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Each client’s business communications take place in a unique context. Whether the project concerns training or writing, we first clarify the related business issues and the role of communications in addressing them.

The approaches to thinking and writing taught in the Communications Logic Workshop tie directly to the Presentation Skills Workshops. Your team will practice using one framework, one streamlined approach to both written and spoken communication.

COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING Communications Logic Workshop Half-Day Communications Logic Refresher
At a time when concise, direct documents are needed to support rapid decision-making, clients have asked about review sessions for Communications Logic participants. They want their teams to sharpen their skills and boost their critical thinking capabilities. To meet this need, Meachin Communications is now offering a Half-Day Communications Logic Refresher.

It is for people who have taken the full-day Communications Logic program (required) and who are now or will soon be working on an important communication, which they would like to structure rigorously with guidance from the facilitator and feedback from their peers.

In four hours, review + hands-on practice structuring a document + guidance and feedback. It runs from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

—  We first review Communications Logic principles: analyzing the audience, clarifying their own
      objectives, setting the context with the Introduction, synthesizing the Main Message, supporting
      that message inductively or deductively, framing next steps
—  Participants work on their structure diagrams
—  Group discusses and gives feedback on each structure diagram (maximum of five)

Flexible agenda and group size. The agenda can be tailored to each client’s needs, e.g., discuss fewer structures and spend time on storyboarding the documents. Or the group could consist of a team dedicated to a single document. The refresher can accommodate up to five to 10 people, with a maximum of five documents to be structured and discussed.

Communications Logic Workshop
In a Communications Logic Workshop, your team learns how to create more persuasive documents
and create them faster using a flexible framework and a simple process. The typical workshop takes up to one day, depending upon group size and agenda.

The Workshop covers the entire process from initial thinking to end product:
Identifying key elements of communication strategy
Adopting a time-saving pattern for crisp introductions
Developing a “main message” that will capture the audience’s attention
Understanding logical structures and when to use them
Creating the framework of the communication, a structure diagram
Transforming the structure diagram into a well-written document

Participants apply new skills to their own documents in progress so that training advances business goals. They get real work done, enhance critical thinking skills through reviewing each other’s work, and leave with a tightly structured communication.

What sets our training apart is how we tailor it to our client’s needs:
We reflect client content in the course examples and exercises
We can show how to turn a structure into a client document
We can provide a complete model document as an ongoing teaching tool

Case Study:  A Fortune 100 company’s Strategic Planning and M&A groups were not communicating as effectively as they would have liked...
 
 
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Presentation Skills Workshop
Presentation Skills Workshops give people the techniques to deliver messages with natural ease and authority, whatever the speaking occasion. To provide a personalized, top-quality experience for each participant, we work only with small groups or individuals.

In a supportive, risk-free environment, participants see themselves as their audiences do. They practice a range of techniques and see the results during individual videotape reviews. They walk away with new capabilities and a toolbox to draw on in any situation. Because confident speakers must have confidence in their material, we also focus on the business message and its logic.

We offer several training options:
Group workshops to improve presentation skills and build teamwork. These come in
  many configurations, to meet varying needs
One-to-one executive coaching to upgrade skills in a brief, high-impact session
Rehearsals to bring team skills to peak level for high-stakes presentations. A small
  investment in rehearsing gives presenters confidence and authority when winning is
  critical
  
 
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Total Immersion Workshop
Total Immersion Workshops combine Communications Logic and Presentation Skills. This intensive program is ideal for bringing a new team up to speed, preparing for a new business blitz, upgrading skills for a seasoned team at an offsite meeting . . . whenever you need across-the-board communications training that will make a difference.

Case Study:  A growing investment bank wanted every presentation to reflect the firm's innovative thinking and high-energy approach to doing business...
 

Case Study:  At a major management consulting firm, our client’s project team members were technology experts, but had difficulty conveying messages to their client simply and directly more information...
 
Case Study:  A global industrial leader’s internal auditors/consultants wanted to improve relationships and levels of cooperation with their own clients...


 
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THE WRITTEN WORD

Editing and Writing
When clients need crisp, reader-friendly proposals, project documents, and market-facing white papers, they come to Meachin Communications. Clients also come to us when speed is essential: in many cases, we can provide immediate edits to a crucial document facing a deadline.

We work with your subject matter experts to convey your message concisely and powerfully. First we structure the message to capture the reader’s attention, and then write it in normal, jargon-free language.

Projects include proposals, books, white papers and points of view.

Case Study:  At a top consultancy, a proposal team needed professional writing and editing skills to create an important proposal in a very short time...

Case Study:  A leading consulting firm outsources many of its intellectual capital writing projects to Meachin Communications...


 
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