Clear Business and Email Writing
Conservative estimates show that we spend 40 percent of our day at work writing.
Imagine—through training—employees cutting their writing time in half and producing organized, clear, and concise documents and emails. What could your company accomplish with the increased productive time and improved communication?
Delivered to over 100 organizations and thousands of participants, this lively, hands-on workshop provides a step-by-step process for business writing. Participants will learn by doing, the only legitimate way to improve writing skills! The training involves writing and revising exercises, group activities, and discussion.
ObjectivesWorkshop includes:
Key Topics
- Mastering the three principles of writing
- Targeting writing based on audience traits and perspective
- Clustering to capture and organize information
- Achieving the right level of detail
- Learning and practicing a conclusion-first report format
- Implementing six techniques to persuade the audience
- Freewriting to create a draft quickly
- Enabling your audience to scan your writing
- Incorporating active voice and parallel structure
- Trimming the fat from wordy writing
- Proofreading for perfection
- Mastering the Top 10 tips for respectful, action-oriented email
- Bridging the divide with international writing techniques
Can't take the in-person training? Learn about our Writing Webinar.
Reviews
I really found value in the before and after exercises, you could see immediate results. TIBCO Software, Support Engr.
This is a great class for all levels. Very Dynamic and engaging! Brocade, Program Mgr.
There was a high level of participation; instructor has a very engaging style which increased the degree of learning. This was fun. Sybase, Sr. Manager
Instructors
BARRY MOHN has 15 years of experience in management, business consulting, and training. His dynamic and practical training programs focus on these topics:
- - Business, technical, and email writing
- - Presentation skills
- - Meeting facilitation
- - Career development
Barry is a seasoned trainer with international experience. As a business consultant for Principa, a global consulting firm based in Brisbane, Australia, he developed and presented training programs for over 60 clients in the accounting industry. The programs included: Strategic Planning, Customer-Service Strategy, Monitoring Key Performance Indicators, Strategic Marketing, and Analysis of Business Financial Statements. Barry also designed and delivered writing-skills training for software and hardware engineers in China, Taiwan, and Korea; and taught English language skills in Akita and Hiroshima, Japan.
In Barry's programs, he (1) focuses on understanding the training needs of participants and (2) builds on concepts and develops customized tools to meet those needs. He maintains an easy rapport with participants to create an atmosphere of working together to overcome performance challenges. His approach ensures that the training material applies to each participant's day-to-day work.
JANET BAILEY is a highly rated speaker, coach and award-winning writer on productivity and communication. She has developed creative methods to help leaders focus on the right priorities and has trained hundreds of engineers, sales professionals and managers to communicate clearly and to handle tough, demanding workloads. Her presentations throughout the U.S. and U.K. offer practical, powerful techniques that participants use right away to save time and stay on message.
Her columns and articles on time management, life balance, psychology and career development have appeared in leading publications including Chief Executive, Bottom Line Personal, Robb Report, Health and Reader's Digest. Her entertaining history of San Francisco, The Great San Francisco Trivia & Fact Book, was an Amazon bestseller. As a corporate communications consultant, she has helped clients from a wide variety of industries reach their audiences effectively.
Janet has a degree in journalism and psychology from Stanford University, was an adjunct faculty member at New York University, and has served in leadership roles for the National Speakers Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors
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