How to Write Clearly – Five Techniques for Avoiding Ambiguity
Overview
Learn the five keys to avoiding miscommunications with clients and coworkers.
During this session, you will discover five techniques for drafting clear emails and documentation. By applying these practical techniques, you will ensure that your clients and coworkers can fully understand your written communication, even when the content is complex.
Throughout this session, the instructor will display before-and-after examples that demonstrate the five techniques for writing clearly. When displaying each example, the instructor will allow you to assess why the writing is ambiguous before he reveals how to make it clearer.
Upon completing this program, you will be able to visualize your own writing from the perspective of your readers. Adopting this empathetic mindset will enable you to spot ambiguity in your drafts and make the necessary revisions.
The Result:
As a result of your ability to communicate clearly, your clients and coworkers will be more likely to approve of your ideas.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Explain sophisticated concepts using simple language.
- Identify misplaced modifiers and ambiguous references.
- Decide when to repeat a term versus when to use a synonym.
- Determine when to use (or avoid) the word “and”.
- Draft emails and documents that are easy to read — even for non-experts.
Suited to:
This session is intended for professionals who communicate about technical subjects in written formats.
You will also be provided with:
- Access to watch the Live Webinar
- Opportunities to ask real time questions to the presenter/s
- Poll questions to test your knowledge
- Access to On Demand recording, which can be viewed multiple times, for as long as required
- Presenters contact details for follow up questions
- CPD Quiz (for On Demand recordings)
- CPD Certificate
- CPD Report – Logged automatically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
Your presenter
Ryan Standil,Write to Excite
Owner, Write to Excite
Ryan leads seminars about effective written communication. He is a regular speaker at accounting firms, law firms, corporations, and governmental agencies.
Ryan attended Western University, in Canada, where he graduated from the Ivey Business School and the Faculty of Law. After graduating, Ryan worked at a law firm in Toronto, focusing on corporate and commercial matters.
Today Ryan owns and operates a seminar company, called Write To Excite. His mission is to help professionals grow their income by improving their writing. Ryan is a frequent contributor to the leading newspaper in Canada, The Globe and Mail.