Business Writing Skills

Success in today’s organisation is closely related to the ability to communicate ideas and messages effectively and succinctly. Poorly written correspondence can have disastrous results for your organisation and waste valuable time and resources.

This course is highly practical to give delegates the opportunity to apply all the techniques covered.

Course Outline

Writing - Fears and Hopes

• Why is Writing Important?
• The purpose of writing

Fine Tune Your Writing

• Four fundamentals
• Why, who, when, how of writing

Obstacles to Avoid

• How to confuse
• Make Your Writing Clearer
• Most Frequently Misspelled Words
• Grammatical rules
• What is correct
• Know Your Reader
• Writing for different readers
• The Readability Test
• Exercise
• Is your writing understood by the reader?

Structuring Paragraphs

• How long, how short
• Categorisation
• Report Writing
• Why write a report?
• The ten parts of a report

Use the Right Word

• How do you choose?
• Tone
• How to Make Notes
• Mind-mapping
• Brainstorming

The Writing Plan

• How to get started
• Should you be formal or not?
• E-mail
• Group Exercise
• Personal Action Plans