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Build confidence fast with a quick brush up. Avoid embarrassing grammatical and usage errors. Improve reader comprehension. Write confidently, correctly, and comfortably. Grammar. Spelling. Punctuation. Usage. Go beyond spellchecker to become a knowledgeable resource.
You will get the tools to:
- Avoid embarrassing grammatical and usage errors
- Improve reader comprehension
- Write clearly, correctly, confidently
- Give your writing professional polish
- Feel comfortable with your use of the English language
- Enhance your credibility; prove your professionalism
- Become a knowledgeable resource
- Go beyond spellchecker
- Recognize the 18 most common grammatical mistakes you may not know you're making - and eliminate them from your writing
Business writing basics - grammar
Grammar and Proofreading for Professional Communication
Here’s where you put it all together to give your business writing a competitive edge. You’ll apply what you have learned in the Effective Written Communication workshop and take your basic business writing skills to the next level. Picking up where the first workshop left off, we’ll move on to advanced mechanics of writing; common email concerns and how to work with them; and finally link parts one and two to provide two opportunities for applying all you have learned to draft your own material in class. You will draft a persuasive proposal step-by-step, and learn techniques for saying "no" or giving bad news. You will work with additional techniques to make your reader want to read what you have written - and want to do what you ask.
You will get the tools to:
- Apply what you have learned to your own materials
- Avoid offending or irritating your reader
- Identify and "work around" the most common grammatical and usage errors
- Gain new confidence in the correctness of your writing
- Write compelling e-mails that get read, get results, and avoid disaster!
- Recognize - and fix - common on-your-job e-mail problems
- Use stronger, results-producing words and phrases
- Identify jargon in your writing, and decide whether to use it - or not
- Get more tools for professional writing
- Say "no" or give bad news
- Make your proposals more persuasive, more effective, step-by-step
Write less, say more - and get results!
Effective Written Communication
Write less, say more – and get results! – the next step
Advanced Effective Written Communication
Write faster, clearer, easier - more confidently!
You will get the tools to:
Gain focus
- Develop a results-oriented strategy
- Start writing quickly, easily, confidently
- Make your point clearly, accurately, concisely - fast!
- Use a simple formula to help the reader "get it" at a glance
- Select, edit, and organize your material quickly and easily
- Write clearly, concisely, and specifically to say exactly what you mean
- Write less and say more
- Spend less time writing
- Avoid embarrassing usage and grammatical errors
- Go beyond spellchecker; become a valuable resource
- Enhance your credibility; prove your professionalism
- Use two powerful techniques that will make a dramatic difference in your writing - in 30 seconds or less
- Get results!