Posted April 24, 2018
These days, businesses have more options than ever when it comes to employee training. That wealth of choices means organizations can find just the right training paradigm for their needs, but it can be frustratingly difficult to figure out which option is the right one. Even just choosing between the two mainstays of corporate training – workshops and seminars – can be confusing.
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Bad writing costs the U.S. as much as $396 billion annually, in part because “America is spending 6% of total wages on time wasted attempting to get meaning out of poorly written material,” writes Josh Bernoff for The Harvard Business Review.
At the top of the list of time-wasters are overly long content that takes too much time to read and even longer to understand. Yet, “overwriting” is one...
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Posted Feb. 6, 2018
Here’s a hard truth: even very smart people – those who are expert and accomplished in their respective fields – can struggle to write well.
That’s because writing deficiencies, particularly in business environments, are rarely about knowledgeability or talent. Rather, writing demands a set of specialized skills that most people never formally develop. According to Josh...
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Posted Jan. 16, 2018
If you’ve taken a writing course, you know that good writing involves many different skills and principles that must be learned, practiced, and exercised.
Taken a step further, really good writing will even incorporate an understanding of human psychology. In fact, aspects of human psychology can profoundly impact how your readers receive and react to your writing. Here are three examples...
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Some words and phrases are used so often that they lose meaning.
We don’t mean the psychological condition of semantic satiation, where you hear a word so much it temporarily turns into a meaningless series of sounds. Nor do we mean phrases that are commonly used incorrectly, like saying “literally” when you mean “figuratively,” or “I could care less” when you mean “I...
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