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Storytelling in business

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Emphasis is the UK’s leading communication training provider, offering specialist learning programmes and consultancy services to private and public sector organisations all over the world.

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Emphasis has been enabling organisations and individuals to make their communication work for 25 years. Find out more about our story and our work below.

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Catie Holdridge

Catie joined Emphasis with an English literature and creative writing degree and a keen interest in what makes language work. Having researched, written, commissioned and edited dozens of articles for the Emphasis blog, she now knows more about the intricacies of effective professional writing than she ever thought possible.

She produced and co-wrote our online training programme,The Complete Business Writer and these days oversees all the Emphasis marketing efforts. And she keeps office repartee at a suitably literary level.

Smooth operations

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On the origin of speaking

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I tweet, therefore I am

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A pollack by any other name

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Keeping it (un)real

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Sir Clement Freud, 24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009

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Is it a feathered sky-dwelling nest-builder? Is it an aerodynamic pan-destinational person carrier? No, it’s Sloganizer!

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Guide the way with subheading signposts

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The joy of specifics

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How to use subheads

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