Better Business Writing Skills - half-day live online with expert tutor

Overview

This course will give you the skills and knowledge to write faster, clearer, and more impressive documents. This includes emails, letters, reports, blogs, and proposals.

• Live online training with an expert facilitator
• PDF reference manual
• Interactive and engaging

• Better Business Writing Skills - download

Skills and techniques to improve your written communication and write clearer and more impressive documents, emails and letters.

Overview

This course will give you the skills and knowledge to write faster, clearer, and more impressive documents. This includes emails, letters, reports, blogs, and proposals.

Key points include:

1. How to improve almost any document or email by using a style that radiates competence and courtesy, that will save you and the reader time.
2. Techniques for editing and proof-reading, plus how best to structure more formal documents, emails, and reports.
3. Writing with style and flair.

Other course objectives include

• Be more concise.
• Write in a way that radiates competence and courtesy
• Save time - yours and your reader.
• Use more effective openings and endings
• Getting the balance right between formal and informal
• Eliminating jargon, management-speak, clichés, and nonsense
• How to keep it short and simple without losing impact or appearing blunt or rude

Better Business Writing Skills - Course Outline

• Live online training with an expert facilitator
• PDF reference manual
• Interactive and engaging

Developing the right content, tone and style

• The writing process – regardless of document type.
• Expressing your points clearly and clarifying your aim and objectives.
• Using the ABC principle of Accuracy, Brevity and Clarity with best-practice examples

Editing skills and proofreading techniques

• Quick quiz - test your English knowledge.
• Editing techniques to increase clarity to reduce word count.
• Proofreading techniques and skills for different types of documents.

Making an Impact using Plain English

• Developing techniques to make an impression on the reader.
• How to write good beginnings and endings.
• Bringing your writing to life – making it visually appealing.

Writing with style and flair

• How to structure and organise your document
• Encouraging and convincing the reader to follow your train of thought or argument.
• Making your point in an engaging and entertaining way.

Email etiquette and email best practice

• Email etiquette – the do’s and don’ts of email sending.
• Rules and standards for better emails.
• When to use the telephone or face to face conversations instead of an email.

Application: Learning summary

• Participants work individually to summarise their personal learning points.

The course is designed for those who have experience of writing a variety of documents, and who want to develop their style of writing and sharpen their impact.
The content will apply to emails, letters, reports, sales tenders, and proposals.

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included