Skip to main content
PProfileMatch
← Path

Communication Skills · Clear Workplace Writing: Emails, Slack Messages and Status Updates

0 XP
  1. 1 current stop: learning
  2. 2 upcoming
  3. 3 upcoming
  4. 4 upcoming
  5. 5 upcoming

Finish after stop 5

Stop 1 of 5 · Starting line, helmet on

Trick to keep in mind+3 XP

BLUF: bottom line up front. Ask first, background after.

Most messages are read quickly on a phone between other tasks. If the request is in paragraph four, it may never be seen. Put the conclusion or the thing you need, plus a date, in the opening line. The background follows for anyone who wants it.

Read it once, then a question tests whether the trick stuck.