Workshops … Interactive, Engaging, Effective, and FUN!
Time is money — unfocused writing wastes it.
I’ve helped thousands of people achieve goals. .. personal and professional.
I can help you, too!
Simply call 703-297-6764 or email Carla@WriteToInfluence.Net
“Write to Influence!” workshops and webinars tailored for:
Private business
Corporations
Government agencies
NGOs
Academia (high school through graduate school)
Powerful writing tips the balance between success and failure.
Tip it in your favor!
What shall we discuss? Select one or more of the options below … or I can tailor a workshop to your specifications. One hour to two full days, I’ve done it all!
Write to Influence! Ace Your Performance Review: Learn to identify your most significant achievements and them present in hard-hitting, no nonsense terms! Own your success boldly … it’s not bragging! Establish that record for future promotions!
Write to Influence! Secure Those Grants: Learn precisely what the grantmaker seeks and how to present your program so it resonates soundly with the grantmaker’s goals. Write to Influence! strategies and Word Sculpting Tools will enable you to present a case that is well organized, powerful, and compelling.
Write to Influence! Ace that Resume: You may be the best-qualified candidate but if the competition is better at telling a story, you lose. Learn to correlate your skills and experience to the potential employer’s needs and describe those in a way that definitely grabs attention! This workshop can be expanded to include strategies on how to master the job interview.
Powerful Writing for Professionals: Private business, NGOs, corporations working with the government, and government agencies all benefit from this cut-to-the-chase, write clearly workshop to develop and hone critical business writing skills. Learn to purge bureaucratic blather, gibberish, redundancies, and other sloppy techniques prolific in contemporary business communiques.
Put your Writing on a Diet … Word Sculpting Fundamentals: Learn and practice 10 tools to eliminate wasted words, redundancies, gibberish, and more! Transform pages of rambling verbosity into hard-hitting text.
Demystify Commas and Other Grammar Nits: One of my most popular features, I intersperse “wee bits of grammar” throughout the workshop in fun, enlightening, and easily digested doses. Complex made easy. Can be added to any workshop. at least 90 minutes in length.
Write to Influence! Nail the College Application Essay: The college application essay is an invitation to shine! Learn what works and what doesn’t. Apply Write to Influence! strategies and Word Sculpting Tools to compose an essay that will impress the admissions team and open academic doors!
(For Students) Land that Job — Resumes and Interviews: Everyone begins somewhere! Demystify this process. Learn to write a gripping resume. Become familiar with interview questions. Learn to strategize and deliver spot-on responses!
Spin that Captivating Tale … Write to Influence! (For Fiction Authors). Keep the reader hanging on each word from that all-important opening hook to the story’s conclusion. Apply my methodology paired with literary techniques to produce sparking text that prompts this response from readers, “Sequel, please!”
More Satisfied Clients!!
We partnered with Carla for good reason! Per our employees:
-Phenomenal 2-day class! Wish I had this sooner!
-Informative, educational, awesome. Perfect teaching style!
-Her workshop and book are invaluable—Spot on!
-Carla’s an exceptional writer and a great presenter!
—Beth Krause, Director, Learning Solutions, FTI Consulting
Colonel Bass did an amazing job engaging our high school students. They participated fully because of the fun, stimulating, and challenging learning atmosphere she created. We gifted a copy of Write to Influence! to each graduating senior! Colonel Bass and her writing class have our highest endorsement. We will definitely hire her again!
-- Jo A. S. Thoburn, President & CEO Fairfax Christian School
The future belongs to communicators … Carla Bass’ workshop and her book make a tremendous difference!
—Jim Bellas, CEO, Diplomatic Language Services
Thank you for an impressive presentation! The teens truly benefited from your writing techniques and strategies. Your dedication to empowering others through their own writing certainly shone through.
—Jane Drabkin, Public Librarian
My wife, son, and I attended Carla’s workshop on college essay writing at our local public library and were hooked. We bought this book and have been devouring it. I recommended it to our son’s English teacher as an invaluable teaching aid. Fantastic job, Carla!
—S. Néné
(Carla and Néné family on “Great Day Washington”)
Carla’s webinar ‘Ace Your Performance Review!’ was one of the best educational sessions our Young Professionals Group ever received, I absolutely recommend it to others! Eye-opening, engaging, and fun! She incorporated input from our own performance reviewsi nto her before/after examples, so the material definitely resonated. Great initiative!
Katharyn Tupitza, Young Professionals Group, McCormick & Company Inc.