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Writing Your Professional Biography

 
 

Course Description

 
This four-hour writing training course is designed for those who must present their credentials and accomplishments to both internal and external buyers. Writing training participants will generate their own "database" of career information, draft their consulting biography, and receive peer and instructor feedback on that biography. As an optional follow-up two weeks after the writing training workshop, participants will forward a draft of their biography to the writing training course instructor for a final critique.
 
Key Objectives
 
  • Generate a "personal database" of career credentials and accomplishments
  • Identify differences between a résumé and a consulting biography
  • Organize and select appropriate information for both internal and external biographies
  • Draft a consulting biography
  • Edit the biography for eye-appeal, readability, clarity, and persuasiveness
 
Who Should Attend This Biography Writing Training Workshop
 
Anyone who must write a biography to win either client contracts or internal assignments/projects
 
Materials/Texts
 
 
Class Size
 
15-20 in a workshop setting; larger groups with additional facilitators
 
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