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Business Writing Course

Report Writing Course

We offer a one day in-company Report Writing course, and also a Business Writing course delivered for organisations in and around Melbourne.

The image of your organisation will be tarnished if the business writing skills of your staff are inadequate. Furthermore, the business performance of your organisation will be damaged if your staff cannot efficiently compose and convey their message in written form.

Poor structure, sloppy grammar, cluttered layout or the wrong tone in either an email or written report can lead to a customer or stakeholder losing confidence in the writer.

Our highly interactive one day Business Writing training shows participants how to apply important business writing principles to either their report writing or their correspondence, so as to ensure their written communication is clear, concise, and complete, and presented in a proper format. The course is delivered in-company and very much tailored to the needs of your organisation. Course content can include ....

TOPIC  CONTENT
The communication process

The writing process
Problems associated with one way communication
Business writing today
The image you create through your written word

The composing process

The 4 step process
Using spider-grams to organise ideas and to increase speed of writing
Identifying the reader
Composing from the spider-gram and learning to write quickly
The editing process

Principles of effective business writing

Recognising people’s ability to comprehend and retain information
Techniques for adding clarity to your writing …

  • Formatting techniques
  • Main message first
  • Passive / active voice
  • Sentence length and structure
  • Word choice
  • Grammar techniques
  • Positive phraseology
  • Conversation style
  • Personal pronouns
Composing a business case and guidelines for report writing

Overall aim – to focus on the customer needs
Defining the format and style required by the organisation
Organising large amounts of information
Basic proposal report layout – using the template
Using customer terminology
Incorporating a Cost Benefit Analysis
What should be included in the body & what should be in an appendix
Being persuasive
Writing Executive summaries
Editing overlays
Format: the need for uniformity throughout the document
Visual presentation of the proposal

 

  • Tailored to your workplace

A unique component of our Business Writing course involves participants submitting some pre-course samples of their written work, which helps to ensure the training is designed more closely around individual needs. Extracts of participant written work are used for exercises during the course.

  • What does it cost?

As a broad guide, the cost for preparation and in-company delivery of a one day Business Writing Skills course in Melbourne is $2,700 + gst (for up to ten participants), plus $30 per participant workbook

Contact us now (03) 9725 3777  to discuss how our Business Writing course or our Report Writing course can be delivered in-company for your organisation. We are based in Melbourne but have delivered the courses around Australia.

Tender writing training and proposal writing training can also be delivered if required.

   

 

 

Business writing training, Report writing course,

 

 IN-HOUSE TRAINING COURSES
These training courses are offered
in-company and can be tailored
 
   

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offered by Performance Development Pty Ltd.

 

 

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