Your Colleagues Don’t Read Anything You Write. Here Are 8 Ways to Change That.

For over a decade, I taught college students how to communicate in professional settings. Every class began with a single, all-consuming thesis: “Nobody will ever want to read anything you write at work. Period.”

That’s a harsh and, perhaps, disheartening warning. Particularly for bright-eyed, soon-to-be employees about to make their dent in the universe.

The real pain of writing at work only to have our words disappear into the ether — the wasteland of no response — is more than feeling small and disrespected; it’s the professional consequences that compound them.

Beneath these brutal realities, getting busy co-workers and bosses to take action means changing eight things about the way we communicate…

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