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Writing Skills Grammar Ain’t Your Team’s Writing Issue It’s important to think more critically about who you’re writing for and what you’re trying to accomplish, rather than to be constrained or worried about whether you’re following the proper grammar rules. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills The Business Benefits of Developing Employee Writing Skills Writing training has the potential to produce huge benefits for professional organizations, but it’s not always clear what benefits an organization can reasonably expect. In what ways does improving written communication abilities translate into actual business outcomes? February 28, 2024

Writing Skills Finding the Right Word There are 6 common reasons people have trouble finding the right word. Check out this list of tips, tools, and best practices to choose the best one. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills How to Reduce Writing Time You can reduce the time you spend writing and still produce great documents! Read more to find out how. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills Serve Up the Best Words to Your Reader with These 5 Tips One word can make all the difference in your presentation or document. Learn how to pick the most effective ones. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills The 3 pillars of writing genuinely useful feedback and performance reviews Do performance reviews really work to improve workplace behavior? They do if they’re well-written! February 28, 2024

Writing Skills Grammar Spotlight: A Deep Dive into Punctuation Punctuation seems so simple and obvious that it can be surprising how many controversies surround it. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills How Better Writing in Proposals will Lead to More Closed Deals Read these simple tips to learn how to write winning proposals. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills The 8 Biggest Drivers of the Importance of Professional Writing Professional writing skills are necessary in all fields and can greatly impact your professional image. As Bindu Ranaut, an instructor at West Coast University in Irvine, California writes in the International Journal of Language and Linguistics: “Communication skills, including writing, are one of the most important transferable skills that workers possess.” February 28, 2024

Writing Skills 9 Project Milestone Examples for a Better Writing Process and Experience What is a project milestone? Simply stated, a milestone is an achievement that brings you closer to the completion of a larger project. Each milestone falls on the project timeline with its own deadline and is recognized when reached. Project milestones are distinct from tasks, which are the individual actions that people take in pursuit of each milestone and, ultimately, project completion. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills 8 Ways for Your Team to Strengthen Their Technical Writing Skills Technical writing refers to any documentation that helps explain technical, technological, or scientific subject matter for a reader that needs instruction, learning, or understanding. February 28, 2024

Writing Skills How to Improve Your Writing Skills | 4 Simple Hacks Language can make or break a document. We’ve all read documents that have been difficult to get through; often, the blame for this can be attributed to the use of expletives (aka lazy pronouns), overused phrases, buzzwords, too many words, needlessly pompous words, and the inappropriate use of verbs and active and passive voice. February 28, 2024

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