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2-Day Business Writing Workshop

Enhance your business writing skills and save time with the two-day Business Writing Workshop at the American Management Association. Learn simple rules and techniques to improve your writing, organize your thoughts effectively, and communicate with clarity and precision. Bring your project and receive personalized feedback.

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $2,295
  • 205 N Michigan Ave , Chicago, IL
  • 15 hours over 2 sessions
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  • $2,295
  • American Management Association @ 205 N Michigan Ave 10th floor, Chicago, IL 60601
  • 15 hours over 2 sessions
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Description

What you'll learn in this business writing class:

Would you like a quick and easy method for composing documents—letters, memos, reports, proposals and performance appraisals—in an organized format? This business writing workshop provides you with basic formats and formulas for tackling any kind of writing task—and communicating to your readers what they need to know. You’ll streamline your process for effective business writing and save time by focusing on what to write instead of how to write it.  Bring a current project and get one-on-one feedback.

How You Will Benefit

  • Apply simple rules and principles to dramatically improve your business writing
  • Quickly organize your thoughts to generate messages that deliver optimal
  • Eliminate numerous time-consuming revisions
  • Rid your writing of "fluff," so you'll generate concise and compelling content
  • Deploy techniques to communicate more masterfully for a variety of audiences and situations

What You Will Cover

  • Formats and formulas for various writing requirements
  • Gaining familiarity with powerful openings and closings to capture and retain attention
  • Thinking logically by blocking ideas and structuring your document using information modeling
  • Identifying your reader's needs and expectations to establish the purpose and focus
  • Organizing ideas and generating content
  • Learning how and when to use the appropriate tone, persuasion and positive and negative words
  • Techniques for editing and proofreading the final version

You may also choose to bring an existing sample writing piece for one-on-one feedback.

Outline

Standards: Principles of Excellent Business Writing

  • Apply the principles of effective business writing
  • Establish a clear purpose in all of your writing
  • Meet the reader's needs by providing sufficient detail

Structure: Organizing Messages for Maximum Effect

  • Apply techniques for overcoming writer's block
  • Employ understandable patterns of organizing information
  • Use linking words and phrases to connect sentences and paragraphs

Style: Using Language Professionally

  • Achieve clarity and precision in daily business writing
  • Choose concise, direct language
  • Detect tone issues and determine the best tone for a given business writing situation

Synthesis: Techniques for Ensuring Quality Messages

  • Revise first drafts for purposefulness, detail and organization
  • Edit language effectively and efficiently
  • Proofread messages for the most common errors

Who Should Attend

Business professionals at all levels who want a quick and easy approach to effective business writing

Refund Policy

For Classroom, Live Online, Express Skills Courses and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place, or cancel for a 5% fee up to 23 days prior to your program.

If you provide AMA with less than 23 days’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee.

Programs included in AMA On Demand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return, or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can.

Please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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