My Writing Style
I haven’t written about my dyslexia/ADD in quite a while. As anyone who has regularly read this blog knows I tend to write about events that are current and related to my life now (this instant). Well today it’s time to writ about some difficulty I have with writing.
Obviously if you take the time to read this blog you can see that I am very capable of writing and sometime even capable of eloquency as demonstrated in the blog that won me Father of the Year. However this type of writing is free form, narrative, passionate, and streem of consiounious. It works well for this blog and I enjoy it tremoundously. I hope and believe that it benefits the reader.
Unfortunatly this form of writing does not bode well for business. Over the years I’ve managed to squeak by because of ability to verably communicate, think dynamically, negotiate, come up with strategic ideas and help the team come up with solutions, but my written work has always suffered from the way I think. My writing has always reflected my thought process. I was always able to do well when I was simply writing requirements because they are simple sentence structures and I always got group reviews, but as I’ve moved up in organizations and had to build more presentations and comprehensive documents I’ve had a harder time with my written communication. I can build great grand strategic thoughts but when it comes to putting them in a presentation I’ve always had to find someone to help me re-organize and pollish it. I truly believe that this has held me back from becoming a truly young execuative but I don’t want it to hold me back from becoming an execuative permanitaly. As such I’m working with some people who do excelent work to understand the strategies they use to organize and build their best work.
The first step is outlining. This is interesting. Of course we are all taught that we should always outline thoughts, but I’ve always been of the opinion that an outline should take 15 – 30 minutes. As of today I now understand that you can take days to build your outlines and the thought process allows you to organize how you want your ideas organized in the final written presentation.
I have no idea if this strategy will work for me but the people who are the best experts in the world say if you want to do something like someone else does it then you have to model how they do it. So here it goes. I’ll keep you informed. If it works for me hopefully I’ll have documented all the steps and you can model the same behaviors.
