What’s the pro’s secret? Preparation. Managing information can prepare you for success and tame the fears, doubts and pitfalls that come naturally with communicating, especially when we attach extra importance to it. We may want to sell, persuade or influence. We may simply want to connect with people and be accepted or liked. Our messages are best delivered if they move through these distinct stages of preparation towards our reading, or listening audience:
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Communication Culture: What happens after you write hello?
on March 10th, 2010
Words, punctuation, sentence length and even layout can help animate your message in your absence, by remote on paper or online in text.
Serve Your Finest Lines in Good Time
on October 1st, 2009
Writers, like some fine wines, need time to breathe. They layer inspiration and craft, as wines unfolds its layers or aroma and colour while we watch it develop in the vessel it was poured into. Our patience is rewarded. In the meanwhile we enjoy the rich colour and bouquet that is maturing before our eyes,
Writing to Be Read…… or Heard
on September 10th, 2009
Criteria for today’s communication culture calls on your ability to get to the point sooner and faster.