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Posted by: Rob Ashton
18 / 03 / 25
AI is already transforming how many of us write. But evidence is beginning to emerge that it may also be harming our organisations in a way that could be hard to undo. The tech definitely has the potential to be a huge help for hard-pressed knowledge workers, who spend much of their time typing text […]
11 / 03 / 25
I’ll never forget the first time I was asked to write a report. I had recently graduated and was two months into a new job with the Environmental Health department of a local authority in Swindon. The day before, I’d accompanied my manager on his safety inspection of a Royal Mail regional distribution hub. It […]
25 / 02 / 25
Simplicity is often misunderstood and underrated. One of the biggest myths in business writing is that complex topics need complex documents. The more important the topic, the more complex we think our writing needs to be – especially when the stakes are high. Writing to the board? Better stretch it to a ten-pager then. They’ll […]
18 / 02 / 25
Years ago, not long after I started Emphasis, I found myself in conversation with a young training manager for one of the UK’s biggest companies. We were meeting to discuss his organisation’s training programme and I was curious to understand what he was focusing on. ‘There’s the usual stuff – meeting skills, presentation skills, report-writing,’ […]
14 / 01 / 25
Many of us are still hoovering up pine needles from the living room carpet. There may even be a lone chocolate rattling around the Quality Street tin on the coffee table. (Orange Cream, anyone?) But countless New Year’s resolutions made when the fairy lights were still twinkling have gone the same way as the tree […]
10 / 12 / 24
Disappointingly, the good people at the Oxford English Dictionary have chosen not to name Documentese as their 2024 Word of the Year. But as their pick was brain rot, I’m calling that a close second. After all, one definitely leads to the other (or to whatever the corporate equivalent is). In the last 12 months, […]
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