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Posted by: Rob Ashton
16 / 12 / 15
At this time of year, our thoughts inevitably turn to fresh starts and making resolutions for better ways to live and work. If you’ve pledged to give up cake or make the gym your second home, you’re certainly in good company. My friend Philippa is one of many who have declared this ‘Dry January’ (which […]
Posted by: Jacob Funnell
16 / 10 / 15
When you’ve finished an email, all you need is a friendly, professional sign off. And there’s one popular choice. That choice is ‘Kind regards’. For most work emails, it’s hard to go wrong with this. It’s succinct and it’s professional. Yet every week, I get emails from people who sign off like this: ‘Kind Regards’. So […]
14 / 05 / 15
There’s no getting away from it: research is addictive. And there’s a good reason for that – we’re all hard-wired to search. It’s a survival mechanism, programmed into us by evolution. As hunter-gatherers on the savannah, we needed something that would shake us from our slumber; that would make us get off our fur-clad backsides […]
06 / 05 / 15
Our courses are transformative. It’s the norm for participants to leave the training room full of confidence and buzzing with ideas. This is true even for people who were initially sceptical. (In fact, they often end up as our biggest advocates.) But even the best training can only go so far. New skills stay in […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
30 / 04 / 15
In case you’ve missed it, there’s an election looming large here in the UK. But did the parties just throw away their opportunity to write manifestos that would win our hearts, minds and votes? If you’ve been on one of our courses, you’ll know that detailed document analysis plays a key part in all our […]
23 / 03 / 15
Very often, people who struggle with business English as a second language assume all their problems stem from the fact that it’s not their native tongue. But the truth is that many native speakers share the same problems. That’s because there are five fundamentals of good writing that apply to all documents, no matter what […]
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