Business Writing for HR Professionals
Learn five writing techniques HR professionals can use to draft clear emails and documents, avoid misunderstandings and explain new initiatives simply.
Speaker
Ryan Standil
Business and legal writing instructor · Write To Excite · JD, Western University
Overview
Business writing is a core skill for HR professionals, since most workplace communication now happens in writing. This 75-minute workshop covers five techniques for drafting clear, persuasive emails and documents that prevent misunderstandings and win readers over.
The topics are clumsy modifiers, ambiguous pronouns, misuse of synonyms, jargon, and the word “and”. Midway, the session looks at the cognitive factors that make business writing effective or ineffective. It ends with an exercise showing how easily the techniques fit into everyday writing, and participants are invited to join the discussion.
Why attend: Since email became the main way people communicate at work, HR professionals are judged on the quality of their writing. Clear writing creates a positive impression; vague or clumsy prose leaves readers confused. This session gives HR professionals who send many emails across their organization concrete tips for writing clearly to clients and colleagues.
What’s covered
- Clumsy modifiers
- Ambiguous pronouns
- Misuse of synonyms
- Cognitive factors behind effective and ineffective business writing
- Jargon
- The word “and”
- An exercise applying the techniques to everyday writing
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Ryan Standil is the president of Write To Excite, which is an organization that offers seminars on legal writing and business writing. Prior to becoming a writing instructor, Ryan worked at a corporate law firm and as a proposal writer at an investment bank. He attended Western University, in Ontario, Canada, where he graduated from the HBA program at Ivey Business School and the JD program at the Faculty of Law.
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