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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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July 26, 2019
Vous partez en vacances? Ne faites pas une mauvaise impression à vos clients, collègues et supérieurs avec une réponse automatique out-of-office en anglais incorrect (que j'en vois trop.) ✅Niveau 1 (à utiliser lorsque vous êtes en déplacement, en formation ou tout simplement pas à votre bureau): I’m out of the office with limited access to my emails. I will get back to you as soon as I can. ✅ Niveau 2 (Je suis disponible pour des urgences et je lirai mes mails à un moment donné): I’m out of the office, returning on 10 August. I will answer you when I get back. For urgent matters, please text me on 0612345677. ✅Niveau 3 (Je suis en vacances et je ne ferai aucun travail. En outre, je ne lirai jamais ce mail): I’m out of the office from 29 July - 12 August. Your email will not be read. For urgent matters, please call John Smith on 012345676. ⚠️Un dernier conseil, vérifiez que vous avez bien changé les dates de la dernière réponse automatique, qui nous explique que vous reviendrez le 3 novembre 2018... (Oui, j'en vois trop souvent aussi...) #anglais #vacances #mails
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July 26, 2019
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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