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A trick from my newspaper days: read a sentence backwards
Build checklists
Print and then proof read. Ask a colleague to review it for you
Assuming you’re talking about deliverables: checklists and use the read aloud function in ppt, word, outlook for longer items
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)
Ppt: Focus on making a habit of reading after finishing the sentences.
Excel: Build alternate checks as you go.
Read everything you write OUT LOUD. I realize this sounds ridiculous but it works
Set a delay on outgoing emails
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