Writing for Results
Train your team to write crisp, clear, and concise business documents
Every day, organizations lose money and expose themselves to excess risk because of poorly written communications.
This program enhances your team’s strategic communication skills by giving them the toolkit to write clear and concise business documents that eliminate confusion, make good use of both the writer’s and reader’s time, and help the reader make more informed business decisions and avoid costly mistakes.
Over the past 30 years, we’ve provided this training to many different organizations in nearly every function within an organization, including marketing, finance, IT, human resources, operations, internal audit, and compliance testing.
Minimize Errors and Reduce Risk with Effective Business Writing
After completing Writing for Results, participants are equipped to write more clearly, thus reducing misunderstanding, wasted effort, rework, and editing.
This impacts the organization at every level:
Managers and directors waste less time reading unclear and poorly organized writing. Instead, these leaders have a clear understanding of the situation at hand.
Business leaders have the information required to make confident and informed decisions.
Business leaders can act to take advantage of opportunities and decrease risk.
What Participants Learn
Throughout the program, participants learn how to communicate information, recommendations, and ideas through implementing the key skills for effective writing:
Expressing ideas and information clearly and concisely, enabling readers to grasp key points quickly.
Presenting information and recommendations persuasively and compellingly, thereby gaining commitment to act to bring about desired business results.
Avoiding common errors in grammar, word choice, and syntax that lead to misunderstanding or wasted time.
Presenting themselves as effective professionals through their written communication.
“The most important thing to me is that a program like this is customized to meet the goals of my business—not just something that's off the shelf and is boring, irrelevant, or not germane to what we're talking about.
You get a high level of customization with them—the content, and the commitment to make sure the program is put together executed well, and that there's proper follow-up. I think that's what really makes them stand out as a provider.”
ROSS DALTON
Former Senior Vice President, GTECH Corporation
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Targeted Customization
We tailor the program for your specific situations, needs, and organizational culture.
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Focused Skill-Building
Participants experience intensive practice and skill-building rather than only learning concepts and theory.
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1:1 Writing Coaching
Our writing coach meets 1:1 with each participant to review their writing samples and provide concrete feedback and guidance to improve their writing.
While he was with our unit, his sentences continued to shorten and the bottom line was always stated first. These changes resulted in shorter and easy-to-read narratives.
"We have also amended our unit’s narrative structure to be more of a series of guidelines rather than a template. This updated narrative guideline will encourage conciseness, reduce repetition, and state the bottom line first."
MANAGER OF A PARTICIPANT
Quality Control, Fortune 500 Financial Services Institution
Effective Business Writing for Improved Performance
One of the reasons we promise such amazing results is that we track key metrics to ensure that our programs create sustained, measurable results for our clients:
Post-Program Survey: Following the program, we seek feedback from participants in which they assess their writing skills and confidence both before and after the course.
Reporting & Analysis: After receiving feedback from participants, we provide a written summary with recommendations and meet with you to review it.
Additional Follow-Up: We’ll work with you to identify opportunities to sustain and further improve effective business writing habits.
For information regarding NASBA certification and obtaining CPEs for Writing for Results, please click here for group live delivery, or click here for group internet delivery.
Program Details
Real-Life Practice: In customizing Writing for Results for your organization, we use real-life examples and exercises from your organization and from participants’ own work.
12+ Hours: Typically, Writing for Results is 12 hours, including time for practice and feedback, plus a 15- to 20-minute 1:1 session with the Writing Coach.
12 Participants: This program has a maximum of 12 participants.
1:1 Coaching: Each participant spends 15-20 minutes with the Writing Coach, who reviews their writing samples and provides written and oral feedback and guidance for improvement.
Practice, Coaching, and Feedback: This program combines writing practices, peer critiques, and expert coaching, using writing samples each participant provides in advance of the workshop.
Offered In-Person and Virtually: We offer Writing for Results both in-person at the client’s location of choice and virtually via Zoom. We’ll work with you to weigh the advantages of each and help determine which makes most sense for your organization.
What’s Included
In addition to the 12 hours of training and 1:1 coaching session with the writing coach, participants receive all necessary training materials, including a training manual that will serve as a reference when they return to their jobs, and a laminated job aid featuring key reminders from the class. The post-program survey is also included (more details below).
“I have seen several people implement the changes discussed during our sessions. Most important, investigators are writing the bottom line first and working on active voice. Overall, the writing samples continue to improve.”
MANAGER OF A PARTICIPANT
Quality Control, Fortune 500 Financial Services Institution
Get Started
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