Writing Skills for Business
1 day course
What you will learn:
- 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 and ensure a positive tone
- Adopt techniques to proofread your document for spelling, punctuation and grammar
- Use the four-step writing process as a framework for business correspondence
What you'll get:
Workbook
Lunch and refreshments
Capped class sizes
eCertificate
Post Course Support
What you will learn:
- Implement a prewriting plan 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 and ensure a positive tone
- Adopt techniques to proofread your document for spelling, punctuation, and grammar
- Use the four-step writing process as a framework for business correspondence
What you'll get:
Courseware and Handouts
Capped Class Sizes
eCertficate
Post Course Support
This course is ideal for
Anyone who wants to improve their written communication skills when writing business correspondence including Emails, letters or short reports.
Online Training Prerequisites:
Participants are required to have a working computer with a microphone and speaker installed. No software needs to be installed before the training session however, we require an up-to-date web browser. For the best experience, we recommend downloading the latest Google Chrome browser.
Topics covered in this training course
- Business writing in the AI world – why it is important to write well when AI can produce content
- Principle of writing for business purposes
- Personal needs analysis on writing
- A framework to work from when writing any business document
- Tools for planning and idea generation, including constructing a mind map, brainstorming with AI and how to make a flowchart
- Develop visually appealing layout and format for message clarity
- Using well known formula for common messages such as delivering bad news or BLUF lines.
- Ensure you have addressed your purpose from the reader’s perspective and avoid common pitfalls
- Review the voice, tone and style of language to ensure clarity and simplicity and meet the purpose.
- How using positive words and phrases lifts the tone and removes some of the associated negativity
- Suggested techniques for proofreading your document to ensure you make the right impression
- How to improve spelling and punctuation
- Common word confusion
Understand the typical components of a short report and how to apply the four-step writing process
