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Founder of Quality Assurance Communication, Dossenheim, Germany

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Agile Communication Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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The Future Depends on What You Do Today Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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Words Are Like Seeds Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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5 Things They Don’t Teach You in Communication Skills Training

5 Things They Don’t Teach You in Communication Skills Training

More and more, I’ve started incorporating concepts, strategies and techniques into my communication skills training that I learned during the first three years of starting my own business, Quality Assurance Communication.

My typical clients are international professionals working in Europe. Very often, the articles I write are written to ‘speak’ to internal audit professionals who travel the…

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Your Beliefs Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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Think Before You Ink Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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How to Become a Report Writing Fashionista

How to Become a Report Writing Fashionista

What does style have to do with report writing? Everything.

One of the outcomes of my International Audit Report Writing workshop is a style guide for audit report writing. Don’t write audit reports? No problem. If your team issues reports regularly, you can still benefit from the concept.

What is a report writing style guide?

It’s an internal document that provides guidance to your team on tone,…

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If you are persistent Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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Living Proof That Excellent Communication Means More Results

Living Proof That Excellent Communication Means More Results

It’s hard to believe 2016 is almost over. What a year it’s been!

I can honestly say I’m looking forward to a few days off over the December holidays to rest and recuperate from the whirlwind of 2016. Except that over the holidays, I know I’ll be working on the workshops already lined up for January and February…

This year has been wildly successful for me, and since I’m in the business of…

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Those who change the world Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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From business conversation to win-win outcome Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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Write Executive Summaries Like a 3-Michelin-star Chef

Write Executive Summaries Like a 3-Michelin-star Chef

I recently spent four days in Brussels working with 15 international auditors from the banking industry on how to write effective, action-oriented audit reports. One of topics of this integrated workshop was Executive Summaries. This topic is often a pain point in writing workshops: What to include? How much to include? In what order? Can I just do a quick copy/paste from the detailed body of the…

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If anything terrifies me Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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Tailor your communication Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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Be confident, be clear, be concise… Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication

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From Push to Pull: How to Be More Persuasive in Your Writing

From Push to Pull: How to Be More Persuasive in Your Writing

If you are like most international professionals I know, you literally spend weeks each year writing business correspondence: reports, letters, slide presentations that are in fact documentation… and let’s not forget emails!

When you start writing these business documents, you usually have a goal in mind. Then sometimes you get lost in the detail, you write too directly, or your key messages get…

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If you have an important point to make… Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication