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Whether your organization is desperately seeking new talent or drastically laying off workers, it’s the right time to focus your learning and development efforts on employee upskilling.
Business is down. Costs are up. Driving new business with winning proposals has moved up the priority list from “good to do when I have time” to Must. Do. Today.
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In his popular Ted Talk, psychologist Dan Gilbert says that human beings are “works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.”
These days, every handshake is a risk, and we’re not talking about COVID-19.
When crafting proposals, writers often battle strict deadlines, page limits, reused content, and multiple authors. Efficiency is critical, so many proposal writers seek out new tools and technology[...]
Requests for proposals are receiving record numbers of applications, so you need to stand out. After all, you’re confident your solution is the best fit. But sending in your shiniest marketing[...]
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After five jam-packed sessions, we’ve reached the end of our course on proofreading. Lucky for you, we’re not actually in school—so there’s no test. But we’ll still take time to wrap things up.
We’ve looked at proofreading in Microsoft Word and Google Docs, and now we’ll explore how to proofread PDFs.
In this second session of our proofreading lab, we’ll look at how to proofread in Google Docs. The interface both looks and functions similarly to Microsoft Word, and the same is true for its tools[...]
Salt Lake City, UT
Today, we enter the lab portion of our course on proofreading. If you missed the main class sessions, head back to Proofreading 101 and 102 before continuing on.
