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Reality check alphabet: Key messages Writers who start planning documents by thinking about: their key messages are immediately off track. They’re thinking about what they want to tell their readers.

Latest LinkedIn post. Intelligence - use it or lose it.

Reality check alphabet: Intelligence – use it or lose it The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers. Brian Tracey, Canadian author Like muscular strength, our brain power: atrophies if we don’t use it.

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Reality check alphabet: Illusions ‘The nature of illusion is that it’s designed to make you feel good. About yourself, about your country, about where you’re going – in that sense it functions like a drug.

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Reality check alphabet: Headings need to do more than state the obvious The prime real estate that is a heading should not be squandered on a statement of the obvious. Instead, consider: using readers’ logic to answer the readers’ question, ‘What does this tell me?’ how impressed and relieved your readers will be that you spared them the effort of having to inte...

Latest LinkedIn post - Feedback given as an act of kindness

Reality check alphabet: Feedback given as an act of kindness Consider how: much easier it is to complain to others about someone’s writing rather than giving the writer feedback about it unlikely it is that writers’ skills improve if they don’t receive feedback about how to improve likely it is that writers who don’t receive feedback will fall into th...

Latest LinkedIn post - ‘Nobody plans to fail. They just fail to plan.’

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Latest LinkedIn post - Reality check alphabet: Fuzzy words fail.

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Latest LinkedIn post - feedback for a document's salvation

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Reality check alphabet: Embedding better writing practices - path toward salvation We and third parties such as our customers, partners, and service providers use cookies and similar technologies ("cookies") to provide and secure our Services, to understand and improve their performance, and to serve relevant ads (including job ads) on and off LinkedIn. For more information, see o...

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Reality check alphabet: Eucalyptus philosophy GumLeafGreen’s ‘why’ is to help humans behave more like eucalyptus trees. As another year begins, I invite you to consider whether it might serve you to behave more like a eucalypt and: self-prune (let go of what might compromise the ability to thrive).

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Reality check alphabet: Exception reporting in updates – exceptional! We and third parties such as our customers, partners, and service providers use cookies and similar technologies ("cookies") to provide and secure our Services, to understand and improve their performance, and to serve relevant ads (including job ads) on and off LinkedIn. For more information, see o...

Latest LinkedIn post - Dangers of dashboards alone

Reality check alphabet: Dangers of dashboards alone I learned from a client the fabulous metaphor of a ‘watermelon’ to describe raw data that: appears to be good news (‘green on the outside’) hides the reality of bad news (‘red on the inside’). Only when ‘cut open’ will the watermelon reveal the bad news.

Latest LinkedIn post - Excessive or empty summaries

Reality check alphabet: Excessive or empty summaries (executive or any other kind) When summaries are excessive Here’s a typical definition of a summary (italics added for emphasis): A comprehensive and usually brief recapitulation of previously stated information. One of the many causes of the slow extinction of summaries is that they prompt most writers to summarise (i.

Latest LinkedIn post - environments where summaries belong

Reality check alphabet: Environments where summaries belong Reality check alphabet: Environments where summaries belong Report this post Sue Tomat Sue Tomat Published Aug 31, 2021 + Follow

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Latest LinkedIn post - Reality check alphabet: Engaging?

Reality check alphabet: Engaging? ‘How do I engage my readers?’ I’m asked this question daily. I’ve observed that the most engaging documents are those that enable the readers to get on with their jobs and lives.

Latest LinkedIn post - Delicious or distasteful?

Reality check alphabet: Delicious or distasteful? Reality check alphabet: Delicious or distasteful?Published on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 • 0 Likes • 0 CommentsReport this postSue TomatFollow00ShareLinkedInFacebookTwitter0 Published BySue TomatFollow 0 commentsSign in to leave your com...

Latest LinkedIn article - desperate people sometimes do desperate things.

Reality check alphabet: Desperate people sometimes do desperate things Especially in difficult or desperate times, how can you decide whether to trust your own choices and whom else to trust? During tough times, few of us are at our best and it’s tougher to make wise choices. Sometimes we feel desperate: to get a particular job, or protect or add more value in an exi...