Effective Business Writing Workshop

The typical business executive or professional spends approximately 20 percent of their time writing. Yet, writing is a skill few seek to improve once they enter the business world. The Effective Business Writing seminar is designed with individual contributors, staff assistants, team leaders, supervisors, managers and executives in mind. Anyone who wishes to create more professional, effective written communications will benefit greatly from this course, as will those who desire to boost productivity and improve the impact of their writing on clients and coworkers.

This highly interactive one-day workshop is designed to help the business communicator improve writing skills such as preparation, organization, understanding the needs of the reader, avoiding common grammar and spelling mistakes, and basic editing. Throughout the day, participants will have the opportunity to work on documents they have developed or will need to develop for real world business purposes.

On-Site Training: can be tailored to the needs of client organization and delivered on-site at time and location of client choice.

Objectives:
 

Participants will learn to:

  • Understand the three levels of communication

  • Apply the five-step PRIDE method to create effective written communications

  • Learn how to write a clear purpose statement

  • Determine means to communicate effectively

  • Learn about behavioral styles and how they affect communication

  • Review important skills relating to grammar and composition

  • Practice new skills in reports, memos, e-mail, and letters

  • Choose the resources needed to deliver an effective message

  • Learn strategies for effective editing

  • Critique their own writing style


For more information and pricing, please complete this form and we will email you a confidential Annotated Outline that will provide you with an hour by hour description of this training seminar.
 

Class Size: 8-20 (Please note that we can increase the class size for private seminars)
Length: 1 day
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Management Workshops:

Length (days)

Dealing With Difficult People 1
Effective Assertiveness Practices (One Day) 1
Effective Leadership Skills 1
Exceptional Coaching Skills 1
Exceptional Management Skills 2
Exceptional Team Building Skills 1
Manager Time Management 1
Sexual Harassment Awareness 1/2
Exceptional Listening and Communication Skills 1/2
Exceptional Conflict Management Skills 1/4
Productive Meeting Skills 1/2
Finance for the Non-Financial Manager 1
Effective Business Writing 1

 

Public Exceptional Management Skills Workshops:

Location

Date

Los Angeles, California Aug. 12th-13th
Houston, Texas Aug. 16th-17th
Chicago, Illinois Sept. 1st
Phoenix, Arizona Sept 17th
Boston, Massachusetts Sept 29th
Denver, Colorado Sept 30th
San Francisco, California Oct.4th-5th
NYC, New York Oct. 21st
Seattle, Washington Oct. 27th
Houston, Texas Oct. 28th-29th
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