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Now Scheduling January through June 2012

Business Communication Skills Consultants offers standard one-day and half-day workshops on grammar, punctuation, and usage as well as customized sessions tailored to the specific needs of your company.  Click the "Contact" button above to inquire about scheduling during the first half of 2012.


We also offer two shorter programs designed for coffee or lunch gatherings:
  • OOPS! YOUR GRAMMAR GLITCHES ARE SHOWING is a fast-paced hour program based on Ruth Cook's popular blog, Grammar Glitch Central.  It highlights amusing glitches in the media and offers quick, practical fixes.

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  • CREATING AND MANAGING EFFECTIVE EMAIL is a two-hour program packed with good advice on maximizing the effect of the subject line, formatting content that will be read, organizing received email in practical ways, and more.
 
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ruthcookRuth Beaumont Cook grew up in Bedford, Ohio and earned a BS in German and English education from The Ohio State University. She came to Alabama in 1970 and lives in the Birmingham area.  Ruth combines two busy careers--one as a corporate trainer and facilitator specializing in basic business communication skills, including grammar and usage, punctuation, and format.  She is also a published author with two successful commercial titles, GUESTS BEHIND THE BARBED WIRE and NORTH ACROSS THE RIVER.  Ruth serves on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Writers' Forum and coordinates St. Mark the Evangelist church's support of the First Light Shelter for Women and Children in Birmingham.

 

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Are you looking for a Lunch and Learn program or a Coffee Course for your staff? How about Oops! Your Grammar Glitches (and other writing slips) are showing!

 

Based on examples from her popular blog (Grammar Glitch Central), Ruth Beaumont Cook presents often hilarious examples of writing Glitches and ways to fix them. The program includes word usage bloopers, apostrophe and comma abuse, and word order nightmares.

 

This one-hour presentation can be expanded to a half-day workshop that offers participants the opportunity to practice fixing the Glitches themselves.  The workshop includes The Cook Book of Writing Solutions.

 

For more information, click the "Contact" button above.