Any document, media piece, or email bearing your organization’s insignia or name must be absolutely error free. Even a careless mistake in an email can damage a leader’s reputation and can make an entire company look bad. Proofreading is a skill anyone can learn and improve. Very few business professionals actually ever have been TAUGHT how to proofread. More and more employers are citing “attention to detail” as a quality they desire in new hires.One week following this training, a participant from a CPA firm called to say: “The straight edge just saved my life!”She is a Compliance Supervisor and was revitalizing a formal document as part of a vendor agreement. She was about to present this multi-page document to the head of her department, but instead, she printed it and grabbed her straight edge first. In multiple places throughout the agreement, she had typed ‘sing’ instead of ‘sign’. She declared that she would have never caught that embarrassing mistake had it not been for the techniques acquired in PROOF IT! HOW TO BE A BETTER PROOFREADER.Learning ObjectivesHow to catch the bloopers—before the bloopers catch youWhy you never should proofread directly from your computer screenHow to spot errors of omissionHow to proofread in a distracting office environment under tight deadlinesThe “Proofreader’s Power Pack”: Which tools and resources are indispensable to a proofreaderThe “Newspaper Proof”: A fail-safe three-step approach to proofreadingHow to make sure messages leave your office error freeWho Should AttendCommunication consultants, administrative professionals, public relations, consultants, marketing consultants, human resources officers, compliance specialists, copywriters, editors, anyone who oversees outgoing correspondence.Why Should You AttendYou have ever forgotten an email attachmentYou’ve had to resend that same email two minutes later with an “Oops, here it is” messageYou’ve ever sent out mass correspondence with a big typo and didn’t realize it until it was too lateYou make simple mistakes Spell-check doesn’t catch such as typing “form” instead of “from” or “you” instead of “your”You’re so short on time you’ve begun to overlook errors of omission and other hard-to-catch mistakesYou have a whopper of a proofreading blooper story of your own to tell