I agree wholeheartedly with you - good communication is vital in SFI but please remember that the written word is one of the several ways of communication, although it is the most commonly means of communicating.
If you are not good at writing, you have the options of learning to be a better writer (and this seems to be what you are looking for) or develop other forms of communicating such as by phone, Skype and other similar software applications, video (U Tube etc)
How to write well is often a challenge for a lot of people because it is a skill that is acquired over time, requiring a lot of practice, trials and errors and refinements. We need to be patient with this and take 'baby' steps as we develop our skills.
I would recommend that we start off with short simple statements. One 'thought' or idea per sentence. Do not have long and complicated sentences. Use everyday words. Use only words and phrases that are not slang or peculiar to our part of the world or dialect. Position our sentences in logical order.
If we are communicating with someone who is of another language, we should write in their language if we can. If we cannot, we should use translators that are readily available on the internet. I would suggest that we have our message translated into that other persons language and then have the translated text translated back into our language. Keep doing this until we are happy with the final content and then send that message away.
While we are developing our writing skills, there are other strategies that we can adopt in the meantime.
We can use text that have already been written by others. Take note of what our sponsors and uplines write, what people write when answering ASK SC questions, what is written in the Forum, sample welcome and newsletters texts in SFI. We can use all these to develop and teach our team members.
The easiest thing to do is to simply refer our people to the links with
short introductions from us. Doing it this way saves us a lot of time and work. We also acknowledge the text author at the same time.
We can also copy and paste onto a new document if we want to but with should always acknowledge the source and author of the texts.
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I agree wholeheartedly with you - good communication is vital in SFI but please remember that the written word is one of the several ways of communication, although it is the most commonly means of communicating.
If you are not good at writing, you have the options of learning to be a better writer (and this seems to be what you are looking for) or develop other forms of communicating such as by phone, Skype and other similar software applications, video (U Tube etc)
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