Description

Description

Writing is a key method of communication for most people, and it’s one that many people struggle with. Writing and communication skills have degraded with more and more people communicating through email and text messaging. Developing writing skills is still important is the business world as creating proper documents (such as proposals, reports, and agendas), giving you that extra edge in the workplace. The Business Writing workshop will give your participants a refresher on basic writing concepts (such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation), and an overview of the most common business documents. These basic skills will provide your participates with that extra benefit in the business world that a lot of people are losing.

Designed for
– Managers, Supervisors and leads.
– Teams.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
– Gain better awareness of common spelling and grammar issues in business writing.
– Review basic concepts in sentence and paragraph construction.
– Know the basic structure of agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports.
– Know tips and techniques to use when deciding the most appropriate format to use for agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports.
– Know tips and techniques in writing agendas, email messages, business letters, business proposals, and business reports.
– Gain an overview of Request for Proposals, Projections, Executive Summaries, and Business Cases.
– Define proofreading and understand techniques for improving proofreading skills.
– Define peer review and list ways peer review can help improve business writing skills.
– List guidelines in printing and publishing business writing.

Getting Started
Just to make sure the experience is as smooth as possible we’d like to suggest a couple of things you may or will need to get on with the course:
– While we are happy for anyone to enrol in the course, we suggest that you should be at least managing/leading a team (big or small) or preparing for a role that requires your leadership skills
– Internet connection is a big must
– Readiness to learn, remember this is about you and so you need to be ready to take time to yourself and motivate yourself
– Maybe something to write some notes down or ideas, but don’t worry the course documents can be downloaded at the end of the course for you to review and use at any time

Have fun!