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Susan Kline Business Communications promotes excellence in the workplace by providing a variety of workshops to improve business writing and presentation skills. If your employees need to write clearer documents, make business presentations, or upgrade other communication skills, then one or more of the following classes and consulting services may be exactly what you need.

Bonus benefits for all participants:
 

bullet  Class manual to take away as a valuable ongoing resource
 
bullet   Free access to Susan Kline’s Grammar Hot Line
 
bullet   Available for purchase at $5.00 each: Writer’s Survival Guide  and Presenter’s Survival Guide, laminated guides packed with helpful tips

Fees are reasonable, and the benefits to the organization are swift and substantial. You will find that business documents are clearer, more professional, and more quickly produced. You’ll also note increased employee confidence in written and oral communications.
 

bullet Effective Business Writing:
An amazingly compact presentation of all one needs to know about business writing. Learn and incorporate the best approaches to style, tone, organization, sentence clarity and correct English usage.
 
bullet Advanced Business Writing:
Intended for those who write substantial documents, this class reinforces skills of organization and persuasion. Participants learn to put the reader front and center to ensure comprehension and make even the most complicated topics easy to understand. Advance submission of writing samples is required.
 
bullet Speaking of Business:
Master the skills necessary to be successful when making a business presentation, whether formal or informal. Analyze your purpose, audience, content and format. Learn how to make strategic adjustments to enhance the speaking opportunity. Get tips for reducing anxiety. Then, best of all, practice your skills and receive feedback  in a friendly setting.
 
bullet Grammar Basics for Business:
Learn how grammar, punctuation and accurate word choice can work together to make business documents clear, correct and unambiguous. Apply easy-to-understand principles to all work-related messages. Correct the 20 most glaring errors in English usage made throughout the business world.
 
bullet E-Mail Basics for Business:
Discover the e-mail gaffes that insult readers and muddy your messages. Learn (and practice) how to make your e-mail communication attention-getting, efficient, productive, polite and correct. Recognize when e-mail does not help you accomplish your business objectives.
 
bullet How to Take Minutes at Meetings:
Demystify the process and actually enjoy the role of recorder. Understand and practice the very different skills of taking notes (listening, comprehending, summarizing,) and drafting the minutes (writing concisely, accurately and articulately; knowing what not to record; employing a simplified format; using minutes to spur action). Receive a useful template to make minute-taking easy and efficient.
 
bullet Individual Coaching:
Benefit from private sessions focusing on your own job writing. Get feedback about your personal strengths and targeted areas for improvement. Benefit from before and after - writing assessments.

 

Susan B. Kline Business Communications
Longmeadow, MA

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