Business Writing for Results

POST-SEMINAR ACTIVITY

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Thank You for Attending!Thanks for joining Pryor Learning Solutions at “Business Writing for Results” seminar! These Post-Seminar Worksheets will help you apply the lessons from your seminar to your daily work.

Action Plan

List three activities or actions you plan to take to regularly implement to apply lessons from this training:

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Applications and Tips: Reviewing the PRODUCE Model In the seminar, you learned about the PRODUCE model. The elements of PRODUCE are summarized in the form of application tips below.

Plan Develop a plan for approaching your writing work

Research Gather information and facts to support your writing

Organize Organize your writing using clustering, a pyramid, or flowchart approaches

Draft Create a rough draft with the information you have

Uncover Identify missing pieces that your reader needs

Clarify Revise your write to be clear to your reader

Edit Proofread and revise your work for clarity

Clustering (Connected Ideas)

Chaining (Word Chains)

Pyramid (Hierarchy)

Flow Chart (Linear Sequence)

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Lunch and Learn: Writing Practice

Here’s an outline for a one-hour “Lunch and Learn” workshop with your team. The goal is to facilitate a learning session focused on writing. For a group of individual contributors, have each person bring their own examples to work on during the session. For a team, focus your work on a project that you all have in common (e.g., a large report, or a standard template letter that all members should use).

Time Discussion Points

10 min

Overview Share purpose of “Lunch and Learn” Review the PRODUCE Model with the Group Describe the Team-Level Project (If applicable)

20 min

Audience, Purpose, Messages Identify the Writing Project’s Audience Develop Purpose Statements (For individual or team project(s)) For Each Purpose, Develop Key Messages

20 min

Organize Writing Describe the Three Organizational Structures: Clustering, Chaining, Hierarchy, and/or Workflow Individual Practice: Organizing Writing Using One Structure Share and Compare: Have Participants Compare Organizational Strategies

10 minAction Planning and Closing Participant Sharing: Key Insights from Workshop Develop Action Plans/Next Steps for Writing Project(s)

Application Tips: Writing for Results Apply what you learned in this seminar with the following tips:

Check salutations for appropriateness and accuracy

Organize your documents for visual appeal (white space, bullets, formatting)

Assist your readers with specific information

Use strong verbs and action language

Use positive words whenever possible

Keep sentences short

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