Janet Bailey

Janet Bailey

CA, US
Improving focus in a distracted world---through clear writing, thinking, and priority-setting

Janet Bailey helps people improve productivity and focus through concise writing and smart priority-setting. An engaging speaker with a highly facilitative approach, she guides participants to gain clarity among competing demands, and to communicate in a way that promotes action and rapport.

Audiences benefit from her background as a freelance journalist with expertise in concise and persuasive communication. Her clients include Fortune 100 companies, tech startups, health care providers, associations, and government agencies.

Janet is Past President of NSA-Northern California, and is one of only 12 winners of the Patricia Fripp Leadership Award, given in recognition of extraordinary service to the chapter.

Janet gained early experience in both communication and entrepreneurship at the age of eight, when she published a weekly neighborhood newspaper and sold it door-to-door for a nickel a copy. Many years later, she became the mind-body columnist for Glamour and Redbook magazines. Her articles on leadership, wellness, and career success have appeared in Chief Executive, Health, Robb Report, Bottom Line, and other leading publications. Her entertaining history of San Francisco, The Great San Francisco Trivia & Fact Book, was an Amazon top-25 bestseller.

Janet Bailey helps people improve productivity and focus through concise writing and smart priority-setting. An engaging speaker with a highly facilitative approach, she guides participants to gain clarity among competing demands, and to communicate in a way that promotes action and rapport.

Audiences benefit from her background as a freelance journalist with expertise in concise and persuasive communication. Her clients include Fortune 100 companies, tech startups, health care providers, associations, and government agencies.

Janet is Past President of NSA-Northern California, and is one of only 12 winners of the Patricia Fripp Leadership Award, given in recognition of extraordinary service to the chapter.

Janet gained early experience in both communication and entrepreneurship at the age of eight, when she published a weekly neighborhood newspaper and sold it door-to-door for a nickel a copy. Many years later, she became the mind-body columnist for Glamour and Redbook magazines. Her articles on leadership, wellness, and career success have appeared in Chief Executive, Health, Robb Report, Bottom Line, and other leading publications. Her entertaining history of San Francisco, The Great San Francisco Trivia & Fact Book, was an Amazon top-25 bestseller.

Essential Business Writing Skills

Good writing increases credibility and cooperation, while less-than-good writing can lead to confusion and delay. Get better results from your emails, reports, and other business documents by saying what you mean clearly and concisely. Improve your productivity by giving readers the information they need, the way they need it---so the message gets through the first time.

Benefits:

  • Plan and draft documents with more focus and less stress.
  • Spot and eliminate...
Entertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing

Technical Writing

Technical writers have the challenge of making industrial, scientific, or engineering-related information clear to readers of varying levels of expertise. Whether you write instructions, specifications, manuals, reports, or proposals, you will learn processes for analyzing, writing, and editing that will improve the effectiveness of your technical communication.

Participants will learn to:
  • Plan, draft, and revise technical documents efficiently.
  • Determine...
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Mindful Time Management

Overload is a fact of professional life. Confronted with too many opportunities and demands, we react to the loudest stimulus, or keep doing what's comfortable, even if it isn't what matters most. One-size-fits-all time management "solutions" don't make sense in today's constantly shifting environment. Instead, this interactive workshop will help you to be more conscious about the decisions you are making moment to moment and incisively aware of default habits that are getting in your way....

Entertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing