Preparing for your workshop
Before the workshop, prepare by gathering
- a writing sample of five pages total (bring two copies)
- an idea for a job-related, one- to two-page document that you will
write during the workshop.
Assess your skills
Our instructors provide you with the tools to assess your writing
samples during the workshop—tools that may be applied to
future documents as well. Bring your samples to the workshop
and you will receive
- a personal assessment of strengths and weaknesses
- a constructive critique of your writing samples
- recommended exercises—always job-related—based
on individually diagnosed needs.
Learn by doing
You will practice applying The Six Steps to Reader-Centered
Writing® to your own job-related project. The workshop is
a lively combination of short lectures, group exercises, discussions,
and individual activities.
Private coaching session gives you personal feedback
and support
On Day Two, you complete the workshop with a 25-minute private
conference with one of our coaches, a consulting editor who critiques
hundreds of documents annually. Our customers find this individual
follow-up vital to improving writing performance. If you are
unable to attend the private conference, we can arrange a remote
coaching session, but it must take place on the scheduled coaching
day after the workshop.
What books and materials do you receive?
- Write to the Top®: Writing for CorporateSuccess (Random
House) by Deborah Dumaine, founder of Better Communications®
- Instant-Answer Guide to Business Writing, also
by Deborah Dumaine
- Better Communications' workbook, with additional exercises
tailored to your needs
- Laminated job aid: The Six Steps to Reader-Centered Writing and
the Focus Sheet™
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I
think this class will help me from now on in every document
I create for the rest of my life. 
