Want to be a hero? Save your organization from bad writing! In fact, taking the writing hero’s journey can yield rich rewards in producing measurably better business results. Here’s how to save the day from writing woes, step by step.
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.
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.
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.
Want to make your workplace writing process both more efficient and more effective? Here are six easy techniques to immediately improve professional writing workflows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) can be more powerful than most organizations realize.
When developed and deployed correctly, SOPs can drive greater employee productivity, improve organizational efficiency, and reduce costs
We know a couple who were in the market for a new vacuum cleaner. They went to the store, checked out various models, and found one that seemed, at first glance, to have the right features and a fair price.
It is no secret to anyone in business that writing, and writing well, is critical, whether that writing is in the form of emails, whitepapers, proposals, or reports.
Critical thinking is the process of identifying and solving problems by gathering information, analyzing and evaluating evidence, discovering patterns, and reasoning logically.
After 3+ decades teaching professional writing, we’ve learned a thing or two about what makes an effective writing course. Here are five hard-won lessons from the field.
Writing is extremely important for engineers, yet academia puts so little emphasis on it that it's no wonder engineers often fail to understand the crucial role it plays in their work.
While AI has revolutionized many aspects of business operations, it doesn't replace the need for quality writing; in fact, it amplifies the importance of content written by humans.
In business, time is a precious resource. Writing that falls short can have a significant ripple effect on productivity. The good news is that even modest improvements in writing can pay dividends.
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.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) can be more powerful than most organizations realize.
When developed and deployed correctly, SOPs can drive greater employee productivity, improve organizational efficiency, and reduce costs
We know a couple who were in the market for a new vacuum cleaner. They went to the store, checked out various models, and found one that seemed, at first glance, to have the right features and a fair price.
It is no secret to anyone in business that writing, and writing well, is critical, whether that writing is in the form of emails, whitepapers, proposals, or reports.
Critical thinking is the process of identifying and solving problems by gathering information, analyzing and evaluating evidence, discovering patterns, and reasoning logically.
After 3+ decades teaching professional writing, we’ve learned a thing or two about what makes an effective writing course. Here are five hard-won lessons from the field.
Writing is extremely important for engineers, yet academia puts so little emphasis on it that it's no wonder engineers often fail to understand the crucial role it plays in their work.
While AI has revolutionized many aspects of business operations, it doesn't replace the need for quality writing; in fact, it amplifies the importance of content written by humans.
In business, time is a precious resource. Writing that falls short can have a significant ripple effect on productivity. The good news is that even modest improvements in writing can pay dividends.
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.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) can be more powerful than most organizations realize.
When developed and deployed correctly, SOPs can drive greater employee productivity, improve organizational efficiency, and reduce costs
We know a couple who were in the market for a new vacuum cleaner. They went to the store, checked out various models, and found one that seemed, at first glance, to have the right features and a fair price.
It is no secret to anyone in business that writing, and writing well, is critical, whether that writing is in the form of emails, whitepapers, proposals, or reports.
Critical thinking is the process of identifying and solving problems by gathering information, analyzing and evaluating evidence, discovering patterns, and reasoning logically.
After 3+ decades teaching professional writing, we’ve learned a thing or two about what makes an effective writing course. Here are five hard-won lessons from the field.
Writing is extremely important for engineers, yet academia puts so little emphasis on it that it's no wonder engineers often fail to understand the crucial role it plays in their work.
While AI has revolutionized many aspects of business operations, it doesn't replace the need for quality writing; in fact, it amplifies the importance of content written by humans.
In business, time is a precious resource. Writing that falls short can have a significant ripple effect on productivity. The good news is that even modest improvements in writing can pay dividends.
