Struggling to switch from UK understatement to US directness without losing credibility? This lesson gives you a precise HEDGE toggle—hedge density, evidentials, directness verbs, governance stance, and English variants—so you can calibrate tone by market and deliver decisions with the right signal. You’ll get clear explanations, finance-grade examples and dialogues, plus targeted exercises (MCQs, fill‑in‑the‑blanks, and error correction) to lock the skill. Finish able to tune slides, emails, and live Q&A for UK prudence or US accountability—on purpose, under pressure.
Sound Senior in the C‑Suite: Calibrating Executive Register for UK BoardroomsWorried your delivery sounds enthusiastic but not quite board-ready? This lesson equips you to calibrate an executive UK register—authority through restraint—so you sound senior in the C‑suite and credible in the boardroom. You’ll get a clear diagnostic of what “sounding senior” means, a practical language toolkit (hedging, lexis, tone, prosody), channel-specific guidance for slides, emails, and spoken updates, plus real examples and targeted exercises to lock it in. Expect minimalist, data-led phrasing you can deploy immediately—concise, neutral, and comfortable under scrutiny.