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This time, we talked about You Cannot Manage Well with Borrowed Words.
This video is on 20 Jan 2025. The scripts for this article are below.
Difficult
Many individuals strive to enhance their management skills by reading books or attending seminars. However, merely parroting the knowledge acquired from such resources to subordinates or colleagues is fraught with risks. Listeners can often discern when the speaker’s words lack authenticity, rendering the message ineffective.
To communicate effectively, it is crucial to share learned concepts in your own words, incorporating personal experiences and concrete examples. If you lack direct experience, testing the knowledge in real situations can provide valuable insights. By discussing both successes and failures from your journey, your message gains realism and credibility. Moreover, delivering your ideas with empathy fosters a connection that resonates deeply with others.
In conclusion, successful management hinges on blending knowledge with experience and demonstrating the practical ability to apply both in meaningful ways.
difficult terms
- Parroting – Repeating words or ideas without truly understanding them.
- Fraught with risks – Full of possible problems or dangers.
- Discern – To notice or understand something clearly.
- Authenticity – The quality of being real or genuine.
- Concrete examples – Real-life examples that are clear and specific.
- Empathy – The ability to understand and share another person’s feelings.
- Resonate – To have a deep emotional effect on someone.
- Hinge on – To depend on something for success or failure.
Middle
Many people try to improve their management skills by reading books or attending seminars. However, simply repeating what you learned to your team or others can be risky. People can often tell if you are just using someone else’s words.
To share what you learn in your own way, you need to include your personal experiences and speak concretely. If you do not have enough experience, it is a good idea to try using what you learned in real situations. Talking about both your successes and failures makes your message more real and convincing. Also, sharing your ideas with empathy helps your message reach others deeply.
In short, good management is not only about learning knowledge. It is about connecting what you learn with your own experiences and putting it into action.
difficult terms for this level
- Seminar – A meeting where people learn about a topic.
- Risky – Having a chance of causing problems or danger.
- Concretely – In a clear and real way.
- Convincing – Making people believe something is true.
- Empathy – The ability to understand and share another person’s feelings.
- Put into action – To start using or doing something.
Beginner
Many people read books or join seminars to learn how to be better managers. But if you just tell others what you read or heard, it can be dangerous. People often know if you are only copying someone else’s ideas.
To explain what you learn, you should use your own words and share your own experiences. If you do not have much experience, you can try using the new ideas in real life. Talking about your successes and failures makes your message stronger and more real. Also, showing care and understanding helps your message reach others deeply.
Good management is not only about learning. It is about using what you learn and connecting it with your own experiences.
difficult terms for this level
- Seminar – A meeting to learn something new.
- Dangerous – Not safe or causing problems.
- Copying – To do or say the same thing as someone else.
- Real life – The actual world, not ideas or imagination.
- Success – When something goes well or as planned.
- Failure – When something does not work well.
- Reach others deeply – To make people feel something strongly.
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