Effective Business Writing - Onsite

"The ability to organize and express ideas verbally and in writing is the single most important skill for all employees...business letters, writing business reports or business memo writing, are essential tools of the employee."
                 - Peter Drucker

Effective Business Writing is a comprehensive business writing workshop for groups, delivered onsite at your location, which hones the bedrock business writing skills required of every business person. Content covers most frequent business documents: memos, business letters, business reports and email. Methods to write efficiently and effectively as well as lessons on style and tone are included.

  • The first portion of the course addresses process: how to write efficiently, target a reader and elicit a positive business response from all documents.

  • The second portion of the course covers documents relevant to your organization, such as email, status reports, executive summaries, sales letters. We use client examples and scenarios in the training, to make the training most engaging and applicable.

  • The third portion of the course addresses language and style: brevity, clarity, grammar, and language flow.
Onsite course are highly interactive, and include writing review.

Effective Business Writing Course Goals

  • Reduce reader time by 50% and writer time by 25% by employing proper organizing strategies.
  • Know the steps for planning and organizing thoughts and ideas.
  • Recognize unnecessary and confusing words and phrases and eliminate them
  • Get started writing more quickly and finish faster.
  • Write more clearly with reader understanding and action as the goal.
  • Be able to define the exact purpose for each piece of writing.
  • Possess the skills necessary to project a competent and friendly image in letters, memos, e-mail and reports.

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Fees

Group volume pricing and customization is available. Please contact us to discuss delivering this course at your location.

Individual online enrollment is available for $325.

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