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Speed Writing Skills Training Course: Speedwriting, a guide to faster te taking, an easy to learn alternative to shorthand. Most people need a te taking system for work or study but few people have the time or inclination to spend a year or two learning shorthand. This is the UK spelling version of the bestselling book (for the US spelling version please use ISBN 9781849370110). BakerWrite Speed Writing enables you to learn a new system in a matter of hours and become proficient within weeks. This book is laid out in 6 easy to follow lessons, that take about an hour each. There are practical guided exercises, with full answers, in each chapter and each session is rounded off with a dictation passage (available from http://www.UoLearn.com). Save time and become more efficient taking dictation, in meetings, on the telephone, in lectures or interviews. No strange squiggles to learn - just different ways to use the letters you already kw. Your tes will be easy to transcribe. Enhance your career with a new skill. Save time by reducing your written text by about 33% - often more. Adapt the system to suit your needs. Free downloadable dictionary and workbook. A terrific opportunity to save time and change your working practices - for the better! What do people think of this speed writing system? The principles are very easy to follow, and I am already using it to take tes.BakerWrite is the easiest shorthand system I have come across. Having studied all the major shorthand systems and even other speed writing courses, I find BakerWrite a sheer delight.I will use this system all the time.Your system is so easy to learn and use.I will recommend this course to everyone who takes tes. About the author - Heather Baker Heather studied Pitman shorthand at school and then at secretarial college in Salford, England where she also learnt Pitman shorthand in French; she later learned Teeline shorthand and w regularly teaches these. BakerWriteTM is based on her experience with these systems and 22 years as a secretary and PA - taking tes daily. She has been training and coaching secretaries, PAs and administrators since 2000. Please te there is an alternative edition of this book, Easy 4 Me 2 Learn Speed Writing. About the author: Heather Baker Heather had over twenty years' experience as a secretary and PA before setting up Baker Thompson Associates Limited in 2000. The company specialises in the training and development of secretarial and administrative staff, www.bakerthompsonassoc.co.uk. She w travels all over the UK working with large and small companies to enable their office staff and PAs to work more effectively and efficiently. She also delivers courses in the Middle and Far East. Heather is a Certified NLP Practitioner. She worked for ICI Pharmaceuticals (w AstraZeneca) and Hewlett Packard; she spent 5 years in France working for the Commercial Director of Cognac Hine and then 10 years with Granada Media working up to Personal Assistant to the Managing Director, commuting regularly between their offices in Manchester and London. She developed this speed writing system to fulfil a requirement by many companies for a quick and easy way for their employees to take tes. The course became very popular and she was often asked if there was a book with the basics of the system - so here it is! This system is a top best seller on Amazon. BakerWrite speedwriting is also available to learn online at www.BakerWrite.com. Heather is also the author of Successful Business Writing (9781849370714) and Successful Minute Taking (9781849370387), available to order from any bookshop and at www.uolearn.com Heather has been married to Ian since 1979 and they have two daughters, Ailsa and Erin. This book is dedicated to them with profound thanks for all their support over the years. I am 51 years old and have been a secretary more or less since I left school. I took the requisite Pitmans shorthand course whilstProduct Identifiers
PublisherUniverse of Learning Ltd
ISBN-101849370753
ISBN-139781849370752
eBay Product ID (ePID)114021771
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SubjectManagement & Business: General
LanguageEnglish
AuthorHeather Baker
FormatPaperback
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Date of Publication20/03/2012
Place of PublicationBury
Series TitleSkills Training Course
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
Edited byMargaret Greenhall
Author BiographyAbout the author: Heather Baker Heather had over twenty years' experience as a secretary and PA before setting up Baker Thompson Associates Limited in 2000. The company specialises in the training and development of secretarial and administrative staff, www.bakerthompsonassoc.co.uk. She now travels all over the UK working with large and small companies to enable their office staff and PAs to work more effectively and efficiently. She also delivers courses in the Middle and Far East. Heather is a Certified NLP Practitioner. She worked for ICI Pharmaceuticals (now AstraZeneca) and Hewlett Packard; she spent 5 years in France working for the Commercial Director of Cognac Hine and then 10 years with Granada Media working up to Personal Assistant to the Managing Director, commuting regularly between their offices in Manchester and London. She developed this speed writing system to fulfil a requirement by many companies for a quick and easy way for their employees to take notes. The course became very popular and she was often asked if there was a book with the basics of the system - so here it is! This system is a top best seller on Amazon. BakerWrite speedwriting is also available to learn online at www.BakerWrite.com.Heather is also the author of Successful Business Writing (9781849370714) and Successful Minute Taking (9781849370387), available to order from any bookshop and at www.uolearn.com Heather has been married to Ian since 1979 and they have two daughters, Ailsa and Erin. This book is dedicated to them with profound thanks for all their support over the years.
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