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Feb 2025
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267. Defend Your Decisions: How to Push ...

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As a senior manager working in English, do you have to defend your decisions? Your colleagues may ask you to extend the deadline, ask for more resources or changes. In this episode I share with you business english vocabulary to help you push back confidently in English. 

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