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Corporate Skills Development: Business Report Writing
Duration: 1-day
Course overview:
Do your reports directly influence decision-making? Do you want to strengthen your reports so that they have more impact? Do you want to manage the report writing process so that it is more time-efficient?
This course helps you to follow the key steps to producing a professionally-written, influential report, and provides opportunities for you to develop your writing style in a fun and interactive environment.
Target audience:
Anyone who has the responsibility for, or is involved in the process of, writing business reports.
You will learn how:
- To identify different types of reports and their usage
- To plan your business report, following “best practice” guidelines
- To clarify the objective(s) and terms of reference
- To identify your readers, their needs, interests and perspectives
- To time-manage the entire report writing process (breaking the whole task into sub-tasks and setting milestones)
- To assess the level and detail of information needed
- To practice summarizing complex ideas and information
- To develop your writing style using positive, collaborative language
- To engage your readers by writing to address their needs, interests and perspectives
- To edit your first draft to strengthen your message
- To follow guidelines for layout and presentation
- To avoid common pitfalls of grammar and usage
At the end of this seminar, you will be able to:
- Feel confident that your business reports are professionally written and follow “best practice” formats
- Write reports that directly influence decision-making
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