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Missed Potential and Unknown Losses: The Invisible Costs Your Organization Pays for Bad Writing

Subpar writing always incurs an invisible cost. It’s not just the ways bad writing fails to achieve intended goals. There are also unknown losses because your organization doesn’t realize what would be possible with better written materials. Here’s what you need to know.
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How to Choose a Professional Training Service That Can Both Diagnose AND Fix Your Team’s Writing Problems

When your organization is facing possible problems with its writers or writing processes, be wary of self-diagnosing the cause. Instead, get input from professionals who can BOTH accurately diagnose the underlying cause AND offer a portfolio of fixes.
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Missed Potential and Unknown Losses: The Invisible Costs of Poor Writing

Subpar writing always incurs an invisible cost. It’s not just the ways bad writing fails to achieve intended goals. There are also unknown losses because your organization doesn’t realize what would be possible with better written materials. Here’s what you need to know.
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6 Ways to Make Your Workplace Writing Process More Efficient and Effective

Want to make your workplace writing process both more efficient and more effective? Here are six easy techniques to immediately improve professional writing workflows.
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What Can Be Done to Fix your Team’s Writing Issues?

If you’ve noticed the symptoms of writing problems – anything from writing tasks taking too much time to business outcomes falling short of objectives – but aren’t sure what to do about it, learn how to diagnose and fix what afflicts your team’s ailing writing process.
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Why Writing is the True Deliverable and Why it Matters

Too many workers – and sometimes entire organizations – treat writing as though it’s an add-on task that’s secondary to their “main” work, not realizing that writing IS core work, and oftentimes the deliverable, serving as the connective tissue between objectives and achievements.
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Is Your Team Writing to Appease the Boss or Serve the Company?

What do you do when the personal tastes of one person end up commandeering the entire writing process at a company? Unfortunately, this situation can be more damaging to the business than it first appears. Learn how to spot this problem and fix it.
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4 Ways to Improve Your Team’s Professional Writing Skills Fast

The pros at Hurley Write share their top four ways to tangibly improve the quality of your team’s writing outputs TODAY.
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Finding the “Signal” Versus the Noise in Your Writing

Boosting the signal strength of your written content is a powerful way to ensure your team’s writing achieves its objectives and improves business outcomes.
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The Importance of “Flow” in Writing: An Often Overlooked Key to Great Writing

When a document leads the reader through a logical structure, the reader can connect ideas and remember the material. Apply these smart structures to your writing
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Don’t Think Your Team Has Writing Problems? Don’t Be So Sure.

Your employees can write better than they currently are. In fact, the companies that see the best returns are ones where writing isn’t a core business activity.
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Can Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Help with More Than Just Speech Writing?

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence suggests a five-step structure to persuade audiences to act. Apply this to your documents for great results.
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Hidden, Unexpected Ways Writing Training Helps the Whole Company

Writing training helps the entire company produce better outcomes and keep customers happy. Discover how investing in writing training improves the bottom line.
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Creating a Collaborative Document Review Process

Is your team’s document review process hostile? You can foster a collaborative and effective review process using these 6 tips.
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How Writing Training Can Help with Employee Retention and Recruitment

Including writing training in your employee development program can improve talent recruitment, employee retention, and overall revenue. Discover how!
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How to Create Job Aids that Actually Work

Job aids — written instructions for how to perform certain tasks —ensure that work is done correctly and on time. Write great ones using these 5 tips.
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3 Reasons Leadership Programs Need Writing Training

There’s a direct correlation between the ability of a leader to communicate well with others and the leader’s overall effectiveness.
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The SMART Way to Review and Edit Documents

You likely have SMART goals for your organization, but did you know that the SMART criteria can help your team more efficiently review documents?
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Reviewers Matter as Much as Writers: The Review Process Is Key to Great Writing

Writing a document that achieves its goals? Good writing skills aren’t enough. You need an effective review and editing process too.
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Tips for Getting Past Writer’s Block

In most cases, writer’s block is temporary. Here are 6 tips to get inspired to begin your next writing project.
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Why Your Writing Is Persuasive (Even If You Think It’s Not)

Even if you’re not trying to get someone to change their mind, you are trying to persuade them that you’re intelligent, professional, and that your document is worth reading. Here are 6 tips to convince readers or compel action.
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The Most Common Grammatical Errors – and Why They’re Not All Errors

Are there specific grammatical errors that plague writers more often than others? That’s a question a pair of researchers wanted to answer, so they evaluated the writing in over...
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How Critical Thinking in Writing Works: Understanding its Role in the Writing Process

When writers fail to think critically about their writing projects, documents can easily fall flat as tepid and unpersuasive, generating little to no impact on the reader.  Worse, ineffective writing might leave readers thinking that writers don't know what they’re talking about...
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10 Quick Tips to Improve your Writing

Many writers don’t take much time to plan; in fact, many simply begin writing, believing that their first draft will become their final draft with just a little “cleaning up” and reorganization.
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How to Align your Branding Across All Your Communications

Communication skills are vital to effective company branding. We discussed this idea in our white paper, "Beef up your communication skills to strengthen your business brand." By cultivating a specific impression...
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Beef Up your Team’s Communication Skills to Strengthen Your Business Brand

Building a clear and effective business brand is critical in today's world. People are bombarded by a continuous stream of information that saps attention and crowds out any individual communication with ceaseless noise.
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The Documents Your Organization Produces are Your True Deliverable. Here’s What Makes Them So Important

In our day to day work, we can forget that customers and clients don’t necessarily see what we do. In other words, they can’t come and sit with you while you work.
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Fundamentals of Excellent Science Writing

Science writing is getting worse, according to science. In 2017, Swedish researchers reviewed over 700,000 English-language biomedical abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 to understand how scientific and medical writing has changed over time.
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Creating a Better Feedback and Editing Process

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of bad business writing.
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Applying the Fogg Behavioral Model to your writing to ensure readers do what you want.

