This is a helpful short video on this topic and a good reminder to think about the business language you are using.

A great video which makes you think about the language that you choose to use when talking to clients and peers.  Enables being able to say or ask for something in the most effective way.

Listening to this short but very powerful video, I came to the realisation of how my business language could be reflecting on how I am perceived as a person. Thinking I am being polite could be coming across as weak, which is deifinately not been my intention.
I need to have a balance between coming across as too weak or too strong. Stop using words in my emails like "I just want to " or "Sorry to trouble you" which I do use a lot and start being more confident with my words. I understand now, if I want to achieve results, I need to be more sure of myself. If I do not have the confidence in my own words, how do I expect anyone else to trust what I am saying.