Leadership is inherently about communication. Your ability to communicate well with your team, your boss, your co-workers, and anyone else around you can make or break your career as a leader.

Given the importance we place on communications, it always helps to have a few tools and techniques that can give you an edge and make you a more effective communicator. I’d like to share three of my favorite phrases.

Each of these  phrases is very carefully and thoughtfully crafted. If you want to use them effectively, use them exactly as they’re written. Do not modify them because changes you make will change their meaning (and correspondingly yield different results for you). As you try putting them into practice, they may feel awkward or uncomfortable at first. Any new skill you learn feels this way. That said, if you use these phrases regularly and appropriately, you’re likely to have some great results.

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