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Many
organizations that wouldn’t dream of asking
untrained employees to balance the company’s
books will expect untrained employees to
write effective business messages or present
them in-house or to the community.
Fortunately, that is changing as enlightened
leaders recognize how easily their company
can lose business and credibility by asking
staff to write and make presentations
without being trained.
I bring 30 years of writing and teaching
experience to my workshops; I show
participants the steps to take to easily
draft messages that are clear and to the
point; messages that will get the desired
results.
I’m the author of hundreds of articles plus
20 books including
The Job Survival
Instruction Book: 400+ Tips, Tricks,
and Techniques to Stay Employed (the
first edition was named one of the top 10
selling career books by The Wall Street
Journal); Take Charge of Your
Career! 365 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to
Achieve Happiness at Work and in Life
(to be published late 2011 by Course
Technology PTR, a division of Cengage), and
an award-winning memoir,
Learning to
Trust Myself: Lessons From Cancer
and Other Life Dilemmas.
I've been a corporate writer and editor, and
I've spent
years in both inside and outside sales. I
was an officer, and I won hundreds of
ribbons at Toastmasters for speaking and
critiquing others.
My communication training workshops are fun
and full of valuable information that will
significantly increase participants’ skills,
boost morale and performance, and contribute
to professional communication throughout the
organization.
Here are some examples:
Punctuation and Grammar Made Simple
Employees
who use incorrect grammar and punctuation
make readers question their
professionalism and the professionalism of
the entire organization.
I show
participants how to use punctuation and
grammar correctly, and each will get a 20+
page reference booklet to take with them so
they won’t have to memorize much.
Simple Tips for Workplace Writing
The casual
nature of social communication can leave
employees confused about what’s appropriate
for communication at work. I show
participants why it’s important to adopt the
company’s preferred communication style and
what that style is.
Change
Your Stories, Change Your Life
We create
our daily experiences – the good and not so
good – with the stories we tell. The
stories we tell ourselves and others about
what we can and cannot have and do… how
people and events should or should not be...
affect everything at work and at home.
I show
participants how to identify unhelpful
stories, how to notice when they're telling
them, and how to change them to stories that
are helpful.
10 Ways
to Stress Less and Still Get the Results You
Want
Unmanaged
stress costs employers thousands of dollars
for each employee, each year, in sick
days, hospital stays, ongoing medical care,
burnout, and attrition. The list of diseases
and unhealthy conditions that are caused by
stress grows nearly every day, and so does
the level of employee anger, frustration,
anxiety, and apathy.
Stress is
something we each create for ourselves with
our thinking. Eliminating stress is
possible, and I show participants how.
Business
and Report Writing: Get the Results You Want
You need
employees who can write clear and focused
letters, e-mails and reports, but few have
been taught how to present information so it
gets the desired results. Material that has
punctuation or grammar errors or
inappropriate slang embarrasses both the
employee and the employer; material that is
unorganized, unfocused or unclear frustrates
readers and can cost your company business.
I show
participants ways to write that save time
and money and get the results they want.
Write and
Deliver Presentations and Get the Results
You Want
People who
have not been specifically trained to write
and deliver presentations run the
risk of wasting time and money, and actually
turning listeners against the message the
speaker wants them to buy. I show
participants how to write highly effective
presentations quickly and how to deliver
them comfortably.
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