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Start Date: 29 Sep ,2024
End Date  : 3 Oct, 2024 
Duration   : 5 Days
 
Overall Description: 
This course is designed to help all business professionals who are required to present ideas in writing and who wish to sharpen their business writing skills.
 
Course Objectives: 
Learn the optimal business writing process, to write any document at work confidently.
Use a proven process to plan and write any document.
Quickly generate and organize ideas.
Write clearer and more concise documents.
Spend 30% less time on each document.
How to write more efficiently and effectively.
Plan, draft and edit important documents including memos, business letters, reports, and emails.
Tailor your writing style dependent on the audience and goals of the document.
Write with purpose, so there is no doubt what the reader's next action should be.
 
Course Outline (Content): 
 
The “Who” and “Why” of a Written Document
Writing for the purpose of the document
Focus on the benefits for the reader
Understanding Sentence Structure
Subjects and predicates
Recognizing parts of speech
Writing Sentences and Paragraphs
Topic sentence
Paragraph and sentence length
Paragraph linking and coherence
Maintaining consistency of tense
Using positives vs. negatives
Using jargon and technical terms
Avoiding common sentence problems
Punctuation
Period
Comma
Comma errors
Semi-colon
Colon
Question mark
Dash
Hyphen
Using apostrophes
Punctuation common errors
Using Illustrations, Numbers, and Capitals
Using capitals
Using numbers
Using Illustrations
The 7 Cs of Effective Writing
The Writing Process
Preparing to write
Organizing your information
Writing the draft
Writing Guidelines
Layout
Content
Citation and Documentation
Style
Types of Written Communication
Letters
Letters of Persuasion
Letters of Complaint
Letters of Request
Letters of Denying a Request
Letters of Recommendatio
 Reports
The elements of reports
How to write reports effectively
Types of reports
Memos
Minutes of Meeting
Emails
Email is not an excuse to write poorly
Use an appropriate tone and style
Parts of an email message
Common errors in email-writing
Proposals
Purpose of proposals
Elements of proposals
Construction of a good proposal goal
Writing effective proposals
 
Who Should Attend?
Managers, Supervisors and all business professionals who are required to present ideas in writing and who wish to sharpen their business writing skills.
 
Course Methodology: 
We utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course will be conducted as a highly interactive workshop session. A variety of training methodologies will be used Before and during the course whenever applicable. Some of these methods are gamification, online pre-post test, role plays, self-assessment instruments, group exercises & case studies.