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Strategic Business Letters and E-mail

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Strategic Business Letters and E-mail

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E-mail and computer keyboards may have replaced dictation and typewriters in the business world, but the importance of clear and effective written communication has never been greater. In her all-new book, business-writing expert Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts offers practical advice on writing messages guaranteed to get results. Drawing on her experience leading writing workshops for Fortune 500 companies, Lindsell-Roberts walks the reader through a variety of letter-writing exercises and shows how a well-crafted message can make any writer stand out in the crowd. Getting from a blank page or screen to a results-oriented message is easy with Lindsell-Roberts's proven Six Step Process. And numerous tips and reminders help make the central point that a successful message should always focus on what the primary reader needs to know. Best of all, Strategic Business Letters and E-mail is designed to save the user time and effort. Specific chapters on such areas as sales and marketing, customer relations, and personal business offer hundreds of sample letters, memos, and e-mail messages that can be used verbatim or with minimal alteration to fit a particular circumstance. Opening this invaluable book is the first step to jump-starting effective business communication.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618448330

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9780618448333

Speaking Your Way to Success

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Speaking Your Way to Success

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

In Speaking Your Way to Success, Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts draws on years of experience as a business communications expert to deliver straightforward guidelines for professionals on how to speak powerfully and effectively. Whether talking in front of a large group or engaging in a one-to-one conversation, this book will help anyone to speak up, speak well, and get noticed. Chapters include: -- Making Introductions -- Developing Listening Skills -- Using Politically Neutral Language -- Interviewing and Being Interviewed -- Speaking in Public -- Communicating Cross-Culturally -- Harnessing the Power of Today’s Multigenerational Workforce In her signature no-nonsense style, Lindsell-Roberts shows speakers how to pay attention to their audience, support their words with body language, interject stories the audience will relate to and enjoy, encourage audience interaction, and more. This book is packed with specific suggestions that can be applied immediately on topics such as giving and receiving compliments, keeping a conversation going, asking for a raise, and cold calling. There are strategies for introducing yourself when you don’t know anyone at an event, techniques for initiating conversation, and a checklist for rating your listening skills. Lindsell-Roberts also has a proven, no-fail attack plan for how to work a room. Stop lurking quietly in the shadows and start speaking your way to success!

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HarperCollins

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0547487657

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9780547487656

Business Writing with AI For Dummies

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Business Writing with AI For Dummies

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Learn how to generate high quality, business documents with AI This essential guide helps business writers and other professionals learn the strengths and weaknesses of AI as a writing assistant. You'll discover how AI can help you by chopping through writer's block, drafting an outline, generating headlines and titles, producing meaningful text, maintaining consistency, proofreading and editing, and optimizing content for search engines. Employees in all industries spend enormous amounts of energy writing, editing, and proofreading documents of all kinds. Now, you can improve your efficiency and boost the quality of your work, thanks to AI writing tools like ChatGPT, Jaspar, Grammarly, and beyond. With clear instructions and simple tips, Business Writing with AI For Dummies guides you through the process of using AI for common business writing tasks. Produce high quality, specialized writing quicker and at a lower cost Use AI to draft business-related content like emails, articles, business plans, grant proposals, bios, websites, and many others Incorporate AI into your writing process to make your workday more efficient Take advantage of AI so you can focus your human creativity on going beyond the basics For business professionals facing tight deadlines or large volumes of writing tasks, this easy-to-use Dummies guide will be a game changer.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394261748

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9781394261741

Strategic Business Letters and E-mail

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Weird and Wacky Facts

By: Arkady Leokum,K. R. Hobbie,Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts,Robert Obojski,Michael J. Pellowski

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Weird and Wacky Facts

By: Arkady Leokum,K. R. Hobbie,Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts,Robert Obojski,Michael J. Pellowski

How strange it is! Kids will go crazy over every wacky, sometimes icky, always entertaining fact in this brand-new Little Giant compilation. The topics range from food to customs, animals to history, nature to sports. For example, in Marostica, Italy, an immense chess board is built into the public square: the pawns and all the pieces are human beings, and the knights sit on real horses! Or how about this: Maine actually has a law that prohibits anyone from stepping out of a plane while it's in the air. From weird worms that stop island natives in their tracks to 4000 year old bathrooms with modern drainage systems, each tidbit of information is truly a treat.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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1402749872

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9781402749872

Technical Writing For Dummies

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Technical Writing For Dummies

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

A complete and friendly guide to technical writing! Let’s face it, a lot of technical documentation reads as if it had been translated into English from Venutian by a native speaker of gibberish. Which is annoying for you and expensive for the manufacturer who pays with alienated customers and soaring technical support costs. That’s why good technical writers are in such big demand worldwide. Now, Technical Writing For Dummies arms you with the skills you need to cash in on that demand. Whether you’re contemplating a career as a technical writer, or you just got tapped for a technical writing project, this friendly guide is your ticket to getting your tech writing skills up to snuff. It shows you step-by-step how to: Research and organize information for your documents Plan your project in a technical brief Fine-tune and polish your writing Work collaboratively with your reviewers Create great user manuals, awesome abstracts, and more Write first-rate electronic documentation Write computer- and Web-based training courses Discover how to write energized technical documents that have the impact you want on your readers. Wordsmith Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts covers all the bases, including: All about the red-hot market for technical writing and how to get work as a technical writer The ABCs of creating a strong technical document, including preparing a production schedule, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, rewriting, testing, presentation, and more Types of technical documents, including user manuals, abstracts, spec sheets, evaluation forms and questionnaires, executive summaries, and presentations Writing for the Internet—covers doing research online, creating multimedia documents, developing computer-based training and Web-based training, and writing online help Combining examples, practical advice, and priceless insider tips on how to write whiz-bang technical documents, Technical Writing For Dummies is an indispensable resource for newcomers to technical writing and pros looking for new ideas to advance their careers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764553089

