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• Achieving the Competitive Edge with Excellent Customer Service
• Building High Performance Teams Through Effective Communication
• Business Etiquette for the Professional
• Coaching, Mentoring, and Empowerment Skills
• Conflict Management: Keeping Your Cool When Others Don't
• Creative Problem Solving
• Delivering Winning Presentations with Confidence and Power
• Grammar Made Easy
• How to Become an Effective Communicator
• How to be an Assertive Manager/Supervisor
• How to be an Effective Supervisor and Get Results
• How to Deal with Change in the Workplace
• How to Sharpen Your Business Writing Skills
• Improving Workplace Attitudes
• Keys to Career Success-Knowing What is Expected of You in Any Job
• Managing Your Time to Achieve Your Objectives
• Mastering the Fine Art of Successful Selling
• Strengthening Workplace Relationships
• Using Positive Thinking and Self-Esteem to Improve Performance

Grammar Made Easy

Benefits received from this training:

At the conclusion of this training, you will be able to . . .

• Learn the 3 types of sentences, and discover how you can use each to express virtually any concept or idea clearly.
• Understand the 8 "must know" parts of speech and avoid embarrassing mistakes in word usage.
• Learn the difference between phrases and clauses and how misuse leads to clumsiness in writing and speech.
• Learn about active and passive voice: find out how it makes language fall flat or get attention.
• Learn how to judge the right punctuation for the situation, without overloading your language.
• Enhance your language with foolproof guidelines for these often misused punctuation marks: commas, semi-colons, and colons.
• Learn the basic rules for capitalization that help you give importance and emphasis to key words.
• Discover the "grammar goofs" that muddle and confuse your message with tips on how to avoid them.
• Receive down-to-earth pointers for letter, memos, email, and other business correspondence.
• Learn all the above and much more without memorizing countless complicated definitions and rules; just a few simple guidelines that will cover most of the things you need to know in proper grammar and usage!

Additional benefits and objectives can be identified and designed to fit the needs of each client.

Training Curriculum:

1. Pre-Test and a History of Our Language.
   1. The basics:
   2. Three types of sentences:
      1. Simple sentences.
      2. Compound sentences.
      3. Complex sentences.
      4. The 8 parts of speech.
      5. The importance of verb tenses.
   3. How to write effective sentences.
      1. Average sentence and paragraph lengths.
      2. Active vs. passive sentences.
2. Conquering the Punctuation Challenge.
   1. The period.
   2. The comma.
   3. The semicolon.
   4. The ellipsis.
   5. The hyphen.
   6. The parenthesis.
   7. The dash.
   8. The brackets.
   9. The quotation marks.
   10. The question mark.
   11. The exclamation mark.
   12. The apostrophe.
3. Overcoming some common errors.
   1. Double negatives.
   2. The problem with I and Me.
   3. The problem with Like and As.
   4. The problem with pronouns not agreeing with their antecedents.
   5. The problem of double comparisons.
   6. The problem of unnecessary prepositions.
   7. The problem of unparalleled sentences.
   8. The problem with And and Try.
   9. The problem with Could Of and Could Have.
   10. The problem with Different Than.
4. Eight Guidelines for Capitalization.
5. Some Old Rules no Longer Needed in Business Writing.
   1. Ending sentences with prepositions.
   2. Beginning sentences with "and," "so," "I," "however," etc.
   3. Splitting infinitives.
   4. Using contractions.
   5. A word of caution!
6. Practice session.
7. Questions/Difficult Issues/ Evaluations/Learning Transfers

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