Executive Workshops | Description | Hours |
| Bite the bullet: Write better presentation slides | If you're new to digital presentations, or want to make them better, attend this workshop to learn practical, proven ways to improve your presentation slides. This workshop encourages participants to write informative, persuasive, and effective presentations. Learners analyze slide shows and participate in interactive discussion and individual and group practice activities. | 6 |
| Managing your employees' writing | Often, employees may be thrust into the position of managing the writing of others without enough training or background. This course will provide an introduction on how to best manage writing projects and writing teams; special focus is placed on reviewing and reacting to the writing of subordinates in positive and constructive ways. Combined with "Editing for your employees' writing" workshop, this course provides a lively, one-day skill-building in communicating with employees about their writing. | 3 |
| Editing your employees' writing | Often, managers may be thrust into the position of editing the writing of others without enough training or background. This course will provide an introduction to best practices in editing, including a review of recent changes in the English language. Combined with "Managing your employees' writing" workshop, this course provides a lively, one-day skill-building in communicating with employees about their writing. | 4 |
Employee Workshops | Description | Hours |
| Technical writing | Presents principles of good technical writing and provides opportunities to apply them directly and get feedback in a structured, risk-free environment. Specifically focuses on proposals and procedures. | 9 or 12 |
| Business writing | Presents principles of good business writing and provides opportunities to apply them directly and get feedback in a structured, risk-free environment. Covers correspondence and reports. | 9 or 12 |
| Grammar refresher | A lively, interactive tour of current usage, punctuation, capitalization, apostrophe usage, and numbers. | 8 or 9 |
| Writing better correspondence | This workshop will show how letters, memos, and e-mail differ and how to develop logical, high-impact correspondence, including how to adapt to different audiences. | 3 |
| Writing better reports | This course is for everyone who has to write activity reports, progress reports, final reports, performance appraisals, lab reports, minutes for meetings, book reviews, expense reports, trip reports, audit reports, and scrap/waste/defect reports. | 3 |
| Writing better proposals | Many employees are not used to persuading others. This course will help them make their case to a variety of audiences. | 3 |
| Writing better procedures | Often, employees must write procedures for ISO 9000, Sarbanes-Oxley, or other regulatory purposes without experience or training. This course will introduce employees to best practices in writing procedures. | 3 |
| Writing better e-mail | This program will present best practices in writing e-mail messages, including practice and interaction. | 3 |
| Writing better meeting minutes | This program will show you how to produce easy-to-read minutes (decisions made, action items, and open issues). | 3 |
| Proofread like a pro | A thorough introduction to proofreading skills and techniques. (Note: Grammar will not be taught in this class. Please see Grammar Refresher). | 3 |
