by support | Sep 30, 2014 | Mastering Workplace Challenges, Written Communication Skills
“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.” W.H.Auden...
by support | Sep 30, 2014 | Written Communication Skills
“Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.” Will Cuppy Good email etiquette is definitely about quality rather than quantity. There are no formal rules about how to use email but you can cultivate good...
by Maureen Steele | Oct 24, 2013 | Interpersonal Communication, Written Communication Skills
Communication is commonly talked about in terms of a cycle. In any communication, the principal characters are known as the sender and the receiver: Ideas exist in the sender’s brain as electrochemical neuron systems, not words. Encoding is what happens when we...
by Maureen Steele | Mar 27, 2013 | Communication Skills For Job Seekers, Responding To Change and Transition, Written Communication Skills
In these days of on-line applications and e-mail, you may think that a cover letter is no longer important. This is NOT the case although it is fair to say that cover letters now come in various formats, of which the traditional letter is only one; it may be an e-mail...
by Maureen Steele | Mar 27, 2013 | Communication Skills For Job Seekers, Written Communication Skills
When someone opens an envelope or looks at your files on their PC, what they see in front of them delivers an impression of you as a potential employee or colleague. Before they even get to reading the content, the visual attractiveness of your documents ( or lack...