No business person can afford to be misunderstood. Communication is essential to your success if you want to widen your circle of business contacts, strengthen your relationships or deal with customers. And communication takes place when the reader or listener understands your message.
“The strongest compulsion in the world is not love, and it is not hate; it is one person’s desire to edit another person’s copy.” — H.G. Wells “Infuriating” “Frustrating” “Upsetting” These are some of the words that people use in my trainings to describe their experience when someone in their organization changes their writing without …
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Editing for Others: Don’t Change Just for Change’s Sake “The strongest compulsion in the world is not love, and it is not hate; it is one person’s desire to edit another person’s copy.” — H.G. Wells “Infuriating” “Frustrating” “Upsetting” These are some of the words that people use in my trainings to describe their experience …
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Let’s face it: No one likes to have work corrected. We dream that people will say, “It’s brilliant! It’s perfect! Let’s run with it.” But that doesn’t always happen. In fact, it is much more common to be corrected than to be unconditionally praised. This is part of the writing process. Remember the adage, “Writing …
What is an executive summary? Is it really just a wrap-up of the contents of an entire report or proposal? Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. Before writing one, the first question relates to its purpose. Every document has an overarching purpose and a writer must know the purpose in order to achieve it …
