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Margaret McDonald is an
award-winning business
writer and a dynamic
speaker with more than
25 years of experience in
professional business
communication
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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.
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
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Contact Margaret
to speak
at your event!
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.
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Custom Workshops Available
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
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Productivity
Competitive Advantage
Professionalism
Efficiency
Clarity
Turn every communication into
smart, productive work
                     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