Margaret McDonald is an award-winning business writer and a dynamic speaker with more than 25 years of experience in professional business communications. Margaret's entertaining programs, including Smart People, Stupid E-Mails; We Have to Stop Meetings Like This,; and I'm Not A Writer But I Play One Online help organizations get more done by making the most of their communication skills - every day.
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Does your organization use e-mail as a productivity tool?
Or has e-mail become a productivity sink?
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Smart People, Stupid E-Mails
Contact Margaret to speak at your event!
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For most professionals, e-mail is a way of life. It’s how we communicate
with everyone from bosses to subordinates, suppliers to customers, and partners to legal foes.
Smart People, Stupid E-Mails takes your team on a tour of brainless e-mails and shows you
how to turn that trend around.
Smart People, Stupid E-Mails will engage and ignite both those who know better and those
who want to learn – and this entertaining and practical program will help you set a new
standard for e-mail that truly works.
Your entire organization will learn how to:
- Make sense quickly
- Get the information they need
- Check their outgoing missives for fatal flaws
- Boost their capacity for intelligent communication and
efficient, productive work
- Save time and money - every day!
But does anybody really know how to e-mail?
A quick look at the average inbox suggests we
don’t – and the trend is going from bad to worse.
Custom Workshops Available
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Contact us for additional workshops on:
- Communicating professionally online and at work
- Phone skills, business letters, and other office communications
- Meetings, presentations and public speaking
- Working with the press
- Developing key messages and news releases
- And more
Turn every communication into smart, productive work
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How to work together and still get things done
We Have to Stop Meetings Like This
Meetings are a necessary part of life – from staff updates and internal announcements to client
overviews, working sessions and more. But in many offices, meetings get too little done,
move too little forward, and give too many people an excuse to avoid their real work.
We Have to Stop Meetings Like This takes a no-nonsense approach to the problems of
ineffective meetings and shares dozens of productive solutions and time-saving, culture-
changing tips to solve them.
Altogether, you’ll gain the tools you need to make the most of onsite, offsite and online
meetings – and to use your group time wisely, profitably and well.
Your team will learn to:
- Make every meeting efficient and productive – whether you
stay on track or let go of the original agenda
- Watch for bad habits that commonly get in the way of
productivity and understanding
- Keep vocal minorities from running the show
- Develop tricks and techniques that keep everybody from
wasting time
In fact, so many companies do a poor job of planning and executing meetings
that overcoming the common problems – and the unintended downtime they
create – could become a competitive advantage for your team.
Available onsite, as webinars, at conference sessions, and customized to your business & organization
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