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Report Writing Program
 About the Course:
Report Writing training will enable you to write easy-to-read, effective documents that will achieve your desired results and create maximum impact on your audience.
An essential aspect of communication in any successful organization is targeted, persuasive writing. The results you want from your e-mails, proposals, recommendation reports, and team communications hinge on your ability to grab your audience's attention and persuade them to act on your ideas. In this course, you develop effective writing skills that convey a credible message and project a professional image. Through practical hands-on exercises, you create compelling and powerful business documents and reports.
Target Audience:
Professionals at all levels who want to improve their business writing skills
Course Duration:
24 hours
Course Content:
- Why Good Business Writing Matters
- Improving the bottom line
- Enhancing your professional image
- Increasing your business effectiveness
- Analyzing and solving your writing problems
- The Business Writing Process
- Kick-starting with prewriting
- Breaking writing down into manageable steps
- Generating ideas to cure writer's block
- Scheduling tasks for completion within a realistic time frame
- Drafting and revising
- Building around any available raw material
- Organizing information to highlight gaps
- Choosing words and style appropriate for audience and context
- Revising to heighten impact
- Planning for Your Audience
- Adapting to audience needs
- Contextualizing your writing
- Eliminating barriers between you and your readers
- Leveraging different communication styles
- Deciphering clues to style preferences
- Responding and relating well to your readers
- Collaborating on Business Documents
- Tailoring the writing process for collaboration
- Assessing needed skills and resources
- Composing in the group setting
- Reviewing and revising for a coherent whole
- Realizing quality improvements in long, complex works
- Economizing through delegation and coordination
- Benefiting from diverse knowledge
- Synthesizing for one customer-focused approach
- Honing Your Writing to Improve Persuasiveness
- Making credible claims
- Avoiding oversimplification
- Countering opposition
- Substantiating your arguments
- Influencing your audience to value your ideas
- Managing reviews that lead to substantive improvements
- Working with readers' values and receptiveness
- Writing Reports that Address Business Problems
- Drawing readers' attention to the situation
- Writing statements of the problem
- Delineating the problem's business impact
- Demonstrating the value of confronting the situation
- Recommending solutions
- Conducting effective research
- Analyzing evidence
- Applying decision-making criteria
- Proving that your recommendation supports the organization's mission
- Keeping Your Business on Track
- Communicating with your team
- Enhancing employees' careers with written kudos
- Supporting corrective action with appropriate documentation
- Leading and advising in a concrete, constructive manner
- A professional approach to e-mail
- Respecting readers' time, interest and ability to focus
- Extinguishing flame wars
- Increasing your e-mail response rate
- Crafting subject lines that ensure your e-mail won't be ignored
- Producing Winning Proposals
- Organizing to meet customer requirements
- Preventing 11th-hour syndrome
- Ensuring your competitive edge
- Spotlighting your technical strengths
- Proofreading for outstanding presentation
- Summarizing at the executive level
- Pitching your ideas in a competitive environment
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