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  • Essentials of Social Media Management: Amplify your Brand and Engage your Customers
  • Leading Effective Meetings: Optimizing your Time and Resources
  • Developing an Attitude of Professionalism: Values and Attitudes for Success
  • Effective Workload Management: Everyday Techniques to Get Things Done
  • Multi-Generation Workforce Management: Bridging Work Styles across a Diverse Workforce
  • Project Management Skills for Everyday Tasks: Adopting the Mindset from Planning to Execution
  • Handling Customer Complaints: Communicate and Connect with your Customers
  • Customer Service Recovery: Win Back Customers and Keep Them for Good!
  • Effective Video Production: How to Produce Interesting, Compelling, and Viral Videos
  • Critical Thinking and Decision Making in the Workplace: Analyze and Implement Effective Solutions
  • The R.O.I. on a Customer Service Mindset: Reaping the Benefits of a Customer Service Culture
  • Professional Image and Presence: Civility and Etiquette in the Modern Business Setting
  • Managing People Development: A Toolbox Session on Initiating and Managing Programs for Employees Satisfaction and Productivity
  • Supervisory Essentials: From Task to People Management
  • Interactive & Engaging Presentation Skills: Applicable Tools & Techniques for your presentation
  • Sales Proficiency Training (SPRING): Methods and Techniques in Sales & Negotiation
  • Digital Marketing Toolbox: Using the Paid, Owned, and Earned Model
  • PHONETOGRAPHY: Explore, Create, & Inspire using your Smartphone
  • Supervisory Essentials Training: Leader as an Effective Communicator
  • MS Excel Made Simple: Beginners Guide to Basic Excel
  • CODING FOR KIDS (PART 1): Enhancing Creativity & Critical Thinking
  • MS EXCEL ADVANCED: Optimize its Functions to Ease and Simplify Data-Driven Tasks
  • CREATE A STRESS - FREE SPACE: Managing Stress for a Happier and Healthier you
  • Building and Condo Management: Property & Facility Management, Leasing and Preventive Maintenance
  • Marketing 101: How Marketing is at the core of every growth strategy
  • Practical Enterprise Architecture
  • DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT: Native Advertising: Aligning Creative Thought Process and Storytelling with your Business Strategies
  • Business Etiquette 101: Professional Guide to Projecting the Best Image of your Company
  • Basic Quality Toolkit: Apply the 8 tools used to improve Productivity, Efficiency and Effectiveness
  • Creating and Enhancing Relationships with Customers: How to Achieve Customer Engagement and Loyalty
  • Exploring MS Powerpoint and Beyond: Interactive and Engaging Presentation Tools
  • Fundamentals of Coaching: Developing a Coaching Culture in your Organization
  • Effective Selling: Elevating your Sales Game with Tools and Techniques to Close a Sale
  • Strategies in Digital Writing: How to Write Lean, Fast, and Viral
  • Facilities Management and Comprehensive Maintenance Program
  • Effective CSR Programs: Planning and Executing Relevant Programs with Social Impact
  • Basic Macros and Visual Basic Application: Simplify and Execute Spreadsheet Tasks in just One Click
  • Property Management of Subdivision Projects
  • Fundamentals of Developing People: Ensure your Employees' Growth and Productivity
  • Process Documentation, Mapping, and Analysis: Improving Business Processes for Effective Execution and Output
  • Effective Negotiation Skills: Applying the Different Styles of Negotiation for Everyday Application at Work
  • Productivity Plus: Purpose + Passion = High Performance
  • Lean Thinking and Management: Eliminating Waste and Adding Value
  • Conflict Management: A Win-Win Approach
  • DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: Maximizing technology to enhance Customer Experience, improve Operational Efficiency, and expand Business Models
  • Finance for Line Managers: Analyzing Financial Reports for Business Decision Making
  • Tourism Marketing: Creating a Marketing Plan for your Tourism and Hospitality Business
  • Mindfulness in the Workplace: Improving your focus, creativity, and decision making
  • Full Stack Web Development: Acquire In-Demand Skills to Create an E-Commerce Website
  • Events Management: Techniques and Strategies on Planning and Launching Events
  • Crucial Conversations: How to deal with Power, Position and Authority
  • Handling Customer Complaints
  • Review Class for CISI Exam: International Introduction to Securities and Investment
  • Review Class for CISI Exam: International Introduction to Securities and Investment
  • Social Media Analytics: Drive results to your business through a data-driven approach
  • Getting Things Done: The Power of Execution
  • Leadership Excellence in Challenging Times: Future-proofing your Organization
  • Building and Condo Management: Property & Facility Management, Leasing and Preventive Maintenance (CEBU)
  • Strategic Key Account Management: Planning and Implementing Dynamic Account Strategies
  • Design Thinking for Innovation: Techniques and Processes to Create User-focused Solutions in the Workplace
  • Simplified Tax Compliance for SMEs: Applying Best Practices and Approaches
  • Coding for Beginners: Explore a New Career in Programming
  • Present! - A Mindfulness Workshop for kids to improve focus and creativity
  • Chill Out: A Mindfulness Workshop for Teens to pay attention to current state of emotions
  • Effective Visual Communication: Create Compelling Content
  • Handling Conflicts in the Workplace: Building Trust and Sensitivity
  • Project Management Toolbox: Adopting the Mindset from Planning to Execution (CEBU)
  • Speaking with Confidence: Overcoming Anxiety in Public Speaking
  • Photoshop for Beginners: Creating Artwork For Online and Print Materials
  • Project Management Toolbox: Adopting the Mindset from Planning to Execution
  • Selling to Managing: Making the Leap from Individual Performer to Sales Leader
  • Create an Impactful Online Brand Image: Ensure a Connection with your Target Audience
  • Practical Labor Relations: Useful Advice and Tips on Employee Discipline
  • Highest and Best Use of Properties: Determining the Best Use and Highest Value for Maximum Profit
  • Critical Thinking and Decision Making in the Workplace: Analyze and Implement Effective Solutions (CEBU)
  • Practical Labor Relations: Useful Advice and Tips on Employee Discipline
  • Effective CSR Programs: Planning and Executing Relevant Programs with Social Impact (CEBU)
  • Developing Content & Building Connections with Media
  • Basic Selling: From Tactical to Strategic Selling
  • Essentials of Business Communication: Written and Oral Communication for Everyday Use
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    WHY GOOD WRITING IS ALWAYS RELEVANT

