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Business Writing Training: Surrender Please! Powerful Business Writing Seminar
Raise your hand if you start written requests with "Please." Now raise your other hand if you end with "please," or sprinkle a few "please" statements throughout your business documents. If you are like most business writers, both hands are now up. It is the "I surrender" stance -- and appropriately so.
Your use of "please" is changing the dynamic with your reader. Not only are you giving the reader the option of not responding, that "please" is also putting you in a subservient position. Take back the power. From here forward:
• One to a customer. You are now limited to only one "please" per document. That one "please" can not be spent it in your first or last sentence. Yes, you can do it.
• Stop/Look/Listen. Think about the persuasive people you have met. They are polite and considerate while remaining enthusiastic and goal oriented -- without using "please." That puts them on equal footing with their audiences. You should be doing the same. This is particularly true in the work environment where you want to be perceived as high potential/management material/someone who can get things done.
• Use tone and style. If you are using "please" to soften the blow or motivate, is it really necessary? "Do this now, please" does not motivate. That is what your tone and your style of writing to the reader should accomplish.
• Go team! Replace those "pleases" with a "will you" or "your input is needed" even with a superior. This puts you on the team, focused on getting a job done, rather than serving as a flunky and hoping the reader will help.
Now, for you overachievers, try writing without any "pleases." Read it out loud. If you would respond positively to the tone, press send... and show off your leadership/management acumen.
Source: Claudia Coplon Link
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