TrainersDirect Seminars
TrainersDirect presents

Writing for the Workplace On-Site Training

In this one-day seminar, they’ll learn proven strategies to organize their thoughts in record time, and communicate with elegant simplicity to make the point and get the results they want.

Course Description/Agenda

Length: 1 day
Number of Participants: Up to 20
Materials: Notebooks and handouts provided

Are people in your organization still writing “Pursuant to our conversation, enclosed please find the data which you requested.” If they are, they’re dinosaurs! Consider updating your employees’ writing style for the 21^st Century. In this one-day seminar, they’ll learn proven strategies to organize their thoughts in record time, and communicate with elegant simplicity to make the point and get the results they want.

This workshop is a timely investment in lean writing and eye-friendly formatting for today’s time-pressed readers—and writers.

Introduction:

Discussion on the importance of clear writing skills in today’s workplace and the individual writing needs of participants
Group analysis of overhead samples of poorly written/formatted business documents.

Program:

KISS: Seven ways to keep it simple
Seven pitfalls to avoid
Planning & organizing made easy
Opening & closings that get to the point
The importance of tone
Memos & Letters that work: confirmation, request, inquiry, policy, persuasion, complaint, refusal, sales & marketing, goodwill
Formatting: Make your message leap off the page!
Proofreading tips from Omar Khayyam
Reports & proposals (optional)
Program has writing exercises