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Confident Business Writing: 6 Week E-Course

22 June, 2008 Posted by Joanna As Coaching

Would you like to be more confident in your business writing?

Confident Writing At Work is a 6 week e-course that’ll help you do just that. It covers 3 basic principles of good business writing:

  • Writing with authenticity: writing like a human being; using your own words; reflecting your own values

  • Writing with brevity: sticking to the point; cutting out excess words; making life easier for your reader
  • Writing with clarity: using clear, plain language; signposting your work; getting clear on the point

You’ll spend two weeks working on each of those topics. With each core lesson you’ll get:

  • Lead article: introducing the key principles and explaining how they’ll improve your business writing
  • Plain English tips: 5 practical tips that you can start using now to improve your writing
  • Audio writing tips: A 5 minute audio clip with 5 ways that you can change and improve your written work
  • Coaching session: Questions and challenges to help you banish limiting beliefs & achieve your goals
  • Action list: prompts and suggestions for actions that you can take to improve your writing

You’ll get a sample of the style and format of the course materials in this free taster session: What’s Up With Our Writing At Work?

Not Just Writing Tips But Coaching Too

You’ll get a coaching session each week as well as the writing tips and advice. That’s because you’re the person who’s doing the writing at work and we need to factor you into the equation! The coaching sessions will help you make rapid progress by:

  • Getting clear on the underlying purpose in your business writing
  • Letting go of limiting beliefs
  • Reframing negative self-talk into more positive, encouraging language
  • Focusing on your goals and making progress week by week
  • Coaching yourself: identifying the progress you’ve made and working out ‘what’s the next step’
  • Tuning into positive feedback on your writing and learning from it

These are also sound coaching principles which you can take and apply to other areas of your business and life.

6 Week E-Course

The course lasts for 6 weeks, and should take you 12 hours to complete (including time to work through the materials, and then to put your learning into action).

There are 8 lessons in total. There are 6 core lessons (with the content described above). You’ll also get one introductory session to get you thinking about the context for your writing and the relationship you have with your words and one round up session at the end to help you reflect on what you’ve learned and identify the actions that you want to take forward.

The lessons are sent to you by e-mail. The e-mail will include a link to a page containing your materials for that lesson. This includes audio clips for you to listen to on-line and documents (pdfs) for you to download.

The course costs £40/$80 for the 8 lessons.

You can pay direct through PayPal by clicking the ‘buy now’ button below. You’ll receive your first lesson within 24 hours of signing up for the course.

Firewall Issues?

If you are working behind a firewall and know you have difficulty accessing external sites please check that you’ll be able to access the materials. You can check now by clicking on this link: Test Page

Please contact me at joanna@confidentwriting.com if you cannot access the site. I can arrange to send the materials to you by e-mail for a small admin fee (£5/$10 per course).

Joanna Young, The Confident Writing Coach
Because our words count

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