Business Skills Workshops

Clear business writing spells better results.

Challenge:

Employees often devote up to three hours each day struggling to express their thoughts and recommendations in writing. Sadly, this time is squandered if their emails, memos, reports, and other documents are misinterpreted or even ignored. With awkward sentence structure, poor organization, and murky language, most written communication drops off the radar due to information clutter. To boost business competitiveness, your people must cut through the clutter and communicate clearly–without leaving anything open to misinterpretation or misunderstanding.

Solution:

FranklinCovey's business writing course, Writing Advantage, teaches how to set quality writing standards that help your employees increase productivity, resolve issues, avoid errors, and heighten credibility. Participants learn a four-step process to create writing that cuts through the clutter. They learn how to write faster with more clarity, and gain skills for revising and fine-tuning every kind of document.

About the Course:

Taught as a one-day, in-person or online facilitator-led program, the FranklinCovey Writing Advantage workshop helps individuals learn how to:

1. Organize initial ideas around a clear purpose.
2. Structure a prototype based on solid writing standards.
3. Evolve their prototype into a draft document.
4. Review and refine the draft against formal standards.
5. Produce a final and collaborative edit of their draft.

You Will Learn To:

• Organize initial ideas around a clear purpose
• Structure a prototype based on solid writing standards
• Evolve their prototype into a draft document
• Review and refine the draft against formal standards
• Produce a final and collaborative edit of their draft.

What You Receive:

• A business writing course guidebook with quick reference information
• A Document Planner form that fits right in your FranklinCovey Planning System
• The award-winning FranklinCovey Style Guide
• A FranklinCovey Style Guide CD-ROM

Length of Training:

Live – Online:

Three 90-minute webinar workshop sessions:

• Session A: 9:00 am–10:30 am MT
• 1-Hour Break
• Session B: 11:30 am–1:00 pm MT
• 1-Hour Break
• Session C: 2:00 pm –3:30 pm MT

Continuing Education Credits:

6 Contact Hours
.6 CEU
7 CPE

Learn more about continuing education credits

Now all your employees can experience the world-renowned benefits of FranklinCovey training, no matter where they live and work around the globe. FranklinCovey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Fundamentals workshop is now available online. Our high-quality webinar workshops put the high-quality instruction of FranklinCovey in-person training into convenient online workshops. Engaging and interactive, this workshop offers compelling content and award-winning videos and is now available live online as three 90–minute sessions.

Workshop Tuition

Plan

• Brainstorm and determine the document's purpose, readers' needs, and desired response
• Select the appropriate format for your document
• Break your writing assignments into manageable pieces
• Collect all necessary information before starting to write

Design

• Apply principles of organization using the Four-box Format
• Prioritize flow of writing with the purpose up front
• Write effective subject lines and headings
• Preview key supporting points and relevant details

Draft

• Collect all the pieces to quickly write a well-constructed draft
• Use and apply the FranklinCovey Style Guide™

Revise

• Review with peers, collaborate, and revise to fine-tune documents
• Conduct effective review sessions
• Use three-stage revision process

Delivery Options

• Attend a webinar workshop
• Bring a FranklinCovey consultant to train your organization
• Get certified to teach