Cursive writing in the workplace
Feb 21, 2017 20:45:18 GMT -5
Post by prmommy on Feb 21, 2017 20:45:18 GMT -5
So I manage a very young millennial (22) and she has about every stereotypical millennial quality I can name but I don't mean that in a bad way she appears to care about her work and I think she wants to do well. She just doesn't take constructive criticism well ( always blames others etc.. when things are done wrong nothing is ever her doing) I have coached her on this because she is a writer and there will never be a time when her work is not edited part of the job. She has gotten better with having her work edited but lately I have seen her attention to detail go out the door. I have walked her through edits four times for the same newsletter and every time I review again 50 percent of the edits are not made. She does not take notes when we meet but she takes my hand written notes and I keep copies. It occurred to me today that maybe she can't read cursive. I noticed that the edits that went unmade were hand written by me. I am talking rewritten sentences. I have said to her on occasion that if my handwriting is hard to read just ask and she never does. I really can't beat around the bush on this as most of the edits she will receive from others in our company will be hand written. A lot of what we have reviewed is in PDF form and not word plus high-level managers often don't have time to edit from their computer and would rather read and write on paper. I want to ask her if she can read cursive but I don't want to offend her, but on the other hand if she can't I need to know and she needs to be able to come to me and have me read anything that is sent to her that she can't read. Any advice on how to approach this? I thought about asking in conversation if she learned it in school since bringing it back into the schools has been in the news lately. Talking about school is not uncommon where I work. Sorry this is long TIA.