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Tell them to start a blog. Having to put your writing out there is creating the tension necessary to self-improve. It also depends on what limitations you can
by charles_f 4y ago
Tell them to start a blog.
Having to put your writing out there is creating the tension necessary to self-improve.
It also depends on what limitations you can see.
- Sometimes the problem is grammar and orthographic, in which case there's not much substitute to practice - pay attention to those ~~~ underlines in Word, write a lot and get corrected?
- Sometimes is with the flow of the document. It doesn't have the right level of details, it doesn't flow properly and is hard to follow. We have a couple training available for story-telling internally, they're not bad but they're internal. I've never really researched the topic deeply to be honest. From the feedback I receive, I'm blessed with decent writing skills - most of what I do is usually provide feedback on issues I can see: redundancy, improper level of detail, over-verbosity, lack of logic in the structure, putting the solution last, lack of an exec summary, lack of context, lack of diagrams, etc. Once again, practice ;
- Also setting the expectations (i.e. explaining why it's important, and stating that you expect them to proactively make an effort on that front). Sometimes when I see a repeating problem I make sure that they make a note of it ; it's crazy to me how sometimes people crave for feedback but don't write it down.
The fact that they identified that is 80% of the solution though, it is much harder to help someone who doesn't see that as a problem to begin with.