General Writing Best Practices

What voice should you be writing in: 

Bold, insightful, helpful, and affirmative

Examples: 

  • “Give me liberty or give me . . . more project management headaches? Say no more. Here’s how you can achieve (and keep) project management freedom for yourself.”
  • “What do people say about you when you’re too much into your projects?

Do they think it’s a nightmare working with you on projects?

Well, $hit.

As a founder or a project manager, you may also want to achieve enough freedom for innovation, creativity, and personal judgment by stepping aside from the projects.”

  1. “Project turn into Frankenstein’s monster? Keep your project delivery on track — navigate the workflow waters so you never ask again, “What the heck happened?!” 

What tenses should you be writing in: Present

Example:

  • “Eh . . . I don’t like to be the bearer of bad news. 

But your failure to empower people to take up tasks means you’re failing at the project management process.

You must aim to empower people to take on their particular tasks and projects and string along with them.”

What POV should you be writing in: First and second

Examples:

  • “Set aside time in the calendar to review the workflow as it’s happening and QA the deliverables.

So yeah, I know you personally may not be queuing the deliverables. But make sure that they are getting queued.

When processes are reviewed well, whether internally by the team or externally by the client, you ensure they don’t clog up production.”

  • “Track your workflow against your timetables, milestones, invoices, and anything that holds significance to your business.

And as you do it, you might as well have to babysit the project. 

That’s particularly true if there are dependencies in a project.

You have to make sure that people are doing what they said they’ll be doing.”