Dr. Ali's Workshops & Training
Brain-based Tactics for More Effective Employee Communication
Poor communication skills cost organizations more than 40 billion dollars a year in lost productivity. This is due, in large part, to the abundance of poorly constructed written communication. With the culture of remote work, team structures and digital tools changing rapidly, written communication has never been more critical to the success of an organization.
In this fast-paced workshop, Dr. Ali Atkison will show your team how to examine their own writing habits and improve their business-writing skills. The Business-Writing workshop series enhances employees' understanding of and ability to recognize common factors that are essential to effective business communications, and it teaches employees specific tactics to improve their business-writing skills.
The workshop series teaches employees how to maximize the impact of written communication through improved tone, clarity, and conciseness. This workshop series also introduces an effective yet easy-to-implement 3-step process for the construction of successful business documents.
Ali’s approach is fun and interactive, and she ensures that your employees can employ this newfound knowledge in their roles, thus positively impacting their everyday communication and your organization’s bottom line. This course will ultimately afford your employees an understanding of the power of words and the skill to use them impactfully.
Upon completion in this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Identify and articulate the impact of their written communications on their reputations, their careers, and their organization
• Utilize appropriate tone in communications to ensure impactful communication with others
• Write more clearly and concisely, ensuring impactful communication
• Utilize the ACE 3-step framework to write effectively and efficiently
For groups who would benefit from revisiting basic and intermediate grammar skills and putting them to practice, content may be added to the workshop to specifically focus on improving writing skills for business documents and communication.
Training That Sticks: Using Brain-Based Strategies to Increase Retention and Effectiveness in Training Efforts
How do you know your organization’s training endeavors have any impact? Many organizations pour money down the drain by focusing on content but not training tactics that ensure learning is actually taking place. If this happens, the training doesn’t stick, and it does not help the organization’s bottom line.
Let Dr. Ali Atkison show your trainers brain-based tactics that will help you ensure that when they conduct organizational training, the training sticks. Dr. Ali’s workshop teaches subject-matter experts how to leverage brain-science basics to ensure that their training has the intended impact—meaning learning not only takes place, but is also actually applied when employees return to their everyday roles. This means that your professional development efforts will positively impact your organization’s bottom line.
Her approach is fun, interactive, and—best of all—super easy for trainers to implement! She will work with your trainers to ensure they feel confident taking the tactics she teaches and employing them their own training contexts.
Upon completion in this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Describe foundational processes with regard to how adults learn
• Apply brain-based tactics to their own training efforts
• Identify ways to ensure learning is actually taking place when they train