Writing for the Workplace
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 21st 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
