Excellent combination of relevant topics, useful workbook, and teaching techniques.
Ken Hartsoe, IBM
Delivered to over 100 organizations, this lively, hands-on workshop trains participants in a writing process that guarantees targeted, clear, and concise documents.
Benefits:This fun, informative workshop—delivered to over 1000 participants—trains attendees to design and deliver engaging business and technical presentations.
Benefits:This workshop trains meeting facilitators in a process that targets meetings toward specific outcomes and ensures meeting attendees contribute in a constructive, concrete way.
Benefits:Developed by two leading experts in career design, this workshop assesses employees’ “motivated skills” and helps to align the skills with the appropriate career path in their organization.
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After reviewing hundreds of writing samples from workshops in 2011, three writing basics stand out as necessary to make writing positive and clear. Test your daily writing for these: 1. Positive wording: Attitude, attitude, attitude. Doesn’t it make a big difference? We all enjoy working with people who come at a problem with a constructive approach—those who take time to consider all possible solutions. These people’s attitudes are reflected in [...]
By Andrew Moore I recently had a chance to review your work and what I found shocked me. Of course, I don’t know you from Adam, but did I get your attention? Are you curious to know what shocked me? An opening line that draws in your readers is the best way to generate interest in your writing. In journalism, it’s called the lead, and it’s the most important sentence [...]
By Alison Rosen I’m one of those weirdos who actually enjoys public speaking, so I was surprised, early this summer, when the thought of giving a toast at my sister’s wedding began to fill me with dread. It wasn’t so much that I had to stand up in front of people and talk—I’ve been doing variations of that sort of thing on TV, on the radio, on podcasts, in front [...]
By Andrew Moore Have you ever opened an email to realize you need to block out half your day to get through it? How many of us have opened one of these monsters and scrolled to the end before even beginning to read it, just to mentally prepare ourselves? Email has revolutionized the workplace, but like all communication, it’s only effective if it gets and maintains our attention. And in [...]
By Barry Mohn Occum’s Razor, loosely interpreted, is a principle stating that the simplest method is often the best. Philosopher William of Ockham surely would have approved of clustering then. Clustering, believed to have started in Roman times, is a technique that helps create a hierarchy of ideas around a central purpose or problem. Circa 75 BC, Cicero etched clusters for his speeches on clay tablets. Today, third graders mark [...]
“This class was more fun and open than any other class that I’ve been in. This atmosphere made everyone open up and get involved.”
John Mauro
Vanstar Corp.
“I would have to say that you are among the best, if not the best instructor I have seen brought in to NISH. Your enthusiasm is CONTAGIOUS and INSPIRATIONAL! ”
Paul Cataldo
NISH
“…thank you for the information provided during the course of the workshop. It was refreshing to have professional communication experts with knowledge on how to write audit reports.”
Julie Betts
Canada Border Services Agency
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