WGTD Seminar—Onsite Classroom Training

Clear Communication Drives ProductivityBoost Your Productivity
We teach busy employees how to solve problems, meet deadlines, and keep projects on target by Writing to Get Things Done (WGTD). Productivity soars when people clearly communicate what needs to get done and when. When organizations create a critical mass of people writing to get things done—things get done!

Course Description
This popular onsite business writing seminar focuses on improving productivity—using writing as a powerful tool for getting things done. Clear writing is clear thinking framed for the reader using plain language.

WGTD focuses on improving participants’ actual on-the-job business writing skills—writing clear, easy-to-read emails, letters, and reports. Employees learn how to write quickly and effectively, saving time for themselves and their readers. They will impress others with their ability to get to the point quickly, clearly, and concisely!

Target Audience
This is not a remedial writing program for “problem writers.” This business writing skills course is for everyone who uses writing to get things done. WGTD is a must for architects, attorneys, analysts, engineers, contract specialists, and managerial and professional staff whose job requires effective written and email communications.

Course Length: One-day: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Course Objectives
The skills/concepts provided in this lively hands-on seminar teach people to present their ideas clearly in all business communications, regardless of length or medium, including letters, memos, reports, voice mails, and email messages.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Clarify thoughts before writing.
  • Keep a business perspective
  • Separate the readers’ needs from the writer’s needs.
  • Use the inverted-pyramid principle of organization.
  • Use a listing paragraph format to highlight key ideas.
  • Use the language of getting things done vs. business speak.
  • Develop a professional tone that encourages cooperation.
  • Use our three models of organization for all business writing, including emails.
  • Write technical information to non-technical people.

A Learning and Development Process, Not a Training Event
For training to be effective, participants must learn the material and put what they learned into practice. The following activities ensure mastery of Writing to Get Things Done (WGTD).

WGTD Business Writing Seminar Process

Pre-seminar Analysis: Two weeks before the seminar, each participant emails us a business writing sample for review—this can be an email, letter, memo, or report. We suggest ways to highlight key ideas and simplify the organizational style. This analysis and feedback prepares participants with specific business writing skills to work on and makes the transfer of learning quick and easy.

Seminar Session: The focus is on improving participants’ actual on-the-job business writing skills. Participants are amazed at how quick and easy it is to rewrite their pre-seminar business writing samples using our feedback as a guide to write more clearly.

Follow-up Support: In keeping with our commitment to offer a learning and development process, we offer a number of free value-added options to help seminar participants become more productive on the job. Upon course completion, we invite learners to support their new business writing skills with these supplemental activities:

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