Welcome to the Future of Business Communication
Elevate Your Team's Writing Skills with
CPS HR Consulting x High-Value Writing Partnership
We’re proud to partner with High-Value Writing to bring you expert-led courses designed to elevate your writing skills. Whether you’re looking to craft clear, compelling messages or sharpen your professional communication, High-Value Writing offers practical strategies that deliver results.
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Business Writing Fundamentals
Business Writing has different demands and expectations, compared with the writing you may have done for school. Learn to shine in your career by writing clear, actionable, professional emails and documents.
Professional success depends on clear, thoughtful communication. You can use your Business Writing to both inform and connect with your readers. Your readers will appreciate writing that's clear, concise, respectful.
This course will help you put your best foot forward professionally, and develop strong relationships with your readers. This self-paced course includes strategies, examples, and practice opportunities.
- Adapt your writing to different situations
- Understand the differences between academic and business writing expectations
- Consider your reader’s needs, values, constraints, and preferences
- Apply practical strategies to make your writing more clear and concise
- Begin your message with a clear main point
- Write intentionally for your readers and to meet goals
- Write actionably to support your readers and meet business outcomes
Clear and Concise Writing
Get your message out there clearly and concisely, and feel good about your writing in the process Learn to craft concise, targeted messages that provide your readers what they want and need —without overloading them with words.
Concise writing helps prevent confusion and misinterpretation too. This course will show you three strategies for writing in a way that's naturally concise from the start. That means less editing time as well.
- Recognize the causes of wordiness in our writing
- Provide meaning to your readers quickly and easily
- Use a naturally concise sentence structure
- Avoid words and sentence structures that cause wordiness
- Choose verbs that increase concision and reduce wordiness
- Manage tone and concision simultaneously
Effective Emailing
In today's remote work landscape, leaders and teams use email more than ever. You may email with people you'll never meet in person; this means your relationships depend on your writing.
This course will help you clarify your point, give your reader action items, and spend less time writing and editing emails overall. This self-paced course includes strategies, examples, and practice opportunities.
- Recognize and respond to reader needs
- Provide your reader with a clear main point
- Provide a Call to Action to help your reader follow up
- Use a strategic subject line that increases reader comprehension
- Use the email heading functions with purpose
Strategic Writing for Leaders
As a leader, your writing both represents you and helps you set an example. By using clear, concise writing strategically, you can positively impact not only business outcomes, but teamwork and professional relationships. The words you use with your team can also impact their engagement and performance. Writing strategically helps you use intentional writing as a management tool—to inspire, coach, direct, and provide actionable feedback.
Intentional, strategic writing can help leaders project and inspire confidence, manage conflict productively, and boost team motivation and engagement. Similarly, leaders can use intentional language to convey respect, set examples for the team, include others, and build community. This course also highlights ways choices leaders make in their writing can impact morale, retention, and team wellness. Participants get strategies for crafting messages that meet the needs of today’s readers while also building trust and conveying respect.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the two sides of meaning and interpretation
- Use language strategically—to meet business outcomes and build professional relationships
- Write for today’s readers
- Build trust, respect, and team community through intentional writing
- Manage conflict and employee concerns through intentional writing
- Project confidence and build authority through writing
- Provide actionable and respectful written feedback, direction, and redirection
- Inspire confidence and action in others
Writing Performance Reviews
Make the performance review process truly useful and applicable by using language that helps employees grow. Writing reviews takes time, but the best reviews are simultaneously concise while actionable. Provide your direct reports with clear, actionable critiques and steps forward. Learn a writing formula to ease the writing process and ensure you provide practical advice. This course will help you write reviews that are objective, evidence based, and motivating.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the two sides of written meaning: informational and emotional
- Write review statements that offer tangible, actionable ways forward
- Write review statements that motivate the reader to reflect and grow
- Reduce time spent writing reviews by applying a writing formula
- Use concise, actionable language
- Provide correction without demotivating
- Use objective, evidence-based language in your performance reviews
Writing Policies and Procedures
Writing clear, effective policies and procedures is a skill—and one your organization will thank you for. In this course, you’ll learn how to write for today’s readers, how to structure each document, and how to use plain, active language your readers can follow.
Learning Objectives
- Distinguish between a policy and a procedure and explain when each is needed.
- Apply plain language techniques to write in a clear, active, and consistent style.
- Structure a policy using common content elements, reader-friendly design, and role-specific sections.
- Develop step-by-step procedures that are clear and easy to follow.
- Evaluate and revise real examples of policies and procedures to improve clarity and
usability
About Your Instructor
Her book, High-Value Writing: Real Strategies for Real-World Writing, shares her classroom curriculum and offers examples. Erin has been teaching writing in professional and academic settings for over 25 years.
Testimonials
"Her sessions keep everyone engaged the whole time and receive raving reviews."
"Erin's approach in teaching business writing in relevant, practical, and meaningful to our employees."
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