BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1a802eb8cd4bb542ed12c5398599bbb7 CATEGORIES:Courses & Seminars SUMMARY:Write Right Web Series w/John Bachner DESCRIPTION:
Presented by John P. Bachner, President of B achner Communications
CalGeo is partnering with John Bachner, Preside nt of Bachner Communications to bring his popular Write Right Seminar to ou r online community.
The seminar will be a series of four (4) webinars , originally presented live in May/June 2021. The recordings and materials are now available for purchase as a self-directed course on CalGeo's Online Learning Library. Once purchased, the attendee will have access to the mat erials for 1-year.
A Harvard English major with more than 250 published books and 2500 published articles and columns , John’s first involvement with technical professionals came in 1968, as a consultant to the Consulting Engineers Council of Metropolitan Washington ( CEC/MW). When his employer ceased operations in 1971, John established his own firm; CEC/MW became his first association-management client. Later, in 1973, the Associated Soil and Foundation Engineers (ASFE), since renamed th e Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA), retained Bachner Communicatio ns to manage the group and, soon thereafter, to provide professional-liabil ity loss-prevention guidance. John collected case histories and reviewed th em in depth, coming to realize that inadequate “soft skills” were involved in every loss. John prepared books, guides, monographs, case histories, sem inars, webinars, computer games, and much more to help professionals improv e.
He is the creator of the profoundly influential Fundamentals of Professional Practice (FOP P) program, a six-month basic-training course whose alumni include more than 2,000 engineering and environmental firms’ rising stars, more than 10 0 of whom are today the CEOs of the firms that enrolled them.
The emphasis is on writing fundamentals: understanding the “five C’s” of effective communication, sentence structures, key elemen ts of the parts of speech, obtaining full information, and, time permitting , issues related to e-mails and preparing lists.
This seminar is
essential to engineers regardless of their experience level! Loss preventio
n to reduce liability and professional development all in one.
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Webinar Recordings
SESSION ONE
I. OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION
II.
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF GOOD WRITING
III. PARTS OF SPEE
CH
A. Conjunctions
B. Interjections
C. Nouns
D. Modifiers
SESSION TWO
E. Verbs
F. Pronouns
G. Taboo Words, Including Absolutes and
Superlatives
SESSION THREE
IV.
SELECTED ISSUES
A. Unequivocal (Absolute) Statements
B. Jargon and Colloquialisms
V. PROVIDING
COMPLETE INFORMATION
SESSION FOUR
VI
. PROOFREADING
VII. E-MAIL AND INSTANT MESSAGING*
VIII. PARALLELISM AND LISTS*
* Time Permitting
CalGeo Members $100, Non-members $300. Cost also includes quizzes a nd practice materials that attendees can use to practice on their own.
< h6>Purchase Write Right Course CONTACT:Kelly Cabal: kelly@calgeo.org DTSTAMP:20240329T091304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T133000 SEQUENCE:0 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20210609T000000;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=TU TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR