From campus to the workplace, if you want to get a quick promotion and salary increase, you must first learn to express it accurately.

"Are you sure this plan is suitable for the current situation of the company?"

"What is the basis of your plan? What do you think of the problems existing in the company now? "

"Look at this plan you wrote and go back and think about it."

Have you ever had such an experience? I am new to the workplace, full of hope for the future and full of confidence in my work.

However, reality has given you a heavy blow and made you fragmented. I stayed up all night to make a plan, which was criticized by all kinds of people, even without a chance to play, and was directly rejected by the boss.

At the same time, all the department partners who entered the company are appreciating and raising their salaries. Why everyone is working hard, the salary remains the same, and it has only increased the workload.

You are sad, sad and angry, complaining that the boss is cold-blooded and the company is unfair.

However, life has abused you thousands of times, and you regard life as your first love.

You really know that sentence. Life will never treat you well because you are a girl.

At that moment, I realized my problem, and solving contradictions in time is the most correct way to solve the problem.

After self-examination, I found some problems of myself. Even aware of the excellent partner who was promoted and raised, colleagues in the company praised him for his outstanding work ability.

Why is he a newcomer to the workplace? Why can't he be so good? How to change your present situation?

During that time, I was eager to do one thing well and prove my ability. These questions have been filling my whole brain.

Of course, it was improved later, but the process was extremely tragic, and I took many detours and consulted many predecessors. Fortunately, after constant adjustment, I changed my working attitude, improved my expression ability and became more and more comfortable with my work. I recently read "Accurate Expression" by Japanese writer Keihisa Takada, who has worked in a consulting company for many years. This book is very useful for professionals at all stages and can help us solve different problems in our work. Unfortunately, I didn't meet myself at that time, otherwise I wouldn't have to take so many detours.

A sentence on the cover can make all people in the workplace tempted: "Let your plan move people's hearts in the shortest time".

This sentence sums up the main content of this book. After I finished reading it, I was still unfinished. It's a pity that such an excellent book was not known earlier, or you wouldn't have to take so many detours. Fortunately, it is not too late to take a walk now, and I understand more systematically that making a logical plan requires not only thinking ability, but also good expression ability. And you should not only know yourself, but also know each other.

Takada Keihisa said in this book: He found that in many cases, "poor expression ability" is not the reason why you are tongue-tied when submitting a plan, but "you don't know what you should say at all" is the key to unsmooth expression.

While reading this time, I sorted out the main contents of the book Accurate Expression and wrote it down to share with you. I hope you can quickly adapt to the workplace, find the survival rules of the workplace, improve your core competitiveness, be more confident and find the value of your work.

Keihisa Takada, the author of Accurate Expression, founded Precena Strategic Partners Co., Ltd. as the founder and CEO in 2006. The company advocates the systematization and popularization of business skills, and is committed to paying attention to the development of enterprises and personal growth. I have worked in Arthur D. Little, BCG and other well-known consulting companies for many years. As a professional consultant, he has submitted numerous proposals and is familiar with the conditions for a plan to be approved by everyone quickly.

"Reasonable thinking ability and proper expression ability are indispensable for business people. While having both, we must also maintain a balance between the two. "

First, learn to think rationally and keep communication between the two sides barrier-free.

If all communication is self-centered, then your communication with others is only your unilateral speech, not communication.

"What do you mean, what do you want to say?"

"Why don't you even understand such a simple meaning?"

Many people feel that they are right, but they can't completely solve the contradiction that their meaning is often misunderstood.

No matter life or work. Whether it is oral communication or written expression, we will find that sometimes you obviously don't mean it, but the other party understands it. You think the plan you wrote is great and in line with the company's situation, but your boss refused mercilessly.

I don't accept these communication barriers and my own plans.

Nicky Stanton, a British best-selling author, explained to us that the meaning we give to words depends on how we interpret the world, and each of us sees and understands the world in a different way.

Everyone in this world is an independent individual. Everyone has different education, growing environment and lifestyle since childhood, so the other party doesn't understand the logic we express and our ideas.

However, when we write a plan to express the meaning of "let everyone understand and accept", if we can't change each other, then change ourselves.

Second, the use of logic, properly express their ideas

When you finish your thoughts, the other person will look at your plan and don't understand what you want to express. Don't blame others, review yourself.

When I first came into contact with the plan, I worked hard every time and stayed up late to collect relevant information. However, the plan I handed in was repeatedly rejected by my boss, and I was deeply hit many times, even complaining that my boss was unreasonable. But after reading some excellent cases, I can't help but feel ashamed of my thoughts.

