Revising for Clarity and Conciseness [LO-1]

Revise the following sentence to make it clearer and more direct. Feel free to break it into two sentences, if you prefer. This job requires someone with both tact and perseverance, because you don’t have authority over other people, but your success depends on getting them to perform certain tasks, and you need to persuade them to perform these tasks and not be afraid to follow up to make sure the tasks get done.