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15 / 03 / 18
How to avoid the biggest mistake in business writing
Mention writing skills to most people and they will roll their eyes before launching into a confession about how spelling/grammar/punctuation/all three have always been their weakest link. Yet, when they do, they’re missing the point. These things matter, for sure. An email full of typos or a poorly punctuated proposal will almost certainly undermine your […]
02 / 02 / 18
How to fix the 7 most common glitches in technical writing
Most of us are technical writers at some point or other, even if we don’t realise it. You may be quite happy with the label if you write test reports or standard operating procedures. But you can have a very different role and still sometimes need to write technical things: a design brief, an employee […]
14 / 09 / 17
Transforming business writing in the Land of the Thunder Dragon
We’ll go wherever the training need is – whether that’s Norwich, New York or the Netherlands. But even we were surprised to get a call from a tiny Buddhist country in the Eastern Himalayas. That call was from nobody less than Chewang Rinzin, the Deputy Chamberlain to His Majesty the King of Bhutan. It quickly became […]
06 / 07 / 17
How to improve your business writing
As soon as you type a word, you’ve put something out there that you can be judged on. Are you a competent professional? Are you clever? Are you the kind of person who should be taken seriously? From lawyers at top City law firms and project managers in the public sector to bid writers for […]
30 / 06 / 16
How do you make writing engaging?
How can you make your writing engaging? Or, more specifically, how can you make your business writing engaging? Why, surely that’s a contradiction in terms! Right …? A lot of people do seem to make a distinction between 1) Work Writing, and 2) Pretty Much Every Other Kind of Writing. It essentially amounts to this: […]
20 / 05 / 16
Writing for the board? Here’s what you really need to know
‘What people don’t realise,’ Nick said, ‘is that I’m just like them. I get tired. I worry about stuff. I think maybe I should get to the gym more. And I have too much on my plate. I’m not superhuman.’ Nick is the European COO of a company that employs 130,000 people. He’s 46, and […]