When I fell down again and again and got up again, I found that I could understand each other's thoughts better and know why I was rejected.

If you want to write a good plan and express your meaning completely, you must first look at whether your logic is reasonable. Logic plays a decisive role in whether the other party can understand you quickly.

Takada Takada divides logic into vertical logic and horizontal logic.

Vertical logic refers to causality. Because there is "A", there is "B".

Horizontal logic refers to the total score relationship. There is no omission or repetition, and "A" includes "B and C".

In the past, when we were at school, we all resisted attending large-scale school meetings. We tried our best to skip classes every time, feeling bored and wasting time. Later, when I presided over some meetings, I realized the teacher's mentality at that time. The other party doesn't know what you're talking about, so how can they be willing to listen to you? The difference is that there are many questions to answer in the later meeting, although at first I was dizzy and speechless by too many questions.

Later, the number of times increased. In fact, the most important thing is to avoid two problems.

"Is this really the case?"

"Is that all?"

When the other person questions, "Is this really the case?" . It shows that we have not organized the vertical logic well or well enough in our speech, that is to say, the causal relationship is weak.

Is there any basis for your proposal? How can you be sure that what you said is correct? At this time, only by answering every question raised by the other party and dispelling the scruples in the other party's heart can our vertical logic be reasonable.

When the other person questions, "Is that all?" It shows that we didn't organize horizontal logic well or well enough in our speech, that is, we didn't grasp the reasonable thinking of the whole, and there were omissions and repetitions.

Repetition is easy to find, omission is not easy to find. Only by listing the whole thing can we find the missing and fill the blank, which depends on our grasp of the whole thing.

When we express our plans, it is very important to grasp the logic, but ultimately it depends on what kind of person the other party is. After all, whether your logic is reasonable or not is up to the other party to judge.

Third, make a plan to improve the quality of the text.

Daily work report and work summary at the end of the month, we need to submit large and small reports every day, so writing what we want to express is a very important process.

"Business text is a tool for us to accurately convey our thoughts and effectively convince each other, and it can even be said to be our weapon."

Putting your ideas into a picture or text can better clarify our logical framework. My best friend said there was an activity these days. She discussed with the teacher, and after determining the specific details, the teacher asked her to make an illustrated text for her to explain, so as to avoid the people present at that time being confused because they couldn't keep up with her ideas.

She was going to make a PPT, but now she can only do it according to the teacher's idea. At first, she thought it was all discussed and her thoughts were clear. She just needs to write it out. As a result, when she was doing it, it was not so easy to find it. She has been struggling for two days and has not succeeded yet. Asked what I thought, I told her the advice I got in the book Accurate Expression.

First of all, we can divide this process into five steps:

1. Make a short message: condense the information you want to convey to the other party into a few sentences.

2. Making charts: making statistical charts, graphs and illustrations. To help each other understand correctly.

3. Making slides: combine text and information on a piece of paper at the same time to convey their meaning.

4. Make a data package: combine multiple pictures together. Most of them are company profiles and competitive product analysis.

5. Data set: All kinds of data are combined to provide all the information needed for the activity.

As long as you know all the information needed for the activity, your own purpose and the requirements of the other party, you can express yourself fluently without getting stuck in your writing.

Secondly, we should pay attention to two points when making icons.

Be clear at a glance and not be misunderstood.

Don't violate human reading habits.

Everyone's time is limited, and they don't want to spend a lot of time reading long paragraphs, so they must be simple and accurate, otherwise they will make jokes.

Everyone will have their own reading habits, but understand the reading habits of most people, so that everyone can accurately capture what you want to convey in the table. Just like Chinese-English translation, even if everyone has the same meaning, the word order is different. Without mastering the language habits of the other party, the meaning of literal translation is not accurate.

Finally, in order to make the text look concise, we must delete some unnecessary information.

Delete unnecessary information

Delete unnecessary text

Delete unnecessary attribute information

Before writing, you must seriously think about the meaning of each chart, as well as the placement, text and pattern. Everything should be concise and don't make people feel that the information is messy.

Takada Keihisa said: Only when thinking ability and communication ability are in harmony with each other can we make excellent plans. Planning is neither an unfounded fantasy nor an unconvincing mandatory requirement, but an effort to convey what you think is right to others.

Each of us will go from campus to society and step into the workplace. Want to shine in the workplace, want to gain something, mentally and materially. We can get everything, but

We will experience some ridicule or disdain before we get it. We should face up to our own problems, whether in the workplace or in life. Only by constantly pushing ourselves, when we grow up, applying workplace rules and mastering skills can we live a better life.