With your described mix of management levels, I believe you'd be safer by forming your recommendation as a question; "may I suggest.."
Jack --- On Tue, 2/2/10, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: English, American version > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 9:18 AM > From: Boris Liberman > > > Here is my situation. I came as an engineer (think - > Dilbert) along with the project manager (mid-to-high > management, also non-native speaker, but probably more > experienced in this specific kind of verbal kung-fu) and > worked with both my parallels (system operator and IT person > of the company we visited) and also lower-mid managers and > some higher ranked boss whose true rank I fail to > comprehend. My lame excuse was that in fact I was rather > occupied all the time with the technical situation and > simply said what I meant - that I suggest that in order to > solve the problem they have they do this and don't do that. > I indicated that they could do otherwise, but that we would > advise them to stick to our suggestion as we think it is the > optimal course of action at the moment. I specifically > indicated that this was a temporary measure for the duration > of their more important work. At then of this period (whose > duration was given explicitly) they could return to their > normal procedures. > > To summarize: > > Your customer has some process that is giving trouble in > current circumstances. Your company is involved in making > the process work properly. > > You are presenting possible solutions to a group of peers > and higher level management. > > You laid out possible options for dealing with the problem > and said "I suggest this specific option BECAUSE" ... based > on your expertise, you believe it to be the optimal > solution. > > It seems to me, you are acting in the role of "consultant". > Under the circumstances, your suggestions based on your > expertise is exactly what you're customer is buying. > > Given that context using the phrase "I suggest" is entirely > appropriate. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
