The no jargon blog
A picture is worth a thousand words
I know I’m basically a wordsmith. I am quite capable of getting into a fight over the placement of a comma versus a semi colon and have been known to channel Stannis Baratheon from Game of Thrones by murmuring “Fewer!” at the television news when someone says, “The...
Old dogs and new tricks
One of the attitudes I find myself coming up against as an older worker is the idea that only Gen Z “gets” technology. Several times I’ve been asked if I know what Microsoft Office is, or have I ever seen how to use Adobe Premiere Pro to make a video? It makes me feel...
Speak it like you mean it
How often have you sat down to hear someone give a speech at a conference or business meeting with a sense of dread in the pit of your stomach? It’s going to be boring, right? So many of these things are. You’re going to have to pretend to be awake and interested and...
So a reporter wants to interview you and you’d rather go swimming in a vat of razor blades
Getting a phone call or email from a journalist wanting to ask you some questions is not exactly high on anyone’s list of Fun Ways to Start the Day. In these days of social media driven virtual mobs looking for their next victim, it’s understandable that most people...
Plain English – or why we should eschew obfuscatory verbiage.
Are you “leveraging your synergies” and “achieving buy-in from key stakeholders”? Do you “engage best-practice methodologies” in order to “build consensus around our vision statement”? I know many people are, I can see it in annual reports, speeches, internal...