Arosa workshops 2015

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Workshop Objectives

Using templates effectively for content and language editing.

Know how to record formal, informal and interactive Minutes.

Be familiar with how to run a meeting.

Identify efficiency issues over passive verbs, ghost verbs, excess baggage and sentence length.

Know how to use the 14 English punctuation marks.

Recognise your personal Style Stamp.

Modify samples of Minutes for content and language.

Become a more confident Minute-taker.

Agenda

9am

Getting to know you.

Minutes that work: templates.

Recording what’s needed: the content of Minutes.

10.30 – 10.45 Morning Break

Efficient Minute-taking

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10.45 – 11.30

The Minute-taker in the meeting: actions from pre to post.

Dealing with accents and low talkers.

11.30 – 12.30

Grammar fix: you know more than you think.

How to make your Minutes’ language more efficient: controlling passives, ghost verbs,

excess baggage, sentence length.

12.30 – 1.15 Lunch Break

1.15 – 2.15

How to use your Style Stamp to edit Minutes.

2.15 – 3.00

Perfecting punctuation: the ultimate key to a professional look.

3.00 – 3.10 Afternoon Break

3.10 – 4.00

Working on real samples

4.00 – 4.15

Minutes: are they just for the record?

How was your day?

Our workshops are very interactive and engaging.

You will not suffer ‘death by PowerPoint’.

You will not be ploughing through a traditional manual.

You will take away valuable worked samples.

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Workshop Objectives

Understand the differences between content and language editing.

Distinguish between fact, analysis, opinion.

Identify fact, analysis and opinion in personal and industry samples.

Use high reader impact theory to capture time-poor readers.

Identify efficiency issues over passive verbs, ghost verbs, excess baggage and sentence length.

Know how to use the 14 English punctuation marks.

Recognise your personal Style Stamp.

Modify your own and industry samples.

Measure your new efficiency results on one sample. Methods and Materials Using kinesthetic exercises, stimulus powerpoint, discussion, team and individual activities, our workshop is highly interactive. Our research shows that worldwide business, academic and government writing averages 35% inefficiency; writers write too much and generally edit poorly. We use colour coding to identify and amend what a writer says and how it is expressed. Low reader impact documents are in purple and high reader impact versions are in blue. In editing the language, we use two colours: blue and yellow. Blue means ‘chop’ and yellow means ‘change’. These two processes make up a writer’s Style Stamp and when identified, the writer can adjust the text for maximum efficiency.

Agenda

9.00 – 10.45

Getting to know you: discussion.

Making the case for efficiency: genre samples, evidence, research.

Efficient content: how to spot fact, analysis, opinion.

10.45 – 11.00 Morning Break

Efficient Business Writing

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11.00 – 12.00

How to achieve a High Reader Impact with:

executive summaries

reports

letters

emails.

12.00 – 12.30

Efficient Language 1: controlling passives, ghost verbs, excess baggage, sentence length:

team practical/theory with client and industry samples.

12.30 – 1.15 Lunch

1.15 – 3.00

Efficient Language 2: team practical/theory using client and industry samples.

Perfecting punctuation.

3.00 – 3.10 Afternoon Break

3.10 – 4.00

Editing practice and individual tuition with Style Stamp.

4.00 – 4.15

Assessing the day.

Your presenter will be Ron Denholm

Ron has trained more than 3000 business writers with tailored and tremendously engaging presentations in efficient business writing, report writing, Minute-taking and technical writing. His well-known High Reader Impact and Style Stamp editing aim to quickly make workshop participants more confident and compelling writers.

Ron also steered the 5500 Project on researching worldwide website readability and has published over 70 presentations and documents on writing efficiently.

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He taught Classics in secondary schools and worked for the Australian Federal Police, heading Learning and Development in Sydney. Here, he received a Commissioner’s Commendation for developing and running Ministerial Writing Workshops.

Ron also developed EssayAudit, a program that analyses thinking structures in documents. Ron has a BA and MA in Classics, a Diploma of Teaching and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.

What clients are saying about Ron ✐ I have been telling everyone I meet that your program is hands-down the best 8 hours spent in a classroom.

✐ Thank you for your illuminating course. As a teacher, I particularly enjoyed your humorous attitude, practical materials and flexibility.

✐ Thank you very much for the training. It combined good tips, extra knowledge and a sense of humour. That was great!

✐ Love the Style Stamp you did for me; it immediately improved my writing.

✐ Brilliant: short, varied examples make an excellent showcase. Thank you, Ron.

✐ The way you integrate slides and hands-on work is SO impressive.

✐ Tremendous online follow-up activities: the best I have seen.

✐ Ron was excellent, extremely professional and very personable.

✐ This was the best presented course I have ever attended.

✐ I feel absolutely more confident.

Ron has trained people from:

Audit Office (NSW)

Office of the Auditor General (WA)

Treasury (NSW)

Australian Federal Police

Office of State Revenue NSW

Sydney Water

Sydney Catchment Authority

NSW Department of Community Services

NSW Tourism

Aus Industry

Environmental Protection Agency (Vic)

ANZ Bank

Commonwealth Bank

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Crown Solicitor (NSW)

Corporate Protection Australia

St Vincent’s Hospital

Community Mental Health

Canberra Society of Editors

Drug and Alcohol Services

Mission Australia

Macquarie Credit Union

Pitcher Partners

Reliance Insurance

Roads and Traffic Authority NSW

Energy Australia

Sunrice

Link Services

Woolworths

Australian Group Insurances

Hills Shire Council

Hume Housing

TJS Services

Melbourne University

Northside Community Service

Seven Eleven

Bluescope Steel

Bluecare

UBT Accountants

The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Radiologists

Macquarie University

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