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Not Time Management - Self Management
Why is it that we have invented so many time saving devices to help with our time management skills, and yet we are more stressed than ever? The tools we have put in place to help us manage time are simply not enough. Many years ago businesses had secretaries to help create order and develop communication management systems. With the development of technology and e-mail, we now all need to become our own secretaries so that we can manage the barrage of information we have to deal with on a daily basis. We have embraced technological developments by improving our technical skills, but we now live in an instant society where it is easy to drown in the information overload, and unless we are trained administrators, this information can cause immeasurable wasted time.
Better Business Writing Blog 3: Business Writing / E-mail Checklist
Business Writing Skills used to be the domain of a select few people who were responsible for writing correspondence, but, thanks to e-mail, nowadays almost every person in a business needs good business writing skills. The importance of correct and accurate business writing cannot be overemphasised. In the business world, unclear and inaccurate writing leads to misunderstandings that can be both embarrassing and costly. Here is a quick checklist that you can use as a tool to help you avoid making unnecessary blunders when communicating in writing.
Better Business Writing Blog 2: How to use Pronouns Correctly
Almost everyone communicates by e-mail nowadays, yet many of us make language errors that detract from the professionalism of business writing. Grammar mistakes make the writer and the company look shabby, and sometimes cause misunderstandings. For instance, is the following sentence correct?:
“Thelma and myself will be leading that project”…
Better Business Writing Blog 1 : How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by E-mail - Tips for Written Communication Skills
Badly written and carelessly worded e-mails wreck work relationships and can cost a company immeasurable damage. The alarming thing is, we often don’t even know when our e-mails have been misunderstood and have caused that client to cancel an order, or that colleague to gossip about us behind our backs. Here is a checklist to see whether your business writing is professional and you can hit “send” without affecting your credibility.
The Human Garden (Corporate Skills Training)
As a communication skills training consultant I sometimes get the feeling that people hope I will arrive at their company and wave my magic corporate training wand, changing people and making everything alright. It makes me think of how I behave myself, when the wet and damp of the Cape Town winter starts to retreat, and spring is in the air… I march off to my local nursery and buy bank-account- crippling volumes of pretty seedlings to try to bring some life back to my bleak garden….
