Writing Effective Emails
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Writing Effective Emails
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4 Hrs (9:00 am – 1:00 pm)Meals Provided
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Course Overview
Good written communication skills are vital for every person in business today, particularly with email being such a popular method of internal and external business communication. Emails should be concise, clear and courteous if they are to satisfactorily acheive audience message comprehension whilst meeting business professional standards.
Expected Outcomes
- Improve your ability to communicate via e-mail to ensure your message is understood.
- Improve your ability to write with the audience's expectations in mind.
- Use words and phrases that will improve the comprehension of your message and ensure professionalism.
- Apply techniques to turn negative language into positive language, and remove emotion from your writing.
- Adopt techniques to proof your document for spelling, punctuation, grammar and tone.
Who Should Attend this Course
Anyone who wants to improve their professionalism and clarity for business email communications.
Core Learning and Development Competencies
This course has been designed to support the development of the following core competency areas identified to facilitate individual and organisational success:
- Business acumen
- Interpersonal savvy
- Written communications
Topics Covered [Click to Show All]
- Email etiquette
- What makes an effective email
- Making sure your email is appropriate for the audience
- Short and sharp writing skills to convey messages
- Quick and clear message format
- Words and language for business emails
- Ensuring a positive tone
- Removing emotion from writing and remaining depersonalised
- Punctuation essentials
- Tips for proof-reading
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