Archive: writing
Gathering Quality Information Requires Good Questions
Interviewing skills are not the domain only of reporters, police officers, or job recruiters. The ability to ask good questions is important for all business professionals, because the quality of the answers will depend on the questions. We ask questions every day...
What Kind of First Impression Are You Making with Your Writing?
If you go out to lunch with a prospective employer and you tend to drool when you eat, you can forget about that job. First impressions still matter, whether they involve your eating or your writing. People do not need to know exactly what the issue is, whether it...
Improving Your Writing: Four Ways to Sharpen Your Skills
Regardless of how good your writing skills are (or how good you think they are), you don’t know it all. Stay sharp and keep learning. Strong writers draw attention in business, because most people understand that writing is difficult. Some things that we learn...
How to Be a Coaching Editor and Help Writers Develop
A business manager who wants to get the most out of her writers should be a coaching editor who builds a collaborative relationship. Managers might not think of themselves as editors, but they are, given that they oversee the written content that their team produces....By Ken O’Quinn
Focus on Them
Perfect Phrases for Business Letters (McGraw-Hill)
TD at Work — Business Writing for Managers
As a contributing author in this book on leadership, Ken offers insights and tips for managing difficult conversations, providing effective feedback, and being authentic. Order here.
Perfect Phrases for Business Letters (McGraw-Hill)
Provides the right words and phrases for any situation - quickly. The book was reprinted in Japanese because of high-volume sales there.
TD at Work — Business Writing for Managers
The Association for Talent Development invited Ken to write this 22-page booklet for the TD at Work series.
Current Blog Post
Writing to Persuade: Where You Should Position Your Best Option
Positioning information can be an important factor when you are trying to persuade