1: The business case for writing skills: You achieve many results by writing. Your team works through text. You hate meetings and you probably can’t reach people by phone without playing telephone tag. They are on another floor, in another building, across the city, state or planet. Text, text, text: the information is on the [...]
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When spellcheckers phayle you – homophone help
Spelling is not a moral issue. It is not an intelligence issue. Good spelling is related to factors like visual sequential memory, and good spellers were born with the talent. Richard Branson and Charles Schwab can’t spell. Spelling bees are just one more way we kill kids’ confidence in schools. Stop apologizing for spelling, and [...]
Can you tell the generation from the writing?
You’re dealing with a client, co-worker, outsource project team member or supplier, and need to guess more about his/her thought style to work more effectively together. You can guess a client’s or remote colleague’s generation from their writing, and give them appropriate service or packaged data. Mature/Traditional: No emoticons. The writer thinks smiley faces are [...]
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