How do I learn attention to detail? It does not come naturally to me, and while I’ve been able to work on it, I still find myself making too many silly typos, forgetting to finish a sentence, etc.

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A trick from my newspaper days: read a sentence backwards

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Build checklists

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Print and then proof read. Ask a colleague to review it for you

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Assuming you’re talking about deliverables: checklists and use the read aloud function in ppt, word, outlook for longer items

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Checklists helped me a lot get the habit going. Also a good advice I recently received was to make the slide client ready at once, not in a 100 iterations. As I am naturally impatient, I used to focus a lot on jut getting the content and then postponing the footnotes, spell check, title alignments etc for a “later review”, when I lied to myself that I would go through the whole deck and do everything at once. In reality it just made me postpone even more. So now I try to finish one slide with everything and then move on (of course does not apply to ghost decks and so on)

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Ppt: Focus on making a habit of reading after finishing the sentences.

Excel: Build alternate checks as you go.

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Read everything you write OUT LOUD. I realize this sounds ridiculous but it works

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Set a delay on outgoing emails

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Install grammarly

For one or two sentence emails, I just send. Anything lengthier, I read emails twice to correct grammar.

Find someone else who’s good at it, and get them to pay attention to detail for you. Then, focus on your strengths

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