Full-day Training:Advanced Business Writing Skills (English session) Go back »
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Time2016-10-19 | 09:00 - 17:00
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Venue:The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204
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Fee:Members: 2200 RMB |
Non Members: 3300 RMB
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How do you define good writing? In this multinational corporate world, excellent writing skills are the pillar to good communication. Through this highly interactive one day seminar, you will learn the keys to making your writing excel above the rest and getting the results you want. Whether it be writing an important memo to a customer, an internal e-mail to your staff, or simply a note to a colleague, your business writing will reach a new pinnacle.
BENEFITS
With two seasoned instructors, this one-day session is tailored to give each attendee individual coaching and feedback, thus ensuring behavioral change. Through this dynamic, highly-interactive session each participant will learn and put into practice the following key skills:
- Audience focused writing
- Writing that gets results
- Clear and logical writing structure
- Style and tone appropriate to the audience and purpose of writing
- Presenting bad news when writing
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Staff of all seniority and experience who want to improve their clarity, persuasion, and writing skills should attend this seminar.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
9:00 AM—Session Start
The value of professional writing
Challenges and goals of good business writing
Designing your message
Thinking about your audience
Choosing the right communication channel
Choosing the "Write Voice" 3 common voices in business writing and their effect on the reader
Student Practice and Feedback
12:00-1:00 Lunch
Subject headings: Developing & Writing Subject headings
Purpose Statements: Stating your purpose and any additional information clearly and concisely
Presenting Information: Paragraphs or lists: why, when and how to use paragraphs and lists. Finding your friend voice: Passive vs Active sentence. Word economizing: Using less words to express yourself
Next Step: Making polite recommendations and requests. Additional tone tips to make your requests more persuasive
Sign Off: Closing emails with a positive and helpful tone. Common Chinglish errors in email writing
Student Activity and Feedback
Final Presentations & Feedback
End of Day Review
5:00 PM—Session Ends
Speakers
Mr. Liam Callaghan
As a certified learning and development professional with over a decade of experience, Liam is a trainer with a proven track record of providing training that is highly engaging and extremely valuable for today’s workforce. Based in the fast paced multi-cultural city of Shanghai his training and consulting is always relevant and culturally aware. His career in China began in 2006 and since then has consistently conducted leadership and communication related workshops to groups ranging in size from 1 to 100 helping hundreds know what it takes to effectively lead their teams and companies to a successful future. He has been a regularly featured facilitator at the American Chamber of Commerce member training events in Shanghai and SuZhou and has recently been involved in several projects with the goal of defining a new generation of cross culturally competent leaders. He is known throughout China as a passionate, warm, enthusiastic and experienced facilitator that is able to create real change for you or your team
