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Ooh, teaser! Now it would be weird if the whole meeting went by and you
didn’t contribute. You’ll get your opening. You’ve created suspense
(напряжение/неизвестность).
If the group email won’t work, try the same thing in person. Catch (словите)
others who will be in the meeting later at the proverbial (пресловутый) water
cooler, and tell them, “I have some amazing data that will help us decide X.”
If pressed about the “amazing data,” say, “Let’s save it for the meeting so we
can get everybody’s feedback.”
3. Get on the Agenda (займитесь вопросами на повестке дня): Do meetings
just come and go, while you barely (едва) get a word in? Set the agenda.
Even if you’re the least powerful person in the room, you can often set some
part of the agenda. Who called the meeting? Run into that person a few hours
before the meeting and ask what the agenda is. If you get a vague
(расплывчатый) answer (“Well, we’re just going to talk about…”), try
something like, “Great, I’d like to make sure I get to share [this thing I’ve been
doing] so we can all coordinate [other parts of the project]. Can we make sure
we give that five to 10 minutes?” Or, “I’d like to give a progress report on X.
Can I get five minutes for that?”
If what you really want to do is have your ideas heard and get credit for them,
don’t say that, exactly. Couch it (сформулируйте) in language no boss could
say no to. For instance, you’d like to give an “executive-level briefing” about
Project X. Ooh, executive-level briefings are for important people! I want one
of those!
If you can’t quite pull that off, “briefing” is still a great word. It puts the
emphasis (ударение) on the importance of the listener, which can help to get
you airtime (время в эфире).
Exercise 407. Watch the video 3.20 and answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CdixDzE7I0
- I'm just saying, telling the truth is not in the cards (не суждено) right
now. I thought, I thought you'd be excited to have an acting job.
- If it's an acting job we should get paid.
- Yeah, you're gonna get paid in experience.
- I want to actually get paid….mm-hmm all right.
- What do you want?
- $600 for the day plus overtime if we go over eight hours. I'll do my own
hair, makeup. And I want you to pay for the six-week intensive acting
camp that my mom can't afford.
- $50 for the day and a 2-week acting class at the YMCA nearest to you.
- $500 and a four-week acting class.
- $300 in a three-week class.

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