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Training

NAIWE offers a variety of webinars and teleconferences as a way to develop your professional skills.

November 6, 2025

Time: 2:00 pm Eastern

Webinar: “Smarter Workdays Start Here.TM How AI lays on top of a popular time management framework”
with David Radin, NAIWE’s Personal & Team Productivity with AI Expert

Cost: $30

In this session, David Radin, creator of “Time Management in the Age of A.I.TM” takes a look at how artificial intelligence can be effectively coupled with one of the world’s most popular time management techniques (the Eisenhower/Covey Matrix) to make both techniques more effective.

December 11, 2025

Time: 2:00 pm Eastern

Webinar: Unlocking Your Full-Time Freelance Editing Career
with Rachel Bradley, NAIWE’s Copyediting Expert

Cost: $30

Freelance editing is an exciting career that can come with some scary prospects—inconsistent work, unreliable clients, unwanted interruptions, business considerations, and strong competition. In this empowering one-hour webinar, Rachel Bradley of Revisions by Rachel Inc. will share how her relationship with Jehovah through his Son Jesus Christ has been the key to unlocking a thriving career. Rooted in biblical principles, this session blends practical tools with eternal purpose—ideal for editors craving professional growth intertwined with deep purpose and meaning. This webinar will offer guidance for these essential keys:
 
  • Actions to take to stay booked for months in advance
  • Ways to market yourself to attract and retain clients
  • Tactics to produce peace and avoid stress and overwhelm
  • Charging for your services in a way that works for your clients and you
  • How to face life without fear
Rachel Bradley will transparently share the strategies that have contributed to her success. Her faith-based perspective does not reflect the views of NAIWE. NAIWE is not affiliated with any religion and welcomes members of all faiths and personal convictions.

January 13, 2025

Time: 2:00 pm Eastern

Webinar: Craft a Bestseller Using Marlowe 3
with Authors A.I., a NAIWE Benefit Partner

Cost: $20

Unsure about how to integrate AI ethically and effortlessly into your creative and editorial process?

In this hands-on webinar, Authors A.I. CEO Alessandra Torre will guide fiction authors through the rewrite journey using the new Marlowe 3 tool. You’ll learn how to uncover valuable insights about your book’s plot, pacing, development, and more. Plus, see how your book stacks up alongside bestsellers in your genre.

  • See your novel in a new way: Learn how to set up your personal Author Dashboard to optimize your editing process.
  • Get helpful feedback you can apply: Get comfortable using AI to tighten scenes, strengthen characters, and trim fluff
  • Fix the potential problems in your story: Learn how to identify blind spots or weak areas in your writing that hold back sales
  • See proof of the difference: Case studies of manuscripts improved through AI insights

January 8 – February 26, 2026

Time: 2:00 pm Eastern

Course: Macros 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director

Cost: $199

Do you often perform the same tasks in Microsoft Word? How much time do you waste doing repetitive tasks at the beginning of each project? At the end? How about just in general throughout the editing process?

In this 8-week course, you will learn how to maximize your time by putting those repetitive tasks in a macro, allowing you to push one button and they are all done!

Some of the tasks that can be put into macros to speed up your process are auto formatting documents (font, size, color, margins, spacing between paragraphs, and double or single spacing documents), find and replace, adding comments, deleting comments, exporting comments, and other advanced concepts.

In addition, you will learn more than one way to create macros so you can create them in the way that is easiest for you!

Class Overview

  • Macro Basics
  • Find and Replace
  • Introduction to Visual Basic
  • Formatting a Word Document
  • Find and Replace Macros
  • Comments
  • Combining Macros
  • Advanced Macros

March 5 – April 2, 2026

Time: 2:00 pm Eastern

Course: Marketing 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director

Cost: $124

Marketing 101 teaches the fundamentals and theory of marketing your business. The main topics to be covered include the following:

  • marketing ideas
  • setting business goals and obtaining them through marketing
  • branding (create your brand and use it to the fullest)
  • developing and limiting social network connections
  • overcoming cold calling fears
  • developing processes for success.

Class Overview

  • Marketing Goals
  • Marketing Activities
  • Branding
  • Social Networking
  • Cold Calling
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