Effective Business Writing and Reporting
Course
In City of London
Description
-
Type
Workshop
-
Location
City of london
-
Class hours
6h
-
Duration
1 Day
-
Start date
Different dates available
This participative course introduces key principles of effective business writing through a range of real life examples and practical activities. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the key principles learnt in a range of practical exercises.
Facilities
Location
Start date
Start date
About this course
Participants will leave the course able to:
identify the features of effective business writing and incorporate them into their own correspondence and reports
write clearly and concisely so as to avoid ambiguity and retain the reader’s attention
avoid common obstructions to effective written communications, such as poor sentence or paragraph construction
write in an appropriate tone, depending on the purpose and readership of the written communication
present information in a visually appealing and easy to assimilate way
Anyone with an interest in or responsible for writing reports, letters and other correspondence, or involved in preparing and producing publications for both internal and external customers and other third parties.
Reviews
Subjects
- Report Writing
- Business Writing
- Communication Skills
- Planning
- Communications
- Writing
- Communication Training
- Effective Communication
- Writing Skills
- Report editing
- Editing
- Concise Writing
Teachers and trainers (1)
Jacqueline Williams
Teacher
Jacqueline is a freelance consultancy/trainer working in the private and charity sector. Her areas of speciality are governance, financial management and strategy. Jacqueline is a qualified accountant (Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) with extensive experience in audit- external and internal audit, compliance and special investigations.
Course programme
- Successful business writing
- The importance of planning
- Guidelines for clear and concise writing
- Eliminating waffle from reports
- Writing effective introductions
- The importance of conclusions
- Making recommendations in reports
- The importance of editing
- A practical checklist for reviewing written communications
Effective Business Writing and Reporting