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Scrubbing up on English skills

Carly

Hi 

I currently work in HR and have done for about 8 months now, two months ago I started my CIPD level 3, all is going well (passed the first unit today!) 

I just had a 121 with my line manager, who has told me my communication could be a show stopper in my career and is what could stop me to making it as an HR manager, which has left me rather disheartened. To me, my grammar and written English has been a little over average, clearly to my employer it is not. He would like me to explore how I 'write' better and produce documents. 

Does anyone have any advice or know of a good book I can read to better my skills? 

Many thanks 

Carly 

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  • Carly, is you manger talking about style, presentation or something else? Your post seems well constructed and coherent so could it be you just need to adapt to the in-house style of writing.

    There is a little bit of my brain which gets confused when I write things down, my written language skills are, at best, quite poor. Writing is a frustrating process for me, which takes me much longer than normal to string together words which make sense. However, I have spent over 25 years in HR, most of it contracting on short term contracts, which is probably a long winded way of saying written skills are important but there is much more to HR than report writing
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  • Carly, is you manger talking about style, presentation or something else? Your post seems well constructed and coherent so could it be you just need to adapt to the in-house style of writing.

    There is a little bit of my brain which gets confused when I write things down, my written language skills are, at best, quite poor. Writing is a frustrating process for me, which takes me much longer than normal to string together words which make sense. However, I have spent over 25 years in HR, most of it contracting on short term contracts, which is probably a long winded way of saying written skills are important but there is much more to HR than report writing
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  • in reply to Steven
    Hi Steven. Thank you for your answer! He hasn't given me any specifications, I would say it would fall into the style category and perhaps I do need to adapt to the in-house style of writing. With every email, document or report I write I really reflect what I have written and change to make it grammtically perfect (as it can be) and try to expand my vocabulary. All I can do is continue to try and expand my knowledge. I agree with your last comment, thank you!