Advanced Grammar from A–Z

Do poor grammar skills make your staff appear unprofessional—or worse yet—incompetent to colleagues and customers? Do you ever wish they had the grammatical expertise to consistently write business documents with confidence and success?

In this popular half-day session, participants learn how to avoid the 26 most common grammatical mistakes—from A to Z—that hamper communication and ultimately hurt their credibility. Following is a sampling of the points of grammar they will learn from A–Z:

1. A is for abbreviation: Do you know the difference between et al., etc., e.g., i.e.?
2. B is for bullet: When and how do you use bullets correctly and effectively?
3. C is for comma: Do you ever feel like you randomly—and without confidence—sprinkle and scatter commas throughout your document? Do you always put a comma after every “and,” or is there a method to the madness?
4. D is for danglers: What are they and why do they matter in business writing?
5. M is for me/myself: Which usage is correct? The boss decided to give John and me/myself a huge raise.
6. S is for superstitions: We’ll dismiss the big five that can liberate you from your well intentioned high school English teacher’s advice.
7. V is for vogue words: Here’s the bottom line—we want to proactively dialogue to create the cutting edge synergy and the ultimate win-win situation to empower you.

Pre-work: Have your staff bring their most pressing grammar question to class. If it’s not covered in the program, we’ll take it off-line.