Writing for Success -
Three Levels of Support


Effective Business Writing

This highly interactive, one-day workshop is enjoyable, well paced and applicable to all on-the-job writing.  Participants can expect to:

  • Learn the skills required to create effective and efficient customer-centric communications.
  • Improve style, tone, sentence clarity, organization and English usage.
  • Reduce the time it takes to generate documents.
  • Receive a valuable reference manual and access to a grammar hotline.
  • Benefit from a personal assessment of writing samples.

Participants get all their questions answered and leave with  practical tools to put to immediate use in the workplace. 

Advanced Business Writing                           Read what others say

This half-day workshop builds upon the learning in Effective Business Writing. It is intended for those who write frequent, substantial documents as part of their job. Topics covered during the first part of the workshop are organization, sentence clarity, and common language errors made even by sophisticated writers.    Participants can expect to:

  • Learn how to target and address the reader’s needs and interests.
  • Organize documents for easy understanding.
  • Get the bottom line up front and close the document with strength and good will.
  • Use visuals to complement the written word.
  • Eliminate bothersome errors in word choice and usage.

A special feature of this offering is that each participant must submit in advance a writing sample for evaluation.  At the mid-point, these documents are personally returned with complete written evaluations. Topics for the second part of the workshop are determined by writing issues that emerge in the samples. Therefore, each session is tailored to the needs of participants. 

Participants place tremendous value on receiving thorough evaluations of their writing. To assure further improvement, they have the opportunity to submit two additional samples for evaluation within six months following the workshop.  

Mentoring for Managers

This workshop was developed at the request of management personnel who needed support.  Similar to a 'train the trainer' approach, participants can expect to:

  • Learn how to help others in your organization to improve writing competence.

  • Master the five elements of successful writing.

  • Pinpoint any document’s strengths and weakness.

  • Recognize what not to worry about.

  • Practice a model for delivering feedback.