express present, past, and future ability.

• Present Ability

=> Use "can", "can't", and "cannot" to talk about people's skills and abilities in the present.

ex: 

Jasmine's team can finish the job really quickly

• Past Ability

=>Use "could" to talk about abilities in the past. The negative form is "couldn't" or "could not."

 ex:

My old team could work really well, but my new team can't concentrate.