The Gail Tycer Company: Workshops and Seminars

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Highly interactive, solid-content sessions that produce the sound ideas and practical, workable answers your people can use now. Each program is based on years of working with people who want to improve their writing and speaking skills--people with needs similar to those of your staff--and participants work on their own materials in class. Each Gail Tycer workshop can also be adapted to meet specific needs, and to solve specific problems within your organization.

Where appropriate, we will work with you to assess your training needs, and to develop a proprietary training program for you. "Train the trainer" services are also available.

Our "most asked for" workshops include:

Effective Written Communication
Strategic Business Writing
Business Writing Basics
Writing the Performance Appraisal
Technical Writing for Non-Technical Readers
Clearer Technical Writing
Writing Promotional Materials That Get Results!
Marketing in the Public Sector
Powerful Professional Presentations

Proprietary Training Developed for Your Organization
Executive or Small Group Sessions

What comes with a Gail Tycer Communication Workshop
Why Gail Tycer's Workshops are repeat favorites
6 ways to get the benefits of this information

1. Effective Written Communication

Write faster, clearer, easier -- more confidently! Gail Tycer's proven techniques show you how to write less -- and say more: a practical, common-sense approach to writing fast, clear, correct, and effective emails, letters, memos, proposals, reports, and instructions. Here's how to take the least time and the fewest words to say what you mean -- and get results! To Get Started...

2. Strategic Business Writing

Powerful new techniques to give your writing the competitive edge in today's rapidly-changing business environment. Learn the simple secrets that make people want to read what you've written; want to do what you're asking them to do. You'll learn which words to use to get the results you want. How to use fewer words -- precisely the right words -- to make your writing clearer -- more interesting, more compelling. And you'll learn how to cut your writing time in half -- before you begin! To Get Started...

3. Business Writing Basics

Build confidence fast with a quick brushup. Avoid the most common problems. Grammar. Spelling. Punctuation. Usage. Taught from a professional writer's point of view, this painless workshop will help you to understand, and to use the language correctly. To Get Started...

4. Writing the Performance Appraisal

Participants will learn how to plan, write, and review the performance appraisal. What steps to take to make the process faster, easier. What elements must be included. The words and phrases to use -- and the ones not to use. How to avoid the most frequent errors. Where appropriate, participants will work on their own materials during this workshop, and exercises will be based on your materials and philosophy. To Get Started...

5. Technical Writing for Non-Technical Readers

This workshop is designed to help your writers communicate technical information clearly, correctly, effectively, and sometimes persuasively, to the non-technical reader. Participants will gain confidence as they learn specific techniques for getting started quickly, easily. Communicating with various audiences using the most effective tone and approach for each reader. Cutting writing time. Enhancing their credibility. Developing writing skills for consistent, predictable results. This highly-interactive workshop will be tailored to participants’ needs to provide a practical, common-sense approach to writing. Where possible, participants will work on their own materials in class. To Get Started...

6. Clearer Technical Writing

Tailored to the needs, process and form of your specific organization, this workshop is designed for people who write technical materials -- reports, manuals, instructions, and proposals for technical readers. Skills learned are also applicable to memos, letters, and informal reports. Emphasis is on tighter, clearer writing. To Get Started...

7. Writing Promotional Materials That Get Results!

Write powerful marketing materials step-by-step. Here's how to write results-oriented, cost-effective marketing and promotional literature: brochures, flyers, catalogs, publicity, and advertising; how to write materials for the internet. BONUS: Learn how to turn every proposal, letter, memo, and email into a practical, cost-effective, exceptionally powerful marketing tool. To Get Started...

8. Marketing in the Public Sector

Participants will draft their own campaigns during this session, which has been designed specifically to address the unique internal and external issues found in the public sector today. Participants will learn and practice step-by-step techniques and tactics to tell their stories powerfully, convincingly, in constituent-friendly terms. To Get Started...

9. Powerful Professional Presentations

From boardroom to the platform, this practical workshop will show you how to overcome your stage fright; develop a clear message; make your point effectively; come across as a knowledgeable professional; and be more persuasive, more effective. To Get Started...

Workshops are available in half-day, full day, or longer sessions, and can be tailored for the specific needs of your organization. We also offer one-on-one coaching.

All Gail Tycer programs focus on results.

Gail Tycer Communication workshops provide a practical, easy-to-learn, common-sense approach that encourages your staff to continue using their new skills - skills we reinforce in five ways:

A participant may submit written material for evaluation and suggestions within the year following his or her participation in the program, at no additional charge.
Participants learn coaching skills so they are able to evaluate and reinforce each other's new writing techniques.
Participants receive a substantial course handbook to help keep skills sharp, long after the workshop is over.
In addition, participants are encouraged to "anchor" what they have learned, following the session, and
May request Gail's bi-monthly Business Writing Zone Tips - a short email paragraph linked to the more complete discussion

To be sure we are right on track with your workshop content, we also include a pre-program consulting session at your company. We'll discuss your specific needs and concerns, and review basic class principles with one or more of your executives so they can support employees' new writing skills effectively.

Other workshops are available on request, and new programs can be developed for you. We can work with you to clarify specific communication issues, and to recommend workable solutions. If training is a part of the solution, we will work with you to design an appropriate company-specific communication program; to develop your own company materials; to test the program; and to train your trainers to instruct the material. Or we can continue to provide the training, if you prefer. To Get Started...

You will actually work on your own materials in every Gail Tycer workshop. You will take with you the class handbook, containing how-to-do-it tools, guidelines, worksheets, formats, and examples to use immediately, and to keep your new skills fresh.

"Your direct and often humorous approach got people involved...an enjoyable learning experience with immediate applications." Insurance Company Vice President

"The most interesting, informative, inspirational, stimulating, provocative...session I have ever attended. The unexpected bonus - it was fun!" Advertising Agency Executive

"I will be using her materials immediately - this was worth the price of admission!" Corporate Manager

"As a writing instructor, I am a tough audience. She was great! Very audience-oriented and clear, with workable material." Writing Coach, Executive