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9780764553080

135 Tips For Writing Successful Business Documents

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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135 Tips For Writing Successful Business Documents

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

The ability to write well is a critical skill for professionals in nearly every field. Good writers provide leadership, influence decisions, and advance their own careers. In this new book, Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts draws from her twenty-plus years of experience as a successful consultant for clients in business, education, and government. In a lively, engaging style, she explains how to write persuasively for virtually any audience. Part 1 addresses the basics of all business writing: understanding the reader, drafting, achieving the right tone, creating visual impact, and editing. Part 2 provides more specific advice on brochures, executive summaries, speeches, PowerPoint presentations, Web site content, and much more. Concrete examples illustrate practical strategies such as how to present a message positively instead of negatively, how to sequence information for different kinds of readers, and how to use charts to highlight key points. Packed with valuable information obtained from actual clients in the field, 135 Tips for Writing Successful Business Documents is guaranteed to help anyone who reads it write to hit the mark.

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HarperCollins

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0547350295

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9780547350295

135 Tips on Email and Instant Messages

Plus Blogs, Chatrooms, and Texting

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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135 Tips on Email and Instant Messages

Plus Blogs, Chatrooms, and Texting

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

This latest title by business-writing expert Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts offers up-to-the-minute advice on writing electronic messages that are polished, polite, and effective. In her signature no-nonsense style, she shows how effective electronic communication can jump-start your business, advance your career, and expand your social network. 135 Tips on Email and Instant Messages addresses issues such as how libel and copyright laws apply to the Internet, using proper etiquette, and organizing a cluttered in-box. Lindsell-Roberts imparts a sense of humor to practical tips such as “don’t glut cyberspace with digital dross—know what isn’t appropriate for company email” and “eliminate thoughts that don’t add value—don’t leave your harried readers to extract the hidden kernels.” She offers convenient phrases that can be used verbatim (including subject lines proven to entice readers) and immediate solutions to common problems (including five ways to personalize an email to a large distribution that will increase the response rate). Informative and entertaining, this handy resource is packed with valuable information for anyone who wants to communicate electronically with confidence and competence.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547350325

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9780547350325

Technical Writing For Dummies

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1118069420

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Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Learn to influence audiences with storyopia: Stories that take them on a journey from what is to what could be: Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies shows you how to develop and deliver a presentation through storytelling, keeping audience interested, and most importantly, making them heroes that take action towards change. You’ll learn how to cull stories from your own experiences, and before you know it, you’ll have more stories than Aesop has fables. You’ll learn about the latest presentation software, so you can integrate visuals into your presentations and avoid the dreaded “Death by PowerPoint.” You’ll also learn how to deal with challenging on-the-spot situations, deliver investor pitches and executive briefs, and present a paper at a conference. Additionally, find out how to deliver someone else’s content and make it your own. This book will help you level up anywhere you need to present information by mastering the art of savvy presentations—the most effective business communications tools of our time. Identify experiences that can be molded into stories that drive change. Prepare powerful openings to hook your audience right away whether delivering in person, online, or hybrid Have your audience get the most from your presentation with an effective call to action Prepare a storyboard, which is like a frame-by-frame roadmap, that will mesh together what you’ll show and what you’ll tell Leverage software like Canva, Prezi, and Storyboarder to tie your presentation together Enjoy the colorful 8-page mini-booklet, “Storytelling to Storyboarding” This Dummies guide is perfect for any professional who needs to present, and at some time all professionals do. It’s also for entrepreneurs who want to build community and grow their business, in addition to students who want to wow teachers and classmates.

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399

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394201028

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9781394201020

Loony Laws & Silly Statutes

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Loony Laws & Silly Statutes

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Hundreds of the most ridiculous rules lawmakers have ever put into writing, drawn from actual city, state, and federal statute books. Find what has been forbidden about keeping pets (cats require tail lights in Sterling, Colorado), fishing and hunting, marriage, going to school, and much more. 128 pages, 75 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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0806904720

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9780806904726

Mastering Computer Typing

A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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Mastering Computer Typing

A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Guide for learning how to touch-type on a computer keyboard.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395714060

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9780395714065

The Secretary's Quick Reference Handbook

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

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The Secretary's Quick Reference Handbook

By: Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Newly revised and updated for today's office, this handbook is the ideal concise style guide for every kind of office communication. Now with expanded coverage of today's "electronic office", it includes the essentials of business English, business-letter styles, records-management techniques, postal regulations, overnight delivery procedures, desktop publishing, and more. Line drawings.

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