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Business Writing Seminars:

We understand that being able to write in a clear and professional style is important to your business. That is why we have developed the Business Writing Institute and the Effective Business Writing seminar. This practice-driven business writing seminar will significantly improve your ability to write in English, so that your readers will receive a clear, concise, effective message. Most professionals spend at least 15-20% of their time writing for business; emails, memos, business letters, reports and other business correspondence. Our customized approach guarantees an improvement in business communication skills that will increase your productivity, success and job satisfaction.

Learn more about our business writing seminars here, or contact us for more information.

 

Benefits of business writing training seminars:

  • learn how to write a business letter
  • discover the skills of writing a business letter
  • learn to create clear business correspondence
  • understand the difference of writing for business
  • improve overall business communication

Business Writing Training Can Make You More Professional

People in business write every day, yet very few ever learn about business writing.

A quality business writing training course can have a major impact. During a downturn, it is natural for some organizations to cut back on training. But a tailored business writing training seminar can have very positive results that last long after the downturn has passed into history.

Becoming a better writer is vital to your image for your image is greatly affected by the way you write. 

Equally, the image of your organization as professional, is profoundly affected by the way you write. If you write poorly for client work, it is the organization's image that suffers. Most people, where they attend a business writing training course, very quickly make a significant improvement to their writing. 

Business Writing Training Advice

There are three major areas to address for this section of  Business Writing Training .

1. Sentence length - shorter sentences are clearer;

2. Varying sentence length - your writing is immediately more interesting if the length of sentences varies; 

3. Simpler words - you communicate better when you use them.

Generally,  Business Writing Training differs significantly from academic writing. 

If you are writing an essay, you usually lay out your foundation then proceed to expound on your thesis or argument. You allow the essay to grow and develop as you take your reader, step-by-step, through your thinking process. But  Business Writing Training is not like this. 

Some of the key features of business writing training are: 

• Business writing is briefer and more concise than most other types of writing;


• Writers have to be conscious of the fact that a letter, memo, or report may only gain the reader's attention for a few seconds; and

• It is important to get to the point quickly. 

In addition to these critical elements, there are some niceties involved with business writing training. When delivering bad news, for example, you don't leap right in, but you work up to your message using diplomacy and tact. Furthermore, you don't waste the reader's time by being obscure.

Generally accepted practices in business writing training, include:

• Writing concisely; 
• Using bullets and headings; 
• Employing plenty of short sentences;
• Keeping your paragraphs brief; and 
• Getting to the point quickly. 

Essentially, business writing training must be reader friendly. If it is not, your efforts to communicate will most likely fail.
A business writing training course can make all these requirements for business writing very clear. 

If a business writing training course is presented professionally, most attendees come away with a different approach to their writing. The impact of a business writing training can be long term and profound.

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