Business Writing Series: Planning and Organizing Your Writing 2024
2.00 Credits
Member Price $89
Non-Member Price $119
Overview
The biggest mistakes in writing happen before we start to write. This webinar will teach you how to plan and organize any document to convey your message effectively. Knowing the purpose, analyzing the reader, and focusing on your point determine whether your message succeeds. Effective planning gives you a solid base to begin writing your document. If you struggle to get started writing, this program will help you. This program will guide you if you tend to get lost in the weeds. This program will give you focus if you get overwhelmed with information and overwhelm your readers.
Highlights
- Business writing
- Planning writing projects
- Project management
- Proposal writing
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Staff, managers and partners.
Objectives
- Identify the purpose of a sample document
- Identify the point of a sample document
- Identify the hot buttons and inner questions of your reader
- Plan an upcoming document, identifying the purpose, targeting the reader, and honing the point
- Name three principles of effective organization
Preparation
Think of an important document you need to write soon. Be prepared to plan it.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Elizabeth Danziger, CalCPA Education Foundation
Elizabeth Brenner Danziger, founder of Worktalk Communications Consulting, enables people to achieve success through better writing. Improved writing means greater productivity, better customer service, quicker adoption of internal initiatives, fewer misunderstandings, faster completion of key work and enhanced relationships. Ms. Danziger has trained businesspeople throughout the U.S. and has worked with executives from many major corporations. She brings 28 years of experience to her work. Danziger’s clients include a wide range of businesses, including professional service firms such as Sullivan and Cromwell; Nixon Peabody; Ernst and Young; PragerMetis; RBZ; CohnReznick; Miller, Kaplan, Arase and others. Ms. Danziger’s clients develop a keen insight into their product or service and see how to convey their message clearly. They learn techniques that help them build more powerful relationships through the written word. In addition, they learn practical ways to get to the point and write successfully. In email seminars, participants master three elements of effective email: clear writing, good judgment and efficient productivity. Ms. Danziger received her B.A. from Pomona College in Claremont, California and holds a Certificate of Executive Education from the UCLA Anderson School of Business. She has written four books, the most recent of which is Get to the Point!, which was originally published by Random House and is now in its second edition. Her work has been published throughout the world.
Non-Member Price $119
Member Price $89