BUSINESS ENGLISH WORD OF THE DAY: FAILURE

BUSINESS ENGLISH WORD OF THE DAY: FAILURE 

The manager felt like a failure when her team failed to meet the deadline.

French Translation: échec

Everybody fails at one point or another. We have failures both in our professional and personal lives. But which is more painful? To fail in your professional life or to experience failure in your personal life? Or is it a toss-up?

At work, even CEOs fail from time to time. Many have admitted that they were surprised when these failures occurred because they are often hired because they had been "successful" in prior positions, perhaps in other companies and they expected the success streak to continue, and low and behold, it does not. At the new company, the strategies that worked at the old company simply fall flat on their faces.

This could lead the CEO to be ousted, though not necessarily. It depends on the particular circumstances that led to the failure and the impact this has on the company.

It is not only CEOs that fail. Employees can also experience failure at work in so many different ways. 

The failure could be as simple as failing the TOEIC exam, which that employee needed to get a promotion or even get the job. That is, many companies now require their workers to have a certain level of English. They require proof of the employee's level and this often means taking an exam like TOEIC.

The key to overcoming failure is to keep trying. Sometimes it means changing the strategies but other times it means doubling down on the strategies and putting in more time.

Failure is an opportunity to improve and stretch and grow. No one should let "failure" keep them from striving to achieve their goals.