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Writing Skills for Business

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Writing Skills for Business

Corporate Support Learning Pathway

Odyssey Training’s Corporate Support Learning Pathway is designed for talented professionals who are looking to accelerate their career progression and build current capability and performance.

The program covers key competency areas to help them diversify and expand their skill set as they transition from team member to team leader.
Course 1 Essential Skills for the Administration Professional 2 Days
Course 2 Dealing with Difficult Behaviour 1 Day
Course 3 Resilience in the Workplace 1 Day
Course 4 Writing Skills for Business 1 Day

Duration
1 Day (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)
Meals Provided
Lunch and refresments
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Course Overview

As with any form of communication, the way we write is influenced by the many unique variables including our knowledge, interest, skill, personality and emotions. This practical course will assist you to plan, organise and structure a range of business communication formats whilst giving you the opportunity to expand your own personal writing style.

Expected Outcomes

Implement a prewriting plan in order to meet the desired objective of the correspondence.
Apply professional layout, format and development of content.
Use words and phrases that will improve the comprehension of your message.
Adopt techniques to proof your document for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Use the four-step writing process as a framework for business correspondence.

Prerequisites

There are no suggested prerequisites for this course.

Who Should Attend this Course

This course is designed for people to improve written communication skills, applying the business principles of “plain english” when writing business correspondence including letters, emails, memos and short reports.

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
Creativity
Written communications

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Topics Covered [Click to Show All]

Principles of writing for business purposes
Understand the three main principles of business writing you need to consider.

Personal needs analysis
Identify your own personal needs for improving your business writing.

Planning to write
Tools for planning and idea generation including constructing a mind map and how to flowchart.

Writing the draft
Layout and format your document so the reader will be visually encouraged to read, and your message can be easily understood.

Developing the message
A framework and formula for developing situational content regardless of the message.

Edit and revise
Ensure you have addressed your purpose from the reader's perspective and avoid common pitfalls.

Proof reading
Suggested techniques for proof-reading your documents for accuracy to ensure you make the right impression of yourself and the business.

Memos
Review the difference between memos and other business correspondence.

Introduction to short reports
Understand the typical components of a short report and how to apply the four-step writing process.

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Writing Skills for Business

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