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Posted by: Rob Ashton
13 / 05 / 25
When many people set out to write a report or proposal, they start with a standard template or adapt a previous document. On the surface, this makes sense. After all, why waste time reinventing the wheel? Surely anything that reduces the effort of writing has to be a good thing? Usually, yes, but not in […]
15 / 04 / 25
I hope you are well. No really – I do. But have you ever noticed how those five words have become the default opener for almost every email? Why do we write that? My colleague Catie recently pondered this question on LinkedIn, after seeing a jokey post about it on the social media site Tumblr […]
Posted by: Stephanie Joy Hubbard
14 / 04 / 25
If ‘excitement’ doesn’t quite sum up your feelings about AI right now, what does? Discomfort? Frustration? Denial? If so, you’re not alone. This surge of AI activity in the tech world – and in the media – marks one of the biggest shifts in technology and our working lives in living memory. And when tectonic […]
19 / 03 / 25
You might think of artificial intelligence mainly as a new way to draft short emails or outline reports in seconds. If you do, you’re in good company. To most people outside the scientific community, it probably feels like AI was invented overnight when ChatGPT burst onto the scene in 2022. But AI isn’t new. What’s […]
18 / 03 / 25
AI is already transforming how many of us write. But evidence is beginning to emerge that it may also be harming our organisations in a way that could be hard to undo. The tech definitely has the potential to be a huge help for hard-pressed knowledge workers, who spend much of their time typing text […]
11 / 03 / 25
I’ll never forget the first time I was asked to write a report. I had recently graduated and was two months into a new job with the Environmental Health department of a local authority in Swindon. The day before, I’d accompanied my manager on his safety inspection of a Royal Mail regional distribution hub. It […]
25 / 02 / 25
Simplicity is often misunderstood and underrated. One of the biggest myths in business writing is that complex topics need complex documents. The more important the topic, the more complex we think our writing needs to be – especially when the stakes are high. Writing to the board? Better stretch it to a ten-pager then. They’ll […]
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