Seminars and Speeches
Business and professional people spend most of their work time reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This means that you spend most of your salary and benefit money on communications: if you add efficiency and power, you’ll see immediate, concrete benefits. Well-Read delivers those benefits through quality learning experiences. Contact Phyllis at **** for any requests.
Speed and Power Reading
Whether on screen or on paper, professionals spend 40%-70% of their work time reading: learn to do so 30%-90% efficiently. Read faster, understand better, retain more with the unique Power Reading system. Learn efficiency techniques to and comprehension strategies in every format.. Receive Phyllis Mindell's book, Power Reading, chosen as one of the best business books of the year!
Professional, Scientific and Technical Writing
This career enhancement workshop helps everyone who writes at work. Learn vital skills to write clear, crisp technical communications, proposals, letters, e-mail, reports...on paper and online. Get plenty of individual attention as you learn and practice every aspect of writing. Includes The Well-Read Organization System, sentence forms, structures, editing and proofreading, private critiques each day. Practice your own work (no "canned" exercises), and get an extensive resource package.
Executive Power Reading
An advanced course for mature readers who wish to read at the highest levels of efficiency and power. Learn to apply the Power Reading system to long articles and whole books. Improve speed, understanding, and retention; learn the tools of deep reading, analysis and synthesis, critical reading, and the new E-Reading system. Practice on books and complex pieces typical of those managers and executives must read efficiently and effectively.
Communication Skills for Leaders
Gain the language tools to earn attention and respect, help staff to understand and follow your directions, prepare employee evaluations, persuade others at all levels, present ideas clearly and concisely, deal with difficult people, cope with a diverse workforce, and understand gender issues. Includes private consultations.
Presentation Skills and Beyond
In this intense, individualized workshop, professionals as well as nervous novices learn and practice presentation skills. Recordings show growth as you move from planning to writing to choosing words to using visuals and gestures. You'll even acquire strategies to do powerful critiques of your own work and coach others. Benefit from private consultations with a director, an audio-visual expert, and a language specialist.