How to Get Your Boss's Boss to Understand

Readability formulas determine how easily a specific audience can understand a text. There are more than a dozen readability formulas,...

Deciding what is most important can be difficult. Deciding what is most important as a group is usually difficult and frustrating....

Scatter diagrams, matrices, histograms, pie charts, and box and whiskers diagrams are included in "graphics to use with caution" when...

In today's industrial settings, management is constantly being challenged to demonstrate the cost versus benefit when requesting...

How much should you pay attention to readability scores generated from tools like the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula? As a technical...

Headings are vital in improving accessibility for vision-impaired individuals by providing structure, navigation, and context. Headings...

Most people now flip through reports searching for useful information, stopping to read only if something seems interesting. Blame it on...

The way we communicate information has undergone a significant transformation. Traditional writing has given way to a more concise and...

These are the five key enablers for engineers to be effective communicators. Like a chain, these enablers are only as strong as the...

One of the questions I get when people learn that I’ve written a book on leadership is “How can I get senior leaders to do their job?”...

An Example In the end, the sign said simply ‘John Thompson’ with a picture of a hat. Conciseness Conciseness involves conveying...

A table is a systematic arrangement of data. Graphs are simply a concise method for depicting large amounts of data. The central issue in...

The burden is on the message sender, not the receiver when it comes to effective communication. This is especially true when it comes to...

I was in denial for a few years. Sure, my husband and teenage sons had developed a terrible habit of mumbling. And though I’m a proud...

Effective communication requires treating others the way you wish to be treated. Trusted Advisors Your duty is to provide all of the...

Difficult problems are ones where their solutions are unclear or hidden. Difficult problems are complex, which means having many parts...

Fortune gets it right! In its annual publication of Fortune 500 companies, Fortune correctly used two-dimensional shapes (circles) to...

70% of young professionals (21-39 years old) express frustration when working with experienced professionals. The same can be said on the...

Each month CWF provides guest insights related to a technical topic involving big decisions with high complexity and uncertainty....

It's really important for everyone involved in decision making to understand which level of decision they're dealing with. This includes...