How personal coaching
in professional writing works
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Real coaching stories from the blog
Too busy to learn? Try BCC!
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Then the busy executive came up with a solution. “I must improve my writing. I will mark you a Bcc of every important communication that I initiate or approve. You reply with your comments as usual.” He no longer needs a coach. But he insists on continuing the Bcc model of learning. “I get a different view point. That is important. Sometimes my writing does not keep up with my thinking. Your review comments bring me back on track.”
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Thou shall not correct
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The question came out of the blue. “How do we know that the changes you suggest are the best possible changes?” The question was dipped in teen scorn. I could sense the teacher, my facilitator for that workshop, bristling at the questioner’s temerity. I motioned her to remain seated. After all, I was the coach, the expert who had travelled all the way to help the students and teachers of the school write better English. Surely, I could handle this?
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Coach on the couch
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He was staying the night. I dutifully started my counselling as soon as we were in the car on the way back from the airport. “So, how is your writing?” “Oh, fine uncle! Hold on for a sec! My mother has been talking to you, right?” He laughed out loud. “Did she tell you that I should take up writing or I should not? Don’t answer that. I will tell you. She doesn’t want me to become a journalist like her. And she is afraid I would. Right?”
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