HOW DO YOU HELP BUSY EMPLOYEES strengthen their command of English fundamentals—without making them feel like they’re in fifth grade again?

How do you reach hundreds of employees with essential training—without killing your training budget?

Salient Grammar is the answer. It's a lively seminar in the essentials of English grammar and punctuation, and it was specifically designed for the workplace. Its approach, accordingly, is strictly need-to-know and all business. The seminar has been successfully delivered at some of the largest corporations in the U.S. and Canada and in organizations as diverse as GE Capital, Rockwell International, Lucent Technologies, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, The Gartner Group, and even the CIA.

A CLOSER LOOK

Teaching bonehead English to busy employees can be a daunting challenge, but Salient Grammar makes it seem easy. The course balances three critical objectives:

• addressing the areas where business people make the most errors;
• engaging—and holding—employees’ attention;
• providing a solid foundation for ongoing learning.

Salient Grammar delivers on every front. The program thows out academic approaches to the subject and starts with a clean slate, presenting only those rules and principles that people in business actually need to know. To engage employees’ interest—and foster a true appreciation of the subject—the program continually shows how the principles in Salient Grammar enhance virtually all the communication skills employees need to be successful in their business careers. In addition, we use team competition—in the form of a grammar game show—to review the material in each module.

Finally, we kept our sights on the ultimate goal: that employees would use their new skills back on the job. We realized that, when in doubt, few employees have at their desks any way of looking up grammar or punctuation issues they encounter in their writing. The solution: Every participant in Salient Grammar receives a personal copy of the paperback Grammar for Smart People—easily the most user-friendly reference currently available.

KEY TOPICS

• Core Concepts I. The building blocks of English, and how being able to see the basic "spine" of any sentence can help you avoid one of the most common errors in business writing.

• Core Concepts II. The critical usage principles we all should have learned in school—and this time they’ll make sense.
• Internal Affairs. Distinctions that can help you with a number of business writing situations—everything from structuring bullets to controlling emphasis.

• Avoiding Pronoun Paranoia. Everything you need to know about the single part of speech that gives people in business the most grief.
• Points Well Taken. At last: a user-friendly approach to punctuation and a guide to the comma situations everyone in business needs to master.

SCHEDULING A SEMINAR

For more information or to book a seminar, please contact us.