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How To Give Advice That Matters
Some simple rules to follow when giving advice to people to actually help them grow.
I woke up today to a notification that one of my clients made some suggestions to an article I sent them.
I opened the document to see several scratches and removed sections.
I did approve them all and read through the article. Though through my reading, it was as if I was reading my own work, merely in their words.
When I checked my messages from my client, they told me a few things. One, they cancelled the contract and two, they couldn’t accept this article. Their reason for that was that the article had no basic logic and is filled with grammatical and style mistakes.
I’m not here to rant and rave about me losing a client. Nor do I really mind it. But as this client gave me this feedback, all I felt was confused.
I never knew that “style mistakes” was a thing. It sounds demoralizing. Like the very essence of how I write is wrong.
The “grammatical errors” presented the article to how my client would write the article rather than myself.
And the “basic logic” advice was vague at best. I’m aware that it takes me a while to get to my point in these posts, but I wouldn’t say…
