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Posted by: Catie Holdridge
10 / 01 / 10
Remember last year: the pain of putting off that report day after day, finally bashing it out in a blind panic the night before it was due? Not only does this leave you a stress-addled mess, but it means your cobbled-together work won’t represent the best you can actually do. It could even mean […]
01 / 01 / 10
Free podcasts offer expert help with writing reports, proposals, emails and more A new source of free help is at hand for anyone who has ever grappled with writing a ‘make or break’ proposal or report, or wondered how best to handle sensitive customer correspondence. It comes in the shape of a series of podcasts […]
10 / 12 / 09
So, those emoticon smiles: what else can they be used for? Round brackets Imagine the contents of round brackets (or parentheses) as an aside that might be said behind your hand (an actor on a stage might anyway). These punctuation marks come in handy to: include optional information You don’t have much time left to […]
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13 / 11 / 09
When most people think of Leonardo da Vinci, they think of him as the artist who painted The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But da Vinci was also an inventor, an architect, a musician and an engineer. To be successful as a nurse manager, you need to adopt da Vinci’s Renaissance approach. Aside from […]
07 / 08 / 09
Whether the message is good, bad or indifferent; now is no time for silence, says Rob Ashton. During the ancient wars, if you wanted to deliver a message you hired a messenger to hand over the scroll personally. But approaching enemy lines to pass on bad news was a high-risk job. The bearer of […]
16 / 07 / 09
Someone once said that writing is easy. You just sit at your keyboard and wait – till the beads of blood form on your forehead. For anyone who has ever suffered from writer’s block (and that’s all of us), this will be a familiar scenario. It doesn’t have to be that way though: you can […]
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