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“The one easy way to become worth 50 percent more than you are now — at least — is to hone your communication skills, both written and verbal.”
Warren Buffett

How much could you be worth?

Writing for Results Online is our premium course, designed for people who are committed to long term success and who recognise how critical good communication skills are.

Delivered at a pace that allows you to absorb every lesson fully, Writing for Results Online builds on our foundation one-day course, which we’ve now led for over 10 years to around 1500 people. Expanding on and deepending the material in that course, while also introducing new, advanced concepts, allows you to develop your skills through a combination of engaging webinars and highly personalised one-on-one coaching, 
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Online training means:
  • One on one coaching that’s customised to you
  • One on one coaching that allows you to discuss sensitive or confidential material in a private and secure setting
  • More in-depth work and discussion of each aspect of the training
  • More support
  • Time to practice and get feedback on the skills you’re developing
  • A peer mentoring network that lets you work with other participants (optional and also recommended)
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4 reasons for choosing Writing for Results Online

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Your writing really matters but you're getting pushback from senior executives or board members.
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Writing is taking you too long, burning up valuable time you could use for other pressing things.
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Great written communication skills would be a serious advantage for your long term career.
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How it works
Writing for Results Online is delivered by a combination of webinar and one-on-one coaching sessions.

Each webinar is delivered by an expert who will cover one aspect of good writing. The schedule follows a progressive sequence that culminates in you becoming an accomplished, assured and highly effective writer.

Each webinar is accompanied by a study paper that recreates and expands on the material in the webinar.

One-on-one coaching is also with an expert who you’ll be assigned at the start of your course. They will empower you in putting the webinar training into practice in your own setting. Your coach will answer all your questions and work with you to identify – and deliver – specific coaching that will make the biggest difference to you. 

In this course you'll get the tools to tackle:
  • lost time through slow writing
  • writing that's not as effective as it could be
  • uncertainty about how to improve a piece of writing
  • and much, much more. 

Sound familiar? 

Download your free copy of The 7 Deadly Writing Sins here.


Course designer: Ken Grace

Writing for Results is the brainchild of award-winning ex-editor turned writing trainer Ken Grace. With a decade of successfully training thousands of people from business and government throughout Australasia, he knows how to help businesses get results. 

Writing for Results Online answers two pressing needs. One, it offers training that cannot be interrupted by Covid-related lockdowns. Two, it offers in-depth training for those who are committed to not just improving their writing, but becoming as good as they can possibly be.

Get more information on Writing for Results Online.
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Ken Grace, creator of Writing for Results and author of "The 7 Deadly Writing Sins".

Also included

  • A 24-hour online help/chat tool with responses guaranteed within 24 hours.
  • Free access to our proprietary Edit This app. Subscribers receive a short piece of flawed writing each day which they are invited to edit. When they submit their work, our edited version is sent to them, so they can compare their work to ours.
  • A certificate of completion at the end of the programme.

Syllabus

Course dates (NZ time)​

Sessions are spaced two weeks apart, with alternating webinars and one-on-one coaching. In other words, in any given four week period you’ll have one webinar and one one-on-one coaching session.
  1. Personal coaching
  2. Goodbye, writer’s block
  3. Personal coaching
  4. Who’s your reader?
  5. Personal coaching
  6. What’s your argument?
  7. Personal coaching
  8. Writing badly (yes, it’s a good thing)
  9. Personal coaching
  10. The most powerful editing tool of all
  11. Personal coaching
  12. Keeping it simple
  13. Personal coaching
  14. Why it’s dumb to try to sound smart
  15. Personal coaching
  16. Zombie nouns (they’ll suck the life out of you)
  17. Personal coaching
  18. Writing effective emails
  19. Personal (1 on 1) coaching
  20. Writing difficult letters/emails
  21. Personal coaching
  22. What you need to know about grammar (and things you think are so that are not)
  23. Personal coaching
  24. How to be your own proofreader
  25. Personal coaching
  26. Troublesome words
You will agree your bi-weekly coaching session day and time with your coach. We will respect your geographic time zone with our coaching options.

We offer two webinar options. You are welcome to attend either webinar (or even both) each week.
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You can convert the NZ times below to your local time here.
 
Week commencing April 12
Seminar days and times
Tuesday 10am
Thursday 8am
 
Week commencing June 14
Seminar days and times
Tuesday 10am
Thursday 8am
 
Week commencing August 9
Seminar days and times
Tuesday 10am
Thursday 8am
 
Week commencing October 11
Seminar days and times
Tuesday 10am
Thursday 8am



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