Business C1 · Lesson 3B
Every word and expression from this lesson — with definitions, synonyms and examples.
the most likely scenario in a leader's head, stated as such
state the direction firmly, then qualify the confidence level
the honest range around a point estimate — spoken or numerical
the audible range of certainty around a claim
Grant's term: strong opinion + visible openness to revise it
the C1 register that decides and, simultaneously, names its own uncertainty
the tone, pace and register a speaker reaches for automatically under pressure
the small drop in pitch at the end of a sentence that the ear reads as certainty
the grammar of how confident you are in what you're saying
the leader's habit of over-claiming to look decisive
the specific evidence that would move the claim
a linguistic move that reduces the strength of a claim without abandoning it
the difference between what I think and who I am — the former is negotiable
the space between over-modulating (tentative) and under-modulating (brittle)
the space a hedged statement leaves for the team to challenge it
the two failure modes of leaders speaking under uncertainty
the habitual moment a leader schedules to update a strategic assumption
a hedged verb (I wonder if, it may be that) that opens a question without leading it
rising intonation at the end of a declarative that converts it into an implicit question