Writing Seminars for Audit and Investigation Professionals

Stop Crimes Against Clarity! Business Communication Essentials
8 hours

We’ve all received emails that bore or confuse us from the first line but most of us are also guilty of pressing send too soon. This one-day workshop gives you the essential skills to craft clear persuasive emails, memos, letters, and short reports that build better relationships. Specifically we’ll look at how to

Your clients and colleagues will thank you. (This workshop can be customized to your particular office’s culture.)

Stop Crimes Against Clarity! Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 
8 hours

Writing problems are often thinking problems but a lot of us don’t know how to think about our thinking and improve it. Critical thinking is the ability to construct and defend an argument using reason, applying intellectual standards of responsibility, and recognizing and countering logical fallacies as we see them in others and ourselves. It’s finding the best answer when there isn’t a single answer to a problem. This one-day session focuses on how to
 
Grammar First Aid 
4 hours

Grammatical errors can undermine the authority of your message and create doubts, if not scorn, in your reader. If the thought of grammar makes you feel queasy with uncertainty, this lively half-day workshop is for you. It’s not too late to learn
 

Getting Creative: Using Images in Corporate Story Telling 
4 hours

The best writers make stories come alive for us with vivid images and a unique personal voice. They have the courage to write from personal experience and apply it to business or political contexts. By tapping into your own lived experience, you too can generate powerful and persuasive narratives. After this half-day workshop you’ll be:
 
Whether you plan to proceed to that great memoir you’ve been promising yourself or you want your case descriptions to be more vivid, images can transform how people relate to your work.