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Ideas to help your team develop personally and professionally.

Ban them?

Yep. They're stuffy. You'll come across as a bureaucrat if you use them. They are not more professional - just poor communication and not plain English.

I've left out the worst ones, such as 'With reference to our recent correspondence...' because we would only send those to a colleague when we are kidding around - surely.

Make your writing simple, informal and direct. Become passionate about lapses in those simple principles. Ban them from all your writing.

A few examples...

  1. What professional writers really do
  2. Business writing: Make your business writing intimate
  3. English wasn't my thing at school - can I still be a good writer?
  4. Vlogs: useful ideas on writing in less than two minutes