{"id":3561,"date":"2022-01-17T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:24:13","slug":"in-plain-english-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/01\/in-plain-english-please\/","title":{"rendered":"In Plain English, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We usually understand one another better when we speak in simple, real-life terms\u2014also know as plain English (for us English speakers).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please speak in plain English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of: What are the Key Performance Indicators in your organization this reporting period?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try this: What keeps you awake at night?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of: Red, Green, or Yellow, how is your project?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try this: When you are driving home from work, are you thinking about the project or about your home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list could go on. Find any &#8220;management term&#8221; anywhere and translate it to plain English, please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not easy. This does not always work. It does, however, work more often that the other stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We usually understand one another better when we speak in simple, real-life terms\u2014also know as plain English (for us English speakers). Please speak in plain English. Instead of: What are the Key Performance Indicators in your organization this reporting period? Try this: What keeps you awake at night? Instead of: Red, Green, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,67],"tags":[154,132,187],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-management","category-work","tag-communication","tag-management","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}