Learn to write communications that don’t waste time for you or your readers.
You’re busy. Your clients and colleagues are busy. Yet too often, the information we send and receive isn’t written with busy people in mind. This course will teach you how to create clear, concise communications that respect your readers’ time — and your own. Learn to structure sentences for faster reading and break bad habits that make your writing harder to understand.
In this practical webinar, you’ll get actionable tips and tricks to keep your writing short, simple, and effective. Because professional writing should be clear and accessible — never an intimidating, impenetrable fog.
1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 42m
Senior Lawyer, Editor, and Lean Practice Management Advisor, Gimbal Canada Inc.
Karen is a lawyer and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with over 20 years of international experience in corporate-commercial, regulatory, and education law. She is a co-founder of and principal at Gimbal Lean Practice Management Advisors, specialists in Lean and continuous improvement in legal and business processes in professional service firms and public sector institutions. Karen offers clients a powerful combination of legal experience and process improvement skills. Since founding Gimbal, she has taught Lean thinking and process improvement to thousands of lawyers and other professionals across North America and, in February 2020, she’ll be teaching a course on legal innovation and technology at McGill’s Faculty of Law. She speaks and writes regularly on the application of Lean in the legal profession, and facilitates projects that improve the practice and the business of professional service firms. Karen worked for years as a professional editor. She teaches powerful writing and editing techniques to business professionals who want to communicate clearly and concisely with their clients and colleagues. Education: B.Sc. (Honours) from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. Bachelor of Common Law (LL.B.) and Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) from McGill University’s Faculty of Law. Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma Sensei from Villanova University. Karen was a member of the Quebec Bar for over 20 years.
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Very helpful!
great information on ambiguity and double negative change to concise information
Informative course
This course was great. Short and sweet. The examples used were informative.
