Words are the medium for conducting business, so make them work for you. Increasing your skill & comfort with written language, Appendance is where words work.
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"When examining the talent at any organization look at the culture, not the rhetoric....Despite some of the delusional perspective in the corner office, when we interview their employees, here’s what they tell us..."
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Not all superheroes are mothers. But all mothers are superheroes. Happy #MothersDay 💜
People size you up in seconds, but what exactly are they evaluating?
In her new book, "Presence," Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy says that people quickly answer two questions when they first meet you...
businessinsider.com/harvard-…
It's not that we're huge Star Wars fans...we just REALLY like word puns 😂 #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Interesting product find:
This colorful chart shows the evolution of the alphabet over the last 4000 years, from Proto-Sinaitic, through Phoenician and Greek, to Latin.
Check it out at ow.ly/fUtt50EAVLk
Writing Tip of the day:
PROOFREADING
We talk a lot about grammar but realized we haven't talked a lot about proofreading. Proofreading, editing, revising, copyediting: these are all terms that we use to talk about what we do to our writing after we have written it.
#tipoftheday
Some funny translations to spice up your Wednesday evening
Warning: mature content
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Here’s the tiny—yet brilliant—‘short email’ rule one web designer created to manage his overflowing inbox problem... cnbc.com/2021/03/08/how-to-m… #email #businesstips
"As a species, humans are highly face-attuned. In any language, your face serves as a powerful tool for social communication, wordlessly transmitting a whole range of messages about things like pain, love, fear and pleasure."
Read on at ow.ly/3fj650ExPPq #articleoftheday
Regards,
Best,
Blah blah blecch,
Email sign-offs are getting really old these days, so here are a few alternatives...
inc.com/the-muse/email-sign-… #email #businesscommunication
Writing Tip of the day:
TONE
In our seminars recently, we’ve been getting a lot of questions about tone. People feel that they themselves or others are too “abrupt” or “brusque” in email. This is not uncommon.
#writingtips #tipoftheday #tone #businesswriting
This article is a fascinating exploration of prejudice and how synchronous actions can combat it. “You tend to like people more and become more prosocial if you engage in synchronous behavior with them..."
Read the full article at ow.ly/gLHf50Eufs8 #corporateculture
Quick update: the full blog post for our most recent #writingtipoftheday --FOR GODSAKE INSTALL GRAMMARLY--is up on our website now. Check it out! appendance.com/blog/2021/4/1… #professionaldevelopment
The Case for Semicolons
There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside.
Here's why: nytimes.com/2021/02/09/magaz… #articleoftheday #punctuation
Well now that #taxday is over we can all rest easy right? Right...?
WRONG. Now we have to file our individual taxes 😭 Good thing the real #taxday2021 isn't until May🙏
