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Writing with Confidence, Clarity, and Style

Sharpen Your Skills to Convey Credibility and Get Results

Become Confident In Your Business Writing Your writing skills are on display every day. Writing is an expression of how you think: It expresses what you mean, want, and feel. Muddled prose implies confused thinking. In fact, weak communication skills can hinder your career advancement and can even make it difficult to get hired. But writing well requires knowledge, practice, and confidence. This webinar helps refresh your knowledge of writing rules, lets you practice business writing and editing skills, and reveals proven techniques for building your writing confidence. In addition, you’ll get tips for overcoming writer’s block and tactics to prevent common mistakes. About Your Instructor Pamela Skillings is co-founder of Skillful Communications. As an interview coach she has helped her clients land dream jobs at companies including Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase. She also has more than 15 years of experience training and advising managers at organizations from American Express to the City of New York. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and an instructor at the American Management Association.

Seminar Number: 82181

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  • At Your Company Location

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Who Should Attend

Senior executives, managers, administrative and clerical staff, salespeople, and customer service representatives who would like to improve their professional writing style.

 

Become Confident In Your Business Writing

Your writing skills are on display every day.

Writing is an expression of how you think: It expresses what you mean, want, and feel. Muddled prose implies confused thinking. In fact, weak communication skills can hinder your career advancement and can even make it difficult to get hired.

But writing well requires knowledge, practice, and confidence.

This webinar helps refresh your knowledge of writing rules, lets you practice business writing and editing skills, and reveals proven techniques for building your writing confidence. In addition, you’ll get tips for overcoming writer’s block and tactics to prevent common mistakes.

About Your Instructor

Pam Skillings Pamela Skillings is co-founder of Skillful Communications. As an interview coach she has helped her clients land dream jobs at companies including Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.

She also has more than 15 years of experience training and advising managers at organizations from American Express to the City of New York. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and an instructor at the American Management Association.

Good writing skills can help you perform better and establish your professional brand. Attend this engaging webinar to get deeper insights and practical tips that will fine-tune your writing abilities:

  • 5 critical rules to improve your business writing
  • Specific advice that helps you evaluate your first draft
  • Advice for writing compelling email subject lines
  • A handy “know your reader” checklist to focus your writing on its intended audience
  • How to self-edit your work to quickly cut out the “fluff”
  • 3 proven methods to overcome writer’s block
  • Steps to keep your tone professional
  • Tips on common writing mistakes to avoid
  • Advice on building your writing confidence

How You Will Benefit

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the fundamentals of good business writing
  • Explain common writing mistakes to avoid
  • Utilize solid techniques to build your writing confidence
  • Write clear emails, memos, reports, and other business documents

How AMA Webinars Work

AMA Webinars provide you with a cost-effective and convenient way to boost your know-how. You can participate in the comfort of your home or office without the need for travel costs and time.

BONUS:  Paid registrants will also get a single-user license to access a recorded archive of the program for a full year so that you can watch the program again and again to boost your skill set.

Please note that AMA Webinars are designed to provide a one-to-one learning experience for an individual and are not designed to be viewed in a group setting. Program access is available only via the MYAMA account of the registered attendee.

To fully participate in this electronic, interactive and live session, please check your system (or ask your IT department) to ensure it meets the following requirements:

Supported OS, Browser and Additional Requirements

  • Windows 7 and above; Google Chrome (v66.0 & above), Internet Explorer (v11.0 & above), Mozilla Firefox (v55.0 & above), or Microsoft Edge (v16 & above)
  • Mac OS X 10.11, 10.12 and 10.13; Google Chrome (v66.0 & above), Apple Safari (v11.0 & above) and Mozilla Firefox (v55.0 & above)
  • Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Google Chrome and Adobe Flash Player 23.0
  • Google Android 4.4 or later
  • Apple iOS: iOS 8.1.2 or later

If you are using an unsupported version of a Windows, Mac, or Linux operating system, you may experience difficulty in viewing and/or listening to the event.

Test Your Computer

The audio portion of this AMA web event will be delivered directly through your computer’s speakers or attached headphones. To fully participate in this electronic, interactive, live session, please test your system and review the requirements (or ask your IT department) before the program begins:

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Additional Requirements:

  • Minimum bandwidth requirement is 512 kbps for meeting attendees
  • POP-UP Blockers must be turned off to access the program.

Important tip - Please allow 15 minutes prior to joining a session to conduct your set-up and testing!

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Online Schedule

1 Session Available

199.00 $
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