Business Writing Coaching
Team and Individual
As a manager, you want to provide the best leadership so your team reaches its goals. Sometimes individual members' writing and language skills lack the right level of effectiveness and efficiency. It's often difficult to diagnose the issue or for a given employee to improve with a standard training program. Other times each individual's writing is adequate, but a team writing project disintegrates in "style differences," misses the deadline, or is just plain mediocre.
The Myers Method offers a custom solution to help you and your team improve communication skills through personal and team coaching. Your team performance will improve and together you will enjoy the benefits of success and smooth relationships.
As an individual, you want to improve your writing skills. You know you can increase your effectiveness, but don't know how to remove your writing skill barriers. Ask your manager for the Myers Method personal coaching in Business Writing. You will benefit from private and honest feedback on actual work-related documents. You will re-work those difficult issues so that they become your next successes.
With the right resources and easy-to-use references for your specific needs you'll find expressing your ideas easier. You'll get positive responses quickly and receive compliments on your organized thinking. You will be confident that your writing reflects your knowledge and expertise.
Business Writing Coaching Case Studies
Team Coaching
Team Coaching begins with a meeting of the managers and the Myers Method consultant to learn the goals of the team's writing and receive confidential sample documents of "meets" or "does not meet" expectations if possible. The objective is to learn how to approach the team's needs, strengths, and add value to the existing relationships by enhancing them with the refinement of the Myers Method for Writing. In addition, each individual will have the opportunity to strengthen writing skills in personal coaching with the consultant. This is usually confidential and via e-mail and phone.
After this assessment phase, the process is designed, and may include a live presentation to the team, or a workshop, or another format. Work may be conducted via e-mail, telephone, live meeting, or a combination. Specific reference materials and resources are developed for each team.
Personal Coaching
Personal Coaching may begin with a meeting with the individual and the manager, or with the individual alone. This may be in-person or by telephone. Coaching can take place via e-mail and telephone, with some in-person meetings at the individual's request. Confidentiality with the consultant is essential. We encourage an on-going discussion and accountability between the individual and the manager. Progress and achievement are dependent on the commitment and work of the individual and the support of the manager.
Contemporary communication standards are evolving, and openly sharing these issues is beneficial for everyone. Even editors do not agree on all standards of English! We are all learners, and we recommend The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. The usage panel gives insights particularly useful for business writing purposes. Sometimes a well-meaning manager gives advice based on "what I learned in high school" that is not what current business language experts recommend.
We design the process for coaching with each individual, and develop materials and resources to meet the needs we identify. Together we estimate the time required to accomplish the work. Each person is given study points and revisions of current work assignments and reference materials to review.
Please contact Liz Myers to discuss your challenges and ideas. Together we'll review some strategies and suggestions.
Liz's phone number is 609-882-1991
E-mail: LizMyers@MyersMethod.com