What is Business Writing Solutions?
Business Writing Solutions is a two-day business writing seminar presented onsite by Jonathan Clark, the top business writing trainer in America. Jonathan conceived, wrote and presents the program to clients such as Southwest Airlines, Department of Defense, Fox Broadcasting, National Institute of Health, Los Angeles County and NASA-Kennedy Space Center. This unconditionally-guaranteed business writing seminar helps people write better and at least 30 percent faster. It is also available on CD and as a public seminar.
Eliminate Half The Words You Write!
BREAKING OLD HABITS
Habits from days gone by still affect our writing. Teachers assigned papers and essays to us in school, and required a specific number of words or pages. We groaned, sat down and wrote everything we could on the topic. Then we did the dreaded “word count.” Inevitably, we ended up dozens (or hundreds) [...]
Do You Love Needless Phrases?
DO YOU LOVE NEEDLESS PHRASES?
Writers often use phrases that don’t add to their writing. They put them in every document, and think they’re using good writing technique and good communication. Turn them loose with a letter or memo, and some will use one to begin every paragraph.
Readers skip those phrases completely, and may turn the [...]
Business Writing: See The Big Picture
For the past six and a half years I’ve written this monthly newsletter, focusing on small ideas and pieces of the total process we call Business Writing. From time to time, it’s a good idea to step back and look at the big picture. I promise you: reading and applying this month’s information will revolutionize [...]
Full StoryLincoln’s Gettysburg Address
The best writing reaches a desired reader (or readers) at levels comfortable to their reading ability. If you write something too hard for people to read and understand, you’re not likely to enjoy much success.
Many people consider the Gettysburg Address the greatest American speech. For decades, middle school students have struggled to memorize it. Nearly [...]
Check Your Writing’s Readability
Check Your Writing’s Readability
The best writing reaches readers at levels comfortable to their reading ability. If you write something too hard for people to read and understand, you won’t enjoy much success.
“Readability” charts are not new. Nearly 60 years ago both Rudolph Flesch and Robert Gunning devised simple ways to measure the difficulty level of [...]
Appreciating Our Rich And Beautiful Language
English: it’s the language of business, communication, aviation and the internet throughout the world. (OK, the French want their speakers to stop saying “e-mail” and have offered up “courriel” as a substitute. Stay tuned.) More than a billion people use it in some form every day, many of them exclusively. It constantly changes, adapting to [...]
Full StorySharpen Your Spelling!
We all have spellchecking in our word processing and e-mail programs. Websites, printed information, and phone locations abound. Even the person sitting next to us at work may have decent spelling skills, and doesn’t mind helping out once in a while. But that doesn’t excuse any business writer from making a commitment to sharpen spelling [...]
Full StoryHow The Best Business Writers Do It
The Harvard Business Review reported a study a few years ago. In a survey involving more than 1,200 CEOs from all across the country, the researchers collected writing samples and analyzed them, looking for similarities. The CEO group represented a wide variety of people, ages, locations, backgrounds, educations and organizations. The common link: corporate success.
The [...]
Business Writing’s “Seven Cs”
Ask these seven questions yourself. Is your writing…
CONVERSATIONAL? Good writing sounds like people talking with one another. Picture your reader as you write, and then write as if you were having a conversation with that person…perhaps as the two of you enjoyed a cup of coffee and discussed a topic of mutual interest. Read your [...]
Increase Your E-Mail Effectiveness
We spend an average of two hours a day at it, according to some studies. It’s by far the most common kind of writing in the workplace today.
Effortlessly, it sends messages across thousands of miles in less time than it takes to blink an eye. It has reconnected old friends and family with each other. [...]
Cut writing time by 30%!
The six-step writing process from Business Writing Solutions cuts the time needed to write by at least 30 percent. That translates into an immediate reduction in writing costs, and an increase in productivity. To find out how much you can save, use our interactive Writing Investment Worksheet.
About my client list…
If you have just come across this web site, you may be wondering “Who has scheduled Business Writing Solutions?”
Many organizations all across the country have done so. They have scheduled onsite programs, and most of them have brought it back, many of them on a regular basis. It’s easy to persuade (with sales and marketing skills and techniques) a client to schedule a program once.
But I only get invited back if they like what they hear: if people benefit, their writing improves, and they say, “Everyone should take this program!” That’s why I make my unconditional guarantee. If you’re not delighted with the program, and if it doesn’t exceed your expectations, you owe me nothing. I have never had to make good on that!
Here are a few of my ongoing, regular, clients: NASA Kennedy Space Center…Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General…FedEx Office…CenterPoint Energy…Kaiser Permanente…Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)…Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General…General Services Administration…National Institutes of Health…Ryan, Inc.,…Smithsonian Institution.
I would love to add your organization’s name to my list! By the way, if you schedule a program, you get me…not a trained substitute. Use the “Send Information” box in the upper right hand corner!
Client Success Stories!
Fortune 50 Financial Corporation: The director of a project involving a corporate culture restructuring (of an old, Midwest-based company) contacted us about offering Business Writing Solutions to the members of his team. These individuals came from all departments, and were working together to make written recommendations to corporate headquarters concerning a “new” culture for the organization.
These people were already overwhelmed with their work and way behind schedule, with deadlines for completed recommendations documents fast approaching. The all traveled to a central meeting spot, taking two of the remaining days out of their work time, for this class.
Using the ideas from Business Writing Solutions, the entire team completed and turned in its work on time. Later, the director who had brought me in wrote and said, “This was the best Time Management course I have ever taken. Your ideas have saved me more than 30 percent of the time I used to spend writing. I would recommend this class to anyone!”
