Ever made a presentation or sent out a report only to realise your date is one year late? Or that some typos have somehow escaped your editing. Or worse you had inadvertently included a chart meant for another presentation. These are just some of the awkward things that could happen which would make you look so incompetent that you stand there cursing yourself as to why you didn’t notice them. Mistakes connotes carelessness in any kind of work, and in the workplace, the stakes are even higher.

How then do you reduce your chances of being in such situations?

It is important to understand that word processing applications offers a lot of flexibility over paper but this is also a drawback in some ways as it creates this notion that reports prepared with this medium are error proof since of course many of us know how to do a spell check. However some errors can never be detected by spell check.

In my opinion, printing your reports or presentation on paper and reviewing them helps identify those errors that your favourite word processor or spreadsheets’ spell check may not identify. After printing your report, get a pen and read through it making notes and comments where necessary. This tweak could you save you the embarrassment of messing up your report with errors.

So next time you are have a presentation or a report to send print it because you’re smart!

http://lightednation.com/2015/07/print-it-because-youre-smart/