Write It So They Read It: Technical Writing for Subject Matter Experts

On-Demand Schedule

Fri, December 27, 2024 - Fri, January 03, 2025

Duration

60  Mins

Level

Basic & Advanced

Webinar ID

IQW23J1060

Write It So They Read It:

Technical Writing for Subject Matter Experts

During this highly interactive technical writing class, participants will learn and practice preparing technical documentation in a reader-focused error-free manner, including:

  • A proven technique for writing crystal-clear reports, including good and bad examples
  • How to describe a complicated subject in clear and concise terms
  • What to do when you can’t avoid using technical jargon
  • How to eliminate clichés, wasted words, and “smothered verbs” in technical writing
  • AUDIENCE FAVORITE: The five new guidelines for using bulleted lists in your message
  • Language guidelines for better receptivity such as non-inflammatory language, gender-neutral references, and attention to tone
  • How to distinguish among the prewriting, writing, and rewriting phases for reports and projects
  • How to make sure technical documents with your firm’s name and seal on them are absolutely error free

Overview of the webinar

Certified Speaking Professional Mandi Stanley began her technical writing career as proposal writing specialist for a healthcare firm. She’s a summa cum laude graduate with concentrations in English, communication, and management, and she served as a faculty member of the American Management Association where she wrote and developed the methodology, learning guide, leaders’ guide, workbook, and visual aids for the one-day seminar How To Write User Manuals: A Technical Writing Workshop. 

Who should attend?

  • Human resources professionals
  • Engineers
  • Knowledge Professionals
  • SMEs
  • Administrative Professionals
  • Employees being asked to do more writing on the job than expected
  • Training Specialists
  • Learning and Development Specialists

Why should you attend?

Finding the time to write your organization’s technical reports, procedures, instructional guides, project updates, and even email can be a challenge. Getting employees to actually read and pay attention to them is even more of one. In addition, any technical document bearing your organization’s name must be absolutely error free. Even a careless mistake in an email can damage a leader’s reputation and can make an entire work group look bad. The secret to a workday writer’s success is segmenting the prewriting, writing, and rewriting phases to produce shorter, clearer, more meaningful documents. Participants really can learn to “Write It So They Read It,” even with technical documentation.

Faculty - Ms.Mandi Stanley

With more than 29 year's experience on the seminar circuit, Certified Speaking Professional Mandi Stanley works primarily with business leaders who want to boost their professional image and with people who want to be better speakers and writers. She has traveled throughout North America entertaining and educating more than 45,000 seminar participants, totaling more than 5,000 platform hours.
In 2003, Mandi was designated a CSP, Certified Speaking Professional. Fewer than 9 percent of all worldwide speakers have earned this designation, and Mandi is the first Mississippian in history to receive this honor through the National Speakers Association.
She’s a summa cum laude graduate with concentrations in English, communication, and management, and served as a faculty member of AMAI, where she wrote and developed their one-day seminar How To Be a Better Proofreader. Mandi is the award-winning author of The No-Panic Plan for Presenters, which was named a Finalist in the Career category at the Independent Book Publishers Awards in New York.
 

Credits

ComplianceIQ is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for [1] PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Please make note of the activity ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org

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