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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:

  1. Effective Business Writing

  2. Effective Email

  3. Strategic Business Writing

  4. Business Writing Basics

  5. Promotional Writing

  6. Technical Writing for Non-Technical Readers and Decision Makers

  7. Powerful Professional Presentations

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1. Effective Business Writing

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. Effective Email

Write clear, concise emails that get right to the point and say what you mean to get the job done faster, with fewer messages. Avoid embarrassment, giving offense, or creating confusion. Get started quickly and easily with a simple formula that helps the reader "get it" at a glance. Build your personal credibility; reinforce your professionalism. Develop practical techniques to fine-tune your writing skills; use common-sense techniques for confidentiality and safety. Discover the writing tools already built into your computer. Enhance your email's effectiveness, and get results! To Get Started...

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. Technical Writing for Non-Technical Readers and Decision Makers

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...

7. 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...
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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.

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What comes with a Gail Tycer Workshop

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:

  1. 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.

  2. Participants learn coaching skills so they are able to evaluate and reinforce each other's new writing techniques.

  3. Participants receive a substantial course handbook to help keep skills sharp, long after the workshop is over.

  4. In addition, participants are encouraged to "anchor" what they have learned, following the session, and

  5. 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.

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Why Gail Tycer's workshops are repeat favorites:

"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

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6 ways to get the benefits of this information for your organization:
  1. Bring a Gail Tycer Workshop to your company.
    Before the workshop, Gail provides complimentary consulting to assure the success of her time with your people. Afterwards, she becomes their personal writing coach, providing suggestions and counsel. For further reinforcement of the learning, participants learn coaching skills so they can help each other reinforce their new skills. Participants will receive a substantial reference handbook.

  2. Work with Gail to develop an organization-specific program for your people.

  3. Invite Gail Tycer to consult with your organization.

  4. Send individuals to Gail Tycer for one-on-one coaching.

  5. Send selected staff to a Gail Tycer Executive Session.

  6. Recommend Gail Tycer to speak at meetings and conventions your people will attend.
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