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[QW6] Is ‘Everyone has …’ or ‘… have …’ correct?
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] If you've followed along with the Quick Wins from the beginning, this is where it starts paying off! In [QW1], we discussed a team is a collection of people making up: A group An...
4 money-saving steps to your first draft
It's an unhappy moment. An editor tells an author they need the first draft copy before editing can begin. The writer is dumbfounded. Isn't that what they emailed? No. They sent months (or years) of musings. Maybe the file was run through spell check. But it's...
[QW5] “It’s” vs. “Its”
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Here is a problematic word puzzler where one outlier does not follow the rule. [QW5] "It's" vs. "Its" We often find an apostrophe demonstrating ownership: The dog's bone A...
“Am I a good work-from-home candidate?”
Someone just screamed at their phone: "NO!" And I sympathize. In February...
[QW4] ‘Democratic’ vs. ‘Democrat’
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Okay, pet peeve time. We in the U.S. are ramping up to an election in early November. And I guarantee: we will hear and see the word 'democratic' misused 99% of the time between...
A fresh look @ follow-up
When my friend Shawn and I talked about meeting reminders, she gave me another excellent idea to research and share with you: “I’d like to find the best way to follow-up and thank clients. Has the etiquette around thank-you notes changed?” Funny you should ask. When I...
[QW3] Don’t confuse ‘I’ and ‘me’
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] One of the most difficult things to get right in sentences is 'I' and 'me.' [QW3] Don't confuse 'I' and 'me' Let me show you two correct examples, and then explain the method I...
“Why is it so hard to find good employees?”
When I asked you for 2020 blog post ideas, this question came back from...
[QW2] Never (!) refer to people as ‘that’
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Welcome back to Quick Wins for those pesky 'word puzzlers' in our lives. This month's offering is one of my biggies: [QW2] Never (!) refer to people as 'that' If you've ever...
A fresh look @ meeting reminders
One great thing about asking your subscribers for blog post topics? They come up with countless ideas. Thanks to Margie G., an executive assistant for a racing team, we'll consider useful meeting reminders. The question that started it all As you might imagine,...
[QW1] Companies and groups are not people!
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Hey! What's all this 'QW' stuff in the headline?! Well-l-l, I recently looked back through some project management notes, where I discovered a pattern of easy-to-fix tech...
Project communication = everything
A few years ago, I watched a video about Walmart's company strategies. No...
A fun look at the Oxford comma squabble!
Hey, everyone! A bit of a change-up, this month, as I give you a peek into my world of writing. OH! No, no, no! Don't click away! I promise: you're going to have fun. Here we go …. Try this when you get bored: 1. Corral a few writers in a room. 2. Ask, "Do you use the...
Step 7 to Non-Overwhelm: “Wrangle your admin and paperwork!”
[ This post is the base for Chapter 3 in my book, Welcome to Non-Overwhelm! ] Hey, fellow business owners! It is February. If you're in the northern hemisphere, like I am, you're probably asking, "Will this yucky weather e-v-e-r end?" [ And for my Aussie...
Risk management disaster: DON’T follow the ‘Dreamliner’ example!
Did you hear the one about the super-duper-best-thing-since-whatever...
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