Workshops
 
Business Writing for Results
 

How to write clear, persuasive and effective emails, reports, memos, letters, c.v.'s, contracts, and procedures in any language - and get the results you want now!

Target Group:

  • Any executive, manager or employee of any nationality who wishes to strengthen his/her written communication in English or any other language. Designed for executives with English as a second language.

Duration:

  • A 3-5 Day program with 6 to six and one-half contact hours per day

Method:

  • Highly participative and practical setting utilizing case studies, work groups and exercises.

Every successful career in business, without exception, depends on good communication.

Good communication very often requires good writing. If you are in international business, this probably means good writing in English. However, the rules for good written communication are applicable to all languages.

Few skills contribute more to success, are more impressive, and can save as much money as those of direct, concise writing.

Most executives hate to read lengthy, unclear and unorganized reports, letters, business plans and memos. And yet, the larger your organization, the more you have to read, write, understand and be understood.

What can you learn?

This seminar will help you obtain a better professional, personal style to express yourself.

  • Explain in writing with the same power and precision that you explain in person.
  • Stimulate reader interest
  • Write for clarity, understanding and results
  • Save time
  • Write to motivate your reader to action
  • Establish your ideas as a presence in much wider spheres within your company, your industry, or the general public.
  • Promote the success of your product, service, your company, and your career.
  • Obtain positive results and decisions

Objectives:

  • To help the participants of the seminar obtain better and faster results from their written communications to management, colleagues, clients, prospects, employees or the public.

Why this course is so effective:

  • Action oriented. From the first hour until the last, every participant is involved in writing and editing assignments, solving correspondence and communication problems and taking an active role in demonstrations and discussion.
  • Practical and job related. You will use the ideas and techniques you learn during this course the very next day at the office.
  • You will finish the course knowing that you are equipped with writing techniques that you can apply confidently to your own situation.

What this seminar includes:

1. Overcoming "writer's block"

2. Mapping your ideas: how to organize easily and clearly

3. Understanding what executives like (and need) and dislike in written communication.

4. Having a winning structure for every business document: email, fax, short memo, long memo, letter, report, business proposal, and curricula vitae.

5. Capturing your reader's interest - to read on:

  • Focusing on your reader
  • Setting the right tone
  • Presenting your ideas logically - from your reader's point of view
  • Building your point

6. Holding your reader's attention - motivation:

  • Making your points with impact
  • Writing clearly, so that your directions can be easily followed.
  • Smoothing the flow of thought
  • Transitions
  • Persuasion
  • Summaries

7. Minimizing your reader's work - composition and mechanics:

  • Be concise: remove unnecessary words and worthless phrases
  • Be dynamic: stress the power of verbs, use the active voice
  • Be natural: find precise, vivid words; avoid heavy or long expressions, be personal when appropriate

8. Using format to increase impact:

  • Visual appeal: spacing, punctuation, white space
  • Highlighting

9. Persuasion and how to get your messages read


Get started - you will write better and read better


 
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