Write For Work: 3 Steps to Faster, Clearer and Better Communications (Micro)
(Micro 60-Minute Workshop)
Micro-Workshop Description
Welcome to the first five-generation workplace. A workplace where no two generations write in the same style. Where 30% of your team members learned English as their second language. Where even the platform of choice – phone/email/texting/Zoom/Slack – is different for everyone. Where senior management demands “proper” English…whatever that is. How do you make sure your writing is clear and correct for everyone?
We’ll give you the tools, the tips and the techniques to sharpen your writing. If you’re using an AI co-pilot, we’ll also give you some prompt exercises as well. This Micro-Workshop is a boot camp to deliver maximum benefit in a minimum amount of time. How much value can you get? As much as you’re willing to work. If you choose to participate, there is a small amount (no more than ten minutes) of preparation you need to do beforehand. You’ll see the results in all of your writing. Immediately.
Target Audience
As the new rules of messaging continue to evolve and new writing software becomes available, everyone in your marketing group — from the actual writers to your marketers, strategists, and senior management — needs to understand how to speak to each of your stakeholders in the best possible way.
Micro-Workshop Benefits
This 60-minute workshop is designed to:
- Improve your writing skills
- Focus your messaging
- Increase your marketing effectiveness
- Deliver applicable writing tools right away
For those who want to dig deeper on this topic, a companion Half Day training can be brought in-house using your member benefit. Email training@ana.net for details.
Pre-Workshop Preparation
At least one day before the workshop, find something you have done or are currently working on. It should be at least two paragraphs long and can be anything you wrote or have written, such as:
- Team email
- Status update (on any platform)
- Press release
- Annual report
- User manual
- Blog post
- Newsletter (internal or customer-focused)
- Customer mailing
- Have that document open on your desktop in your preferred format (Google Docs, MS Word, etc.)
Download the full agenda here
Faculty:
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Steve Lance
Author and Emmy Award-winner Steve Lance is a partner at PS Insights. His background as a copywriter and creative director includes a full range of advertising campaigns for such clients as SONY Entertainment, Crest Toothpaste, Citizen Watch, J&B Scotch, JIF Peanut Butter, Post Cereals, Verizon, Bell Atlantic, and Hyperion Solutions. He has been creative director of NBC and executive copywriter for numerous cable television networks including The Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Communications, History Channel, National Geographic, and PBS.
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