"I never thought I would enjoy grammar, but the Write Now! and Grammar Now! Workshops made it easy and fun. Thanks for doing what my teachers in high school and college couldn't do." …Administrative Assistant, Solar Turbines, Inc.
"Write Now! was a lot of fun and very practical. I will suggest that everyone use the templates to write memos, letters, reports, and e-mail." …Technical Consultant, Fisher Controls
"Our workshop leader made business writing interesting and the group writing activities were fun. This was an excellent course." …Staff Assistant, Primo Microphones
"I don't know how she did it, but our teacher made us realize that technical writing is alive and interesting. No more boring user manuals and procedures for me. Using the writing methods taught in the Technical Write Now! Workshop will ensure that my user manuals and procedures will be 'usable' and actually read."…Technical Writer, Independent Contractor
"Technical Write Now! should be a must for both those thinking about becoming technical writers and for those already in the field. I have many years as a technical writer, and I learned more than I thought possible. The estimating tool will help me estimate the time required for my documentation projects." …Manager, Technical Writing Department, Software Development
(a 1-day workshop)
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say." …F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This workshop is beneficial for anyone, at any level of the organization, who is responsible to write effective business communication quickly. We teach an easy 6-step process to plan and write concise, direct, readable, and effective memos, letters, reports, and e-mail. Write Now! provides formats and templates for business correspondence to help you write quickly and effectively. Group and solo planning, writing, and editing exercises reinforce the writing techniques taught in Write Now!
(a 1-day workshop)
"Grammar is simply a road map to use for understanding what you and others write and say." …The Princeton Review
How well and how easily you are understood depends on your grammar and punctuation. Like it or not, your credibility as a speaker or writer depends on your proper use of standard grammar and punctuation guidelines. We don't diagram sentences, rather, we approach this subject by investigating the most common grammatical errors in business writing today. Add Grammar Now! (1-day) to Write Now! (1-day) for a practical and complete writing workshop.
(a 1 or 2-day workshop)
"Sharing ideas in [technical] writing is a form of action." …Paul V. Anderson
Technical writing is truly a form of action. We use a reader-centered approach and a practical 8-step process to focus on "real world" technical writing. Our guidelines include easily understood strategies to analyze, design, perform diagnostic interviews to gather information, write, edit, and revise your writing to create policies, procedures, and user manuals that people will actually read and understand. Our Estimating Tool will help you more accurately estimate the time required for your documentation project from beginning to distribution.
(a 1 or 2-day workshop)
"Proposal writing differs from other technical writing. Proposals, most of all, impact your bottom line."
Writers, who review bids for proposals or use written proposals as a primary means to win new business, have a most visible and demanding job. Your skills as a reviewer, planner, and writer directly impact the bottom line of your business. Our 3-step strategy to write proposals that win includes: Analyzing Requests for Information (RFIs) or Requests for Proposals (RFPs); Planning a Winning Strategy, and Writing a Winning Proposal. We will help you meet your goal to create proposals and sales letters that gain new business.
(a 2 day workshop)
"Tell me and I'll forget; Teach me and I'll remember, but Involve me and I'll learn." What is a successful training program? It is difficult to define, but you know the feeling of satisfaction when you have developed and/or delivered a training program that is "right on the mark". Learn specific techniques to create effective, goal-oriented instruction that will provide the Right Training for the Right People at the Right Time. These techniques will help you identify an instructional goal, perform instructional analysis, develop learning objectives, develop criteria-based assessments, and identify appropriate multi-media forms of instruction. Based on Walter Dick and Lou Carey's formula in their "The Systematic Design of Instruction", we will deliver a Systems Approach Model to give you the practical tools you need to develop a "winning" training program.
(Instructional Design for Web-based Training & e-Learning)
(a 2 day workshop)
"Technology-based instruction may reduce the costs of achieving training objectives by 30-60%", according to Technology Assessment in Education & Training. "Web-based training & other e-learning media reduces the time necessary to acquire a skill by 30% with a 2-3% reduction in overhead."
…J.A. Kulik
WHY E-LEARNING?: Never before have we such a variety of options to deliver effective, economical, and enjoyable skills-based training online. The sheer number and variety of web-based courseware are overwhelming. The downside is that many course developers create training programs for distance learning without understanding the unique standards and distinct methodology required to develop creative, interactive, and effective e-learning. It is not enough to simply use technology to develop a course and put it "on the web." Learn a tested, proven six step methodology to develop interactive, effective online training programs.