Business English | How to Ask Your Manager for Help in English [601]

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  Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to my podcast on business English.

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  And today we're going to talk again about problems that you might have in the workplace.

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  And today's podcast is about how to ask your manager for help without sounding

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  that you're incapable or unprofessional and ways that you can ask for help.

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  So it's not just a...

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  Casual question where you ask a colleague for some help but this is your boss your reporting line so in addition

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  to you looking for help you really don't want to sound unprofessional and you want to be asking for assistance

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  but sound clear and understand what the problem is so it's really all about the words that you use the phrases

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  and how you put them across So we've got 12 particular points and scenarios, situations,

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  and I'll give you examples as we go through this.

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  So it's business English, and I'll cover this and emphasise what the objectives are.

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  And at all times, what we're trying to do is to achieve a level of professionalism in your question

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  and avoid sounding as if you're out of your depth and cannot do the job.

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  OK, so let's get on.

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  Let's set the scene.

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  So you've been given, let's say, a job or a project

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  to do and you've made a start and you have come to one particular

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  part that you see as a little bump or a little difficulty and you're not able to get past it.

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  So it might be to do with interpretation.

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  It might be the first time that you've seen an issue like this.

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