Business Writing

This program is also available for online training. See details below.

If you write well, you will often do well. It's that simple. But many of us haven't taken a writing course since high school or college. When we sit down to write, we confront a frustrating, time-consuming task. Words and meaning elude us. Precious hours march by as we stare at a blank computer screen. Don't despair. You don't have to be a best-selling author to write clearly and effectively. You just need to follow the program in Writing for Business Results. This clear-cut, non-threatening approach gives you the principles you need to make your writing powerful, interesting and relevant to the reader.

You'll improve all aspects of your business writing from memos to e-mails to detailed annual reports by learning how to:

• Put the "Five C's" of effective writing to work
• Create a plan for letters, memos and e-mail
• Keep your messages short and simple
• Grab your readers with a strong opening line
• Provide the detail needed to support your writing
• Apply the Six Principles of The Writer's Edge

Sharpen your pencils, fire up your computer, and write for results! This new training program comes complete with a DVD, CD audio and copy of the book Writing for Business Results by Patricia E. Seraydarian, which is part of the Business Skills Express Series published by The McGraw-Hill Companies.

25 minutes.

Online Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

Produced - 1998

Free PreviewAbout the program Everyone can improve their written communication skills. This training pack succeeds in explaining the techniques required to get your point across in writing clearly and persuasively, even if you are not a natural writer. Nisha coaches two of her colleagues: Marcus who is struggling to write a letter and Alan who I trying to write an email.

Nisha explains the importance of uncovering the 'purpose of writing', which is what they hope their written communication will achieve. She encourages them to construct a plan in order to ensure they include everything they wish to say.

She also reveals how to draw a spider diagram, which requires them to order their points to ensure they flow in a logical sequence.

She then reviews Marcus's and Alan's first drafts, explaining how to improve their writing with some fine tuning

The summary section of this video recaps the learning points and offers tips on the importance of:

• Gathering the relevant information
• Planning
• Identifying the 'purpose of writing'
• Using the active voice
• Avoiding business jargon
• Avoiding pomposity
• Short sentences
• Short paragraphs
• Checking and proofing

Program includes: DVD (20 mins), trainer's guide and self-study guide.

• Put it in Writing - DVD $870.00 [Add to Cart]

This program is also available for online training. See details below.

There is nothing like good writing. Good writing may stretch our imaginations. And, yes it may be difficult and time consuming. But the ability to communicate clearly and succinctly and have people understand what we are saying is critically important both in our business and personal lives.

The Write Stuff DVD training program provides a practical how-to guide to help you become a better writer-both professionally and personally.

In this truly non-threatening training program you'll learn:

• The two unbreakable rules of writing
• Techniques needed to make reports, memos, letters and business presentations more understandable by your readers
• How to eliminate writer's block how to answer many of the tough grammar questions
• How to truly reward yourself for completing your writing assignment

"The Write Stuff" video training program comes complete with a DVD, audio CD and book that contains numerous vignettes and graphics to help you learn more quickly and easily. If you want to improve your writing, this program is a must! We hope you will give it a try.

Program Includes: A 39 minute DVD, book and audio CD.

Online Training Option:

This program is also available over the web or over your company’s network. This option makes it is easy for you to deliver video to any employee’s desktop at any location with web access. The online program includes:

Communication Skills…What Everyone Needs to Know
Effective communication is the difference between productivity and chaos in the workplace. There are basic skills you must learn and apply to ensure your message is understood every time. But too often we forget the fundamentals as we rush to complete more work in less time. In this new training program you'll learn practical techniques to improve all your communication skills-written, oral, electronic, and face-to-face.
Includes DVD and Everyday Communication Techniques for the Workplace management book.

How to Build a High-Performance Workforce…The Keys to Effective Supervision
Whether it's your first day as a supervisor or you're a seasoned veteran, this training program will make you even better at your job. You'll learn to develop the critical skills you need to be a truly effective leader-communicate with clarity, make effective and timely decisions, recruit, train, motivate and retain a successful workforce! Even the busiest managers can apply the training techniques found in this new program.
Includes DVD and Developing a High-Performance Workforce book.

The Basics of How to Plan, Write and Give A Winning Presentation
Be ready to anticipate the moment. Feel the goals and aspirations of your audience and make the presentation of your life! Divided into three sections-planning, writing and giving a presentation, this new training program will help you overcome the “presentation jitters” and deliver what the audience expects-a great speech!
Includes DVD and 75 Ways to Improve Your Next Speech book.

• The Communication Combination Offer - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]

Effective communication is the difference between productivity and chaos in the workplace. There are basic skills you must learn and apply to ensure your message is understood every time. But too often we forget the fundamentals as we rush to complete more work in less time. In Communication Skills - What Everyone Needs to Know you’ll learn practical techniques to improve all your communication skills—written, oral, electronic, and face-to-face. Includes DVD and Everyday Communication Techniques for the Workplace management book. 30 minutes.

• Communication Skills - What Everyone Needs to Know DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]

Release - 1996

Solid communication skills are keys to a smooth transition from school to work. Using engaging scenarios to dramatize real-world communication breakdowns and demonstrate how employees overcome them, this four-part series addresses the cornerstones of communication: listening, speaking, writing, and reading. A 4-part series, 18-23 minutes each.

• Business Communication Series - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]

Learn the basic skills necessary to compete in today's complex marketplace with the new Frontline Library. Complete with 10 DVDs, 2 videocassettes, 10 books and 7 audio CDs.

These programs provide the fast-paced material needed to improve the performance of the new employee or the long-time veteran.

Your cost $1,115! If you were to buy these programs individually, the total would be $1,417.50. Buy the complete library and save $302.50!

The Frontline Library includes the following titles:

• Succeed by Listening
• How to Handle Difficult People (3 Volumes)
• How to Make Winning Presentations
• Communicate and Win
• Writing for Business Results
• Effective Teamwork
• Telephone Skills at Work
• Time Management: Ideas that Work
• How to Set and Really and Really Achieve your goals
• The Basics of Business Etiquette

• Frontline Library - (10 DVD Set) $1,115.00 [Add to Cart]

Produced - 2008

Cindy dreams of being a gourmet chef. Over the course of this program, these students learn how to write functional, chronological, combination, and newsletter-style resumes using information on their skills and experience that they identify through two exercises: Personal Inventory (to capture the “what”) and Showing Your COLORS (to uncover the “how”). Ways to get a resume in front of a decision-maker’s eyes are also addressed, and insightful snippets of commentary by a career counselor and an HR professional are interspersed throughout. Engaging and informative, Resumes: A How-To Guide is an excellent introduction to resume-writing for students with little or no job experience—yet. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act. Recommended for grades 10-college. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. (22 minutes) Available June 2008.

• Resumes: A How-To Guide - DVD $99.99 [Add to Cart]