In the business world, writing has a job to do. You don’t write just for the pleasure of it. You write to bring about change in the reader. What that “something” is can vary.
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The Master List of Organizational Strategies: How to Structure your Written Work for Maximum Impact

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of poor writing skills in business.
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The Most Common Grammatical Errors – and Why They’re Not All Errors

Are there specific grammatical errors that plague writers more often than others? That’s a question a pair of researchers wanted to answer, so they evaluated the writing in over...
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3 minutes read

How Critical Thinking in Writing Works: Understanding its Role in the Writing Process

When writers fail to think critically about their writing projects, documents can easily fall flat as tepid and unpersuasive, generating little to no impact on the reader.  Worse, ineffective writing might leave readers thinking that writers don't know what they’re talking about...
Read more
5 minutes read

10 Quick Tips to Improve your Writing

Many writers don’t take much time to plan; in fact, many simply begin writing, believing that their first draft will become their final draft with just a little “cleaning up” and reorganization.
Read more
5 minutes read

How to Align your Branding Across All Your Communications

Communication skills are vital to effective company branding. We discussed this idea in our white paper, "Beef up your communication skills to strengthen your business brand." By cultivating a specific impression...
Read more
4 minutes read

Beef Up your Team’s Communication Skills to Strengthen Your Business Brand

Building a clear and effective business brand is critical in today's world. People are bombarded by a continuous stream of information that saps attention and crowds out any individual communication with ceaseless noise.
Read more
3 minutes read

The Documents Your Organization Produces are Your True Deliverable. Here’s What Makes Them So Important

In our day to day work, we can forget that customers and clients don’t necessarily see what we do. In other words, they can’t come and sit with you while you work.
Read more
4 minutes read

Fundamentals of Excellent Science Writing

Science writing is getting worse, according to science. In 2017, Swedish researchers reviewed over 700,000 English-language biomedical abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 to understand how scientific and medical writing has changed over time.
Read more
4 minutes read

Creating a Better Feedback and Editing Process

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of bad business writing.
Read more
3 minutes read

Applying the Fogg Behavioral Model to your writing to ensure readers do what you want.

In the business world, writing has a job to do. You don’t write just for the pleasure of it. You write to bring about change in the reader. What that “something” is can vary.
Read more
4 minutes read

The Master List of Organizational Strategies: How to Structure your Written Work for Maximum Impact

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of poor writing skills in business.
Read more
3 minutes read

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The Most Common Grammatical Errors – and Why They’re Not All Errors

Are there specific grammatical errors that plague writers more often than others? That’s a question a pair of researchers wanted to answer, so they evaluated the writing in over...
Read more
3 minutes read

How Critical Thinking in Writing Works: Understanding its Role in the Writing Process

When writers fail to think critically about their writing projects, documents can easily fall flat as tepid and unpersuasive, generating little to no impact on the reader.  Worse, ineffective writing might leave readers thinking that writers don't know what they’re talking about...
Read more
5 minutes read

10 Quick Tips to Improve your Writing

Many writers don’t take much time to plan; in fact, many simply begin writing, believing that their first draft will become their final draft with just a little “cleaning up” and reorganization.
Read more
5 minutes read

How to Align your Branding Across All Your Communications

Communication skills are vital to effective company branding. We discussed this idea in our white paper, "Beef up your communication skills to strengthen your business brand." By cultivating a specific impression...
Read more
4 minutes read

Beef Up your Team’s Communication Skills to Strengthen Your Business Brand

Building a clear and effective business brand is critical in today's world. People are bombarded by a continuous stream of information that saps attention and crowds out any individual communication with ceaseless noise.
Read more
3 minutes read

The Documents Your Organization Produces are Your True Deliverable. Here’s What Makes Them So Important

In our day to day work, we can forget that customers and clients don’t necessarily see what we do. In other words, they can’t come and sit with you while you work.
Read more
4 minutes read

Fundamentals of Excellent Science Writing

Science writing is getting worse, according to science. In 2017, Swedish researchers reviewed over 700,000 English-language biomedical abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 to understand how scientific and medical writing has changed over time.
Read more
4 minutes read

Creating a Better Feedback and Editing Process

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of bad business writing.
Read more
3 minutes read

Applying the Fogg Behavioral Model to your writing to ensure readers do what you want.

In the business world, writing has a job to do. You don’t write just for the pleasure of it. You write to bring about change in the reader. What that “something” is can vary.
Read more
4 minutes read

The Master List of Organizational Strategies: How to Structure your Written Work for Maximum Impact

Believe it or not, bad writing is costing your organization big time. A former Senior VP at Forrester Research and best-selling author, Josh Bernoff, studied the cost impacts of poor writing skills in business.
Read more
3 minutes read
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