Doing the Business is a suite of e-learning courses that addresses three of the most critical communication skills required by today’s business professionals. Learn how to do the business when you’re presenting face-to-face in front of a group, when you have to make an impact with a major report or proposal, or when you’re reaching out through the web to communicate online.
SlideRules: Ten ways to avoid death by PowerPoint
Thirty million PowerPoint presentations are delivered each day. The majority are dull, repetitive and over-laden with text. They may be quick and easy to produce, but they just don’t work. Help is at hand. Excuse yourself from the next management meeting and, while your colleagues are subjected to more mind-numbing recitations of endless bullet points, spend a few hours instead discovering the Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint. You’ll learn how to develop visual aids that grab your audience’s attention and won’t let go; that help you to deliver your message with clarity and impact; that reflect just how professional you really are; and that get you the results your efforts deserve.
Discover the ten ways to avoid death by PowerPoint:
- If in doubt, don’t
- Know what you want to say
- Know your audience
- Make each slide a master
- Make text work for you
- Make numbers count
- Bring concepts to life
- Make the most of multimedia
- Go with the flow
- There are no rules
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WordWise: Ten ways to save a forest
Not many people would admit to getting excited when a report drops on their desk. It’s not that you don’t care what it contains; you just wish it would make its point more clearly and a whole lot more quickly. Too many reports are too lengthy, too dull, poorly structured and poorly presented. With WordWise, you’ll learn how to create reports, proposals and other formal documents that make your reader sit up and take notice, that reflect just how professional you are, and which dramatically improve your chances of achieving your objectives. WordWise helps you to make your point clearly and succinctly, to present your ideas with flair and to distribute your documents professionally in print or electronically.
Discover the ten ways to save a forest:
- Believe documents matter
- Write with a purpose
- Structure your ideas
- Putting pen to paper
- Design basics: the layout
- Design basics: the words
- Design basics: the pictures
- Getting it right
- Getting it out there
- Making it known
WebPower: Ten ways to survive in cyberspace
Every day seven million new documents are published on the web, on top of the 550 billion already there. For every printed word, 30,000 are published electronically. Quantity of content is not a problem; quality is. The essence of great publishing is to get the right content to the right person at the right time, and the web is still first and foremost a publishing medium. On the web, everyone’s a publisher and yet hardly anyone has had any training in how to do this effectively. Being effective means your content gets noticed, it meets the needs of your users and stimulates the response you’re after. WebPower provides you with the tools to create killer content, whether that’s for your organisation’s intranet or for almost any sort of internet web site.
Discover the ten ways to survive in cyberspace:
- Know the web
- Focus in on your targets
- Come to terms with content
- Design for users
- Write for the web
- Communicate with multimedia
- Generate traffic
- Interact with your users
- Push home your message
- Make content count
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View the courses: All three courses in the series can be previewed on Onlignment’s own virtual learning environment.
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Contact us to discuss how Doing the Business can be employed within your organisation, as e-learning courses or as part of a more extensive blended solution.
