Freelancers can encourage companies to think outside the box, take risks, and build strategies for thriving.
Why Outsource in 2023 #1: Scale Safely
What freelancers have to offer companies is especially vital in 2023.
From “We’re Done” to “Say More”
Remember the last time you tried to change someone's mind? How you set up your argument may make the difference between convincing your listener and having them walk away.
3 Reasons Imagination Belongs in Your Communication Kit
If you are only developing communication by logic, I’m here to tell you that you will be surprised at the dots you can connect by falling back into your dream state.
3 C’s That Combat Quiet-Quitting
Contribution, Community, and Challenge Work can drip with meaning. For example: when I teach, there are those moments when I break down a concept, and I see an “Aha!” light flash over my student’s head. Another example: in a casual work conversation with a colleague, I watch as they hear their own voice explaining something …
5 Ways to Handle Criticism like a Pro
Feedback from clients is part of the writing process. When the feedback feels overwhelmingly critical, how do you respond in a professional way? Give up? Yell? Or say thanks and learn from it?
Good Fiction Jumpstarted Medtronic
Creating a discipline and culture around storytelling might jumpstart a few more creative folks who will lead us forward.
What Bowie & Queen’s Frenzied Night of Music-Making Teaches about Collaboration
"Under Pressure" shows the necessity of working together Most of us agree that collaboration, when it goes right, can be a positive and useful tool. Successful collaborations can get us further than we can go alone and provide rich fodder for high-quality written content. However, is collaboration necessary? Working together can be hard; do we …
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Words Build Stuff Between Us
Words destroy stuff we’ve built We all know this, don’t we? It’s perfectly obvious. If words were money (words are definitely not money), we would be aware of our spending to inform or persuade or entertain. And just like people who make a hobby of “going shopping,” spending our word budget every day would be …
3 (Science-Backed) Tips to Boost Your Creative Problem-Solving Skills
Ever felt stuck on a project or problem? Perhaps your normal efforts at finding a solution are getting you nowhere, and you start to feel a sense of hopelessness and panic as the deadline looms. We’ve all been there—that feeling when your memory fails you, your phone-a-friend is used up, and the ask-the-audience hasn’t worked …
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