For over 50 years, Spence & Company has taught business professionals not only how to communicate more effectively, but also how to think more clearly. Whereas most books and courses on business communication focus on the details of grammar and English usage, Spence & Company workshops teach participants how to use the principles of effective communication to organize and express their ideas.

Participants in Spence & Company workshops learn to use a unique set of templates to compose e-mail, business documents, and presentations that are consistently clear and persuasive. The templates provide detailed but flexible guidelines for defining a point of view and constructing an argument to support it. The Spence & Company approach also enables people to increase the pace at which they compose documents and presentations.

Spence & Company teaches principles of clear thinking and argumentation that everyone can agree on. Our approach provides an objective basis for evaluating and revising all forms of business communication, taking these tasks out of the realm of personal style and preference. Our common-sense approach to organizing ideas appeals, furthermore, to both right-brain/visual and left-brain/verbal thinkers, equally benefitting those for whom verbal expression is not a natural talent, as well as those for whom it is.

Our clients include companies and professional firms ranging in size from a few employees to the world’s largest corporations. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, trained in numerous professions, learn a common format for organizing and presenting ideas, whether in writing or as presentations. In this way, organizations ensure that their professionals share a common approach to evaluating information and making decisions.