    Although many of my Gen-X contemporaries lament the writing ability of the younger generations, we also wonder if such a skill is still relevant in today’s twitter-sized media bites world. Shouldn’t everything be expressed in 140 characters or less? We asked our colleague at Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sports Editor Francis Ochoa, who conducts a workshop on effective writing applicable even for those in the corporate world, for some of his thoughts on this matter.

     

    1.) We live in the age of bite-sized, social media ready information. Is it still relevant to learn to write paragraphs or lengthy reports?

    While digital and social media penetration is at an all-time high, this is no excuse to neglect long-form writing. Often, it is this type of writing that you can actually keep and reread. In the digital age, the news and information cycle refreshes at breakneck speed that the details people pick up there lingers only until the next cycle. Long-form writing provides context, analysis and layered depth to the way information is shared, thus the need for such type of writing.
     
    Also, for future reference, in-depth and long-form articles provide more zeitgeist and historical context for information one intends to produce with a longer shelf life. For a piece of information to stand the test of time, it has to be written to stand the test of time.
     
     

    2) How do we keep people engaged, given the shorter attention span of today’s media consumer?

    Grab their attention right away. We are in the age of the omni reader, a reader so powerful that he has the ability to do the one thing no generation of readers have had: Decide to stop reading. An omni reader chooses when he wants to read, where he wants to read and what he wants to read. If we don’t lock in their focus right from the start, your article is a goner.

     
    Writers must also learn to create images instead of spoon-feeding a visual or an emotion. Show, don’t tell.

     

    3) How could good writing add credibility and enhance the image of a brand?

    For people with no actual or visual experience of a brand, their first introduction to it is mostly literature. If you put out literature about a brand that’s vague and bland, people will either get turned off or have little interest in giving the brand a chance. To get to an audience whose introduction to your brand is some form of literature, you want to have writing that’s full of impact and does justice to your brand.

     

    4) Can great writing be learned, or do you have to be born with the talent?

    I have never believed that people are born writers. Writers are made. Writing is a skill that is developed with hard work and repetitive—to the point of boring—practice.