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Please Note: This course is only open to employees from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Title: Write Well—Techniques for Effective On-The-Job Writing
Date: August 20, 2010
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Instructor: Debra A. Smith
Location: One Highland Center, 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd., Suite 403, Austin, TX 78752
Price: $225
Early Bird Discount: $199 if you register by July 20, 2010.
Who Should Attend: Anyone who writes letters, memos, reports, proposals, or other business-related documents. Especially helpful for managers and supervisors who need to add more impact to their writing, administrative assistants who write for their managers, and technical professionals who need to make complex material clearer and easier to understand.
Course Description:
Do you dread writing assignments, and do they take forever to complete? Do you stare helplessly at a blank piece of paper or a blinking cursor on a computer screen? Do you struggle with your ideas, so they have some semblance of logic? Do you write to readers you don’t know and find yourself wondering what to say? Do you occasionally hear comments that your writing is too wordy, too vague, too passive, or too boring? If so, this seminar is for you!
When you participate in “Write Well—Techniques for Effective On-the-Job Writing,” you’ll find out just how easy it is to unclog writer’s block and start writing immediately with confidence and know-how. You’ll discover how to express personality and style in your writing, how to tap into your natural creativity, and how to present your messages in ways that will achieve the positive results you want. You’ll pick up techniques for breaking big ideas into smaller, more manageable ones and for writing precisely and accurately to avoid dangerous misunderstandings or mixed messages. You’ll gain confidence in choosing the style, format, and tone that fit the tough writing assignments—proposals and reports to upper management, bad news letters, and status reports. The end result will be worth it—you’ll walk away knowing how to write with more speed, clarity, and impact than ever before.
What you will learn:
In this one-day information-packed program, you’ll learn how to:
Break through the “blank page panic”
Hook your reader right from the opening sentence
Use clustering to create and record ideas faster and more easily
Discover and develop your natural voice to let your personality shine through
Organize your thoughts before writing a single word
Make your documents more appealing and “reader friendly”
Nix the business writing mistakes that make you look unprofessional and cost you credibility
Purge wordiness, jargon, and clichés that can muddle your messages
Eliminate irritating redundancies and “unsmother” your verbs to streamline your writing
Build goodwill and cooperation by using a courteous tone
Write e-mail messages that draw attention and get action
Deliver bad news in the most painless and inoffensive way possible
Write letters, memos, reports, and proposals that are read, remembered, and acted on
Apply time-tested proofreading methods for producing mistake-free documents
Instructor Bio: Debra A. Smith
Debra Smith's program specialties include communications, time management, stress management, conflict management, teamwork, and customer relations. Drawing on a store of practical business knowledge, anecdotes, and examples gleaned from her years of personal experience, Debra inspires, encourages, and coaches more than 20,000 people a year through her seminars and workshops. She has helped hundreds of organizations increase productivity and develop a more committed, cohesive workforce.
Debra holds a M.B.A. degree in management from Golden Gate University. She is the author of three books—How to Create High-Impact Letters, Memos, and E-Mail, How to Create High-Impact Reports and Proposals, and Powerful Proofreading Skills—as well as the audio and videotape programs Professional Telephone Skills, Powerful Presentation Skills, and Proofreading and Editing Skills. Several of her programs have been syndicated internationally.
CPE: 8 hours
TX Board of Public Accountancy Sponsor Number: 009317
Cancellation Information: Cancellation Date: July 30, 2010
To cancel your registration from this course, please call or email the course
contact listed below. If a cancellation is received after the cancellation
date, the registrant will be charged $75 for course materials.
If you are making travel plans to come to the training, please make "refundable" air and hotel reservations or wait until 14 days before the class to actually book your reservations. Courses are occasionally canceled or rescheduled due to low enrollment. We determine whether a course has enough participants approximately 16 days prior to the course date. If we cancel or reschedule, we will email the participant no later than 14 days before the original class date. Solutions Training will not pay for cancellation/change fees associated with travel and hotel arrangement changes.
Class participants will
be billed after the class. Payment should be made to SOLUTIONS TRAINING GROUP,
Federal Tax ID: 20-2732184 and mailed to 2701 Maria Anna Rd, Austin, TX 78703.
If you have any questions, please contact Shannon Bieberdorf at (512) 914-5557
shannon@solutionstraininggroup.com. For
additional information about this class, please contact Laurie Garrant at laurie@solutionstraininggroup.com,
(512) 914-5567.
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