Name: 10 Brilliant WORKPLACE Phrases | ENGLISH FOR WORK
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Juma's Welcome back to another letter with me, Tom.

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Today we're looking at 10 English phrases that are super useful for the workplace.

So if you work in an office environment that uses English this is the lesson for you, Theo.

The first phrase that you might hear Keep me in the loop.

Well, they are asking you to share the information that you have with, um, maybe as something progressives.

So, for example, if you're in a meeting on your manager gives you a task and they say okay, and can you keep me in the loop?

That means they want to share any information that you have or you find with them as you go through the process.

You could also say to loop someone in So you might say to your bus loop you in as I go.

I will share the information that I have with you as I progressed through the task that I'm doing.

If you work in a team environment number two, have you got a sec?

Now, this is something that you would say to someone if you want to speak to them for a short time.

So maybe you have a problem or an issue or some kind of question.

You're just asking for that time you're saying, Can I speak to you for a short amount of time?

So these are phrases You are commonly here in an office environment.

So the idea here is that you believe that someone has experience or the expertise or the knowledge about something, and you maybe want to ask them questions, too, to get that information.

So you wanted to share the information with you.

So maybe, for example, I'm working with a colleague and they have a great knowledge off the Chinese economy.

So maybe if I've got a project related to the trainings economy, I might say, Can I pick your brains about a few things, so I would ask them specific questions about that because I believe they have a better knowledge off that world then than I do.

So to pick someone's brains is to ask them questions to get their expertise and knowledge about something.

It could also be asking for their ideas as well.

So can I pick your brains about the new ad campaign?

Maybe you want to get their ideas, their creative ideas.

So, yeah, it could be used in lots of different ways.

And again, another fantastic phrase that you here in the office a lot again before we're having a few teething problems.

Okay, teething is when a child grows teeth, right?

Now what we're talking about here is that a project, or whatever the situation is, are having some problems, some initial problems, but that they're not gonna completely stopped the project.

Just that there are a few small problems that we can overcome.

So maybe your company has implemented a new payment system.

Andi know everything is working perfectly.

So maybe half the team have been paid half a team haven't been paid, and they're just trying to work out what's wrong with this system.

It's not completely broken, but there are a few small problems.

So, yes, it's something has teething problems.

There are small problems that can be overcome.

Number five, A win win situation for everyone.

Well, it's a situation where everyone benefits.

Well, working from home, the concept of working from home could be a win win situation for everyone.

The employee gets to stay at home, don't they?

Don't have to commute, so the employees could stay at home.

They don't have to commute where and so what could be a win win situation?

Andi, working from home, the concepts of working from home.

So for the employees, they get to stay home.

They don't have to go and commute to work on for the employer.

Maybe they have more space in the office.

OK, so it's less crowded on and they have more.

Maybe they have lots of staff and fewer desks, so they don't have to rent a huge office space.

I guess you could have a lose lose situation as well as possible.

The idea of thinking outside the box is to think creatively, to think in a way that we haven't done before.

If we think outside the box, we think of alternative solutions.

We think more creatively about a problem.

So, for example, maybe a company has only ever advertised on television.

I think we're okay, guys, let's let's try and do something different.

So to think outside the box is to think creatively and to think differently to how you normally do on this phrase.

Could I have a quick way similar to with ones were talking about earlier?

You want to talk to them Now, this one, I feel slightly different from the other ones.

I feel that it's slightly more serious that the matter that they want to talk about.

So if someone so maybe you say to someone, can I have a quick word?

And you want to confront them about that issue.

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