At Elsevier

It's been a while since I posted on this blog as the last few days have been hectic training at Elsevier. Like I mentioned in an earlier post that it's Professional Email Writing that I have been training the teams on at Elsevier.

I started the training with a pre assessment that evaluated the writing skills of the participants. I divide the pre assessment into two parts: Testing for general language skills and using their own sample mails for editing exercises. This helps me understand exactly what difficulties learners face in writing emails. Many start with bad subject lines, others don't have a clue about subject verb agreement, and most lack the knowledge of how to structure their emails. With the pre assessment scores I draw an analysis of the gaps in their writing skills, and then develop the workshop to help them write better.

I end the workshop with a post assessment that evaluates the writing skills at the end of the workshop, and I sit with the learners to draw a personal development plan. The pre assessment and post assessment scores are communicated to the stakeholders of the program along with a report on each learner.

Let me know if you would like a similar program for your team.