Confidence Booster Toolkit

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Step 1: Familiarize yourself with the toolkit
Step 2: Decide where you will start
Step 3: Create your routine
Step 4: Let's crack on!

Progress Sheets
How To Measure Progress

START HERE: Introduction to Fast Phrases
1. Agree and disagree
2. Appreciate
3. Asking for your colleague's time
4. Chairing meetings Preview
5. Explaining why you are late
6. Communication commands with keep
7. Common project problems
8. Natural ways to delegate
9. Common promises
10. Complaints, problems, issues
11. Advanced business phrases with get
12. Advanced business phrases give
13. Let's
14. Project status
15. Advanced polite questions with phrasal verbs
16. Requests in online meetings
17. Scheduling meetings
18. Shall we...?
19. Talking about your agenda
20. Small talk
21. Business prepositions
22. Getting food and drink with colleagues

START HERE: Introduction to Lightspeed responses
1. Being asked to help or do things
2. Saying thank you
3. Scheduling a meeting
4. Meetings
5. Colleague conversation - verbs with so and not Preview
6. Attending events
7. Preferences
8. Me too and you too phrases
9. Food and drink with colleagues
10. Expressing surprise or shock
11. Certainty
12. No and not phrases
13. Shall...? question responses
14. Positive moments
15. Negative moments
16. Networking
17. Irony and sarcasm
18. Progress
19. Accepting apologies
20. Else phrases
21. Advanced so and neither phrases
22. Advanced responses to questions and comments

START HERE: Introduction to Advanced Verb Swaps
ANKI FLASHCARDS: What it is and how to use it
1. To come across
2. To get across
3. To sign off
4. To draw up
5. To come up with
6. To map out
7. To lay out
8. To sort out
9. To go about
10. To check in with
11. To pick up
12. To nail down
13. To pin down
14. To get around to
15. To rule out
16. To weigh up
17. To get through
18. To manage to do something Preview
19. To stick to something
20. To move forward
21. To pinpoint
22. To get rid of

Shall we...?
A bit of a
Would you....?

Analysing performance
Check-in questions
Introducing your company
Describing trends
Explaining a topic
Explaining key benefits
First Minute Phrases (From book The First Minute by Chris Fenning)
Highlighting the most important points
How to answer Q&A
Introducing a strategy
Making recommendations
Explaining a project
Project progress update
Talking about the future and forecasting

1. Go out vs leave (3 mins)
2. In the end vs at the end (3 mins)
3. Responsibility vs accountability (3 mins)
4. Until vs up to (3 mins)
5. Nowadays (3 mins)
6. Go down vs get worse (3 mins)
7. 3 phases of knowing people (4 mins)
8. To be reliable vs to be trustworthy (4 mins)
9. I don't care vs I don't mind (7 mins)
10. A setback vs a drawback (3 mins)
11. To reject vs to refuse (4 mins)