Category Archives: Business Writing

Top tips for Business Writing. Learn how to write reports, proposals, emails, and other types of writing used to communicate with different audiences. Business writing is a also known as business communication and professional writing.

Creating a Bespoke Style Guide for Your Business Using AI

In the following article, I’ll outline the process of defining, writing, and sharing your style guide. These steps can be adapted to most large language models (LLMs). Subsequent articles will go into the specific elements and structure of an effective style guide.

How to Export ChatGPT Responses to MS Word – Part 2

In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to export a ChatGPT conversion to MS Word. While this is fine in that it saves you time copy and pasting text, I’d like to show you how to improve this workflow. For example, how to save the last three responses with detailed formatting. I mention this […]

How to Write Abstracts – Part 1

I had planned to call this article ‘The Nine-Step Strategy for Writing Summaries That Intrigue Readers’ but had a second look. It’s a bit long. And as this article is about writing headlines, summaries and abstracts, well… Let’s stick to the plan.

“An abstract highlights the key points you want your reader to remember after they’ve read your document.“

NEW – Product Design Specification Template

This week Laura and the team created a new Product Design Specification template. This is one of our series of templates related to product development, so if you’re interested in this area, please take a look at the product requirements specs and the user story template.

4 Business Writing Tips for Non-Native English Speakers

Non-native English speakers often face significant hurdles when communicating when they move to English speaking countries, such as the US or UK. These challenges can include navigating language nuances, cultural expectations in written communication, and industry-specific jargon.

Updated – Communications Plan Templates for MS Office and Apple iWorks

If you work in an IT company, you know that communicating both internally and externally to customers is always a challenge.
Creating a communications plan especially in IT is difficult as due to the dynamic nature of the industry, multiple stakeholders, and the technical complexity of the products.
If I were to identify some of the main challenges I see, it would include the following:

How to use ChatGPT to Respond to RFPs

I’m increasingly using ChatGPT for different writing related tasks. To be clear, I’m not asking it to write original text for me, rather to help with the support tasks, such as research, analysis, proofing, and validation.

This is the first in a series of articles on how to use ChatGPT – Google Gemini and Claude are just as effective – to refine your response to RFPs.

How to Write User Stories Manually v with Google Gemini

For Product Managers, using AI to write user stories offers several benefits, namely, Efficiency, Consistency, and Scalability.
Whether Google Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude, you can quickly produce multiple user stories, saving time compared to manual writing. If you provide with strict writing guidelines, it will follow a consistent structure and format, ensuring uniformity across all your user stories.