Some of your employees may already know how to write well. Others may need more practice. Regardless of skill level, all employees can benefit from this training session.
Business Writing Skills Quiz
Here are the answers to yesterday’s quiz:
- Good business writing should be clear, concise, correct, complete, and coherent.
- False. Passive voice makes sentences weak and indefinite.
- True. It is unprofessional, and besides, the reader may not understand what you mean.
- The three elements of the three-point format are the opening, the body, and the closing.
- True. The topic sentence tells the reader what the paragraph is about. The supporting sentences elaborate on the topic.
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- Steps to writing better business communications include defining your reason for writing, preparing your material, making an outline, writing a first draft, and revising your draft before you send out any document.
- True. Transitional words and phrases form a bridge between paragraphs and guide the reader smoothly from one thought to another.
- Using positive language inspires readers to agree with you and makes you sound confident about what you are saying.
- True. Using all short sentences makes your writing sound choppy. On the other hand, using all long sentences bogs down your reader.
- You should always try to link concepts to examples.
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The material in today’s Advisor is adapted from the “Business Writing Skills for Employees” course, which is part of TrainingToday’s new library, Communicating Effectively at Work. This great new resource contains 17 titles—3 for employees; 5 for supervisors; and the rest for either supervisors or employees.
But what is TrainingToday? Read on to discover the power of this online training tool.
Good news from BLR—now you can run your training program like a pro, with our new TrainingToday system.
TrainingToday is a leading provider of online education programs for employees and supervisors. Each course in our extensive library addresses a specific topic with engaging and interactive presentations, delivering practical advice and clear instructions that trainees will remember long after the training is complete.
Three Delivery Platforms
TrainingToday offers you the option of three delivery platforms to meet your organization’s needs:
Professional
- Unlimited training for your whole organization for one flat fee
- Easy to start up and track trainee progress
- Hundreds of courses available, from employment law compliance to sales excellence
Enterprise
The Enterprise includes all the features of the Professional version plus:
- Track and report capability with built-in comprehensive Learning Management System
- Train with courses as they are, or make them truly your own with our customization options
- Upload your own content (PowerPoint, video, SCORM files, etc.) to the LMS in addition to using our comprehensive training courses
SCORM
- Integrate content into your existing LMS
- Easy to tailor to your content, logo, presentation style, and corporate policies
- SCORM-compliant to integrate with existing corporate learning systems
Here are just some of the many courses available at TrainingToday:
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Over 75 HR and employment training courses covering such topics as Sexual Harassment, Diversity, and the ADA.
The Diversity library is an interactive training program with different modules for supervisors and employees. It features real-world scenarios and insightful commentary from a leading workplace expert and employment law attorney.
Preventing Sexual Harassment—National—NEW!
Until now, training has been a real challenge—there’s such a load of extraneous planning, preparing, and tracking involved. But we’ve got good news—BLR’s editors have developed a unique new program that’s done all that work for you.
It’s called TrainingToday. This turnkey service requires no setup, no course development time, no software installation, and no new hardware. Your employees can self-register, and training can be taken anytime (24/7), anywhere there is a PC and an Internet connection. Courses take only about 30 minutes to complete.
TrainingToday automatically documents training. As trainees sign on, their identifications are automatically registered. When the program is completed, the trainee’s score is entered. So, when you want to see who has been trained on any subject, or look at the across-the-board activity of any one employee, it’s all there, instantly available to you, your boss, an inspector—even a plaintiff’s attorney.
Course certificates can be automatically generated from within the training center and are automatically retained for recordkeeping purposes.
Unlimited Training That Won’t Bust the Budget
Best of all, in these budget-crunching times, TrainingToday costs only a fraction of what you would pay for a learning management system (LMS). You always know exactly what training will cost, no matter how many programs you use or how many times you use them. There’s just one low annual fee—for unlimited training—calculated by the size of your workforce. Budget once and you’re done!
These are all motivational, actionable courses—for both employees and supervisors—in such key areas as sexual harassment, FMLA, diversity, communication, USERRA, recruiting, and many more. The courses are kept up to date to reflect federal and state regulatory changes and, what’s more, BLR adds new programs continually.
TrainingToday also includes a selection of safety courses—you decide whether you want just the HR courses, the safety courses, or both HR and safety.
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