Communication Skills for Policy Professionals: Effective Writing and ...

The School of Public Policy is pleased to offer

Communication Skills for Policy Professionals: Effective Writing and Speaking

a special multi-session hands-on seminar taught by Ambassador (ret.) Richard D. Kauzlarich Deputy Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), School of Public Policy

This non-credit seminar will run over the course of four Saturdays: March 10 and 24; April 7 and 21 from 9:30am ? 1pm
Seminar Fee: $150 for students and alumni
Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance through the Office of Continuing and Professional Education at Mason
Registration and payment instructions can be found here.

Seminar Description

Communicating is something we do constantly. The environments in which we communicate are constantly changing. Understanding how we communicate in different environments is important to success in our professional lives. This seminar is designed to help you think about communicating ? whether in written or oral form ? in a public policy environment. The objective is identifying the tools for skillfully and effectively presenting your message to senior policy makers whose most precious commodity is not the message you are conveying but the time they devote to hearing or reading your message.

Communication is never done in a vacuum so this seminar will stress the importance of team-building and peer review for good communications. It will include class participation through oral briefings and short written papers. We will learn how peer review can improve the quality of our message ? and learn how to take helpful critiques of our own work. This is not a writing class but we will focus on a few helpful rules that can improve our writing.

Instructor Bio
Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich served as National Intelligence Officer for Europe on the National Intelligence Council from September 2003 to April 2011.

Prior to that position, he was Director of the Special Initiative on the Muslim World at the United States Institute of Peace. Ambassador Kauzlarich joined the Institute in Spring 2002 after a 32-year career in the Foreign Service. He served as United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997-99 and to Azerbaijan in 1994-97. He was Senior Deputy to the Secretary of State?s and the President?s Special Representative to the Newly Independent States (NIS) in 1993-94. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European Affairs in 1991-93, responsible for relations with the former Soviet Union and economic ties with the European Union.

Ambassador Kauzlarich also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in 1984-86 and as Deputy Director of the State Department?s Policy Planning Staff in 1986-89, handling global and international economic issues. He was also Director of the Department of State?s Operations Center 1983-84.

In addition to his ambassadorial assignments, Ambassador Kauzlarich has served at US Embassies in Ethiopia, Israel, and Togo.

He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in the Foreign Policy program working with the Center on the United States and Europe. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Joint Forces Staff College of National Defense University.

He is a member of the National Council of the College of Arts and Sciences at Valparaiso University. He serves on the board of Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area and is its Treasurer. He is also a member of the advisory board of Clean Trade.

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Source: http://www.currents.gmu.edu/2012/02/29/communication-skills-for-policy-professionals-effective-writing-and-speaking/

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