191: Writing Better with Anne Janzer
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Writing coach Anne Janzer provides principles, checklists, and pro-tips for better writing at work.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to overcome the biggest workplace writing problems
2) The 6 questions to ask yourself before you start writing
3) The best ways to get your points across without offending
About Anne
Anne Janzer is an author and writing coach who has worked with over a hundred technology businesses in her career. Anne has written three books on marketing and writing. Her latest book is called The Workplace Writer’s Process: A Guide to Getting the Job Done. It covers the things no one teaches you in writing class: how to set yourself up for success when writing on the job, how to collaborate with others on writing projects, and the secrets to creating effective content.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsor: TextExpander
- Anne’s Book: The Workplace Writer’s Process
- Anne’s Website: AnneJanzer.com
- Book: The Myths of Creativity by David Burkus
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 191 with Anne Janzer. |
| 0:27.0 | Anne shares a wealth of hard-won wisdom for writing well at work and that's |
| 0:32.4 | illiteration and hard to say a bit of a |
| 0:34.4 | tongue twister but she brings it and it's a whole lot of fun so you'll walk away learning |
| 0:38.8 | one how to overcome the biggest workplace writing problems, the six questions to ask yourself |
| 0:45.0 | before you start writing anything. |
| 0:47.0 | And three, the best way is to get your points across |
| 0:50.0 | without offending. |
| 0:51.0 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items referenced |
| 0:55.1 | here, you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep 191. |
| 1:01.2 | And while you're over at awesome at your job |
| 1:02.8 | dot com, I recommend you check out some of our handy resources. |
| 1:05.9 | One I direct you to right now is the 10 days to winning at work |
| 1:08.8 | free email course that contains actionable tidbits, excerpts from my enhanced thinking and collaboration |
| 1:14.9 | training program, which on average slashes 86 minutes of waste per person per week out of the calendar |
| 1:21.2 | so you can get home early earlier do some more cool strategic |
| 1:24.0 | thinking stuff so that is on over there at awesome at your job.com now here is |
| 1:30.2 | Anne's story and Janzer is an author and writing coach who has worked with over 100 technology businesses |
| 1:36.0 | in her career. |
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