Seminars

Improve your ability to write, speak, give presentations, run meetings, work collaboratively with others and use electronic etiquette.

We’ll customize seminars and workshops to your business or academic needs.

Or choose from these popular favorites:

Communications Boot Camp

Go from terrified to terrific

Want to reduce your anxiety about speaking and writing?  Communications Camp teaches you to think on your feet, remember details, listen effectively, and get focused. Because we use fun improvisation exercises, engaging activities, and personal feedback, you learn to feel less stress. You become more effective. You can go from a terrified to a terrific communicator! (Communications Camp is co-taught with Mary Elizabeth Holmes, an associate of Words@Work, who brings two decades of experience as a stage and film performer, director, and teacher of improvisational games and techniques.)

 

Collaborative Communications: “Ask About the Boat”

The magic of turning adversaries into advocates

Although you can’t change people, you can change how you deal with them. Learn to strengthen relationships by recognizing early signs of resistance and resentment in others. Using seven simple principles of collaborative communications, you can turn problem people into allies.

 

Run Meetings That Don’t Waste Time

What’s crucial for successful meetings?

You probably know from experience what makes meetings miserable. Now, find out what you can do to run productive and meaningful meetings. Step-by-step, you will learn how to plan and hold successful meetings that people enjoy attending. In the longer format of this seminar, you participate in an actual meeting—a real-time lab to practice and develop your meeting savvy.

 

Write Audit Reports That Get Action

Delivering both good and bad news

Are you an auditor who needs to think like a writer? Do you feel you’re not getting through? We’ll teach you to write audit reports that people will really read and heed. Learn the components of complete audit points. Discover methods to distinguish easily between facts and opinions. If you want to perform your job more professionally, use our highly efficient and effective ways to write audit reports that will be taken seriously. As you know, it’s not only what you say — it’s how you say it.

 

The Writing MAP©

Quickly generate and organize ideas

MAP© is a thinking and outlining technique that solves your frustrating problem of getting ideas down on paper. Write clearer, livelier letters, memos, and reports—in less time than you now spend. When you use the Writing MAP© to plan and outline ideas, your writing improves dramatically. We guarantee it.  (MAP© is a Words@Work method)

*Letters of Recommendation