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COURSE OVERVIEW

Time and again staff, in other ways competent, create ineffective business reports. Too many reports are unclear, badly presented, offer no logical sequence and require managers to spend significant amounts of time correcting and editing drafts.

This course provides a stimulating introduction to business report writing and focuses on report preparation, strategy, structure and effectiveness.

COURSE BENEFITS

Skills:

After completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the target audience for a report

• Write a report using information that meets target audiences’ requirements

• Bring into play writing techniques that maximise acceptance of the author’s viewpoint

• Employ tone and voice to project the report’s contents

• Apply presentation strategies to maximise conciseness, readability and clarity

Support Materials:

This course is accompanied by a substantial manual that includes briefings, examples, checklists and strategies for use in business report writing.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This intensive hands-on course is open to all-comers, although staff with less experience will find it of greatest value. The heart of this course is not in grammar or spelling, many other courses deal with those matters – it is in the correct sequencing and presentation of content. The result is the production of compelling and insightful reports that cannot be put to one side and that add significant value.

COURSE Programme

Audience and Framework

• Points of Practice - better business reports

• Understanding the target audience

• Structure of business reports - examples

• Points of Practice – cultural perspectives

• Points of Practice – reporting channels

The Storyboard System

• The 5S storyboard system

• The “state”

• The “standard” or yardstick

• The “source/s”

• The “significance”

• The “supposition”

• Points of Practice – co-operative conclusions

• Points of Practice – best value conclusions

• Points of Practice – quality checks

• Points of Practice – business objective relevance

• Points of Practice – layout of observations in reports

Structure

• Audience expectations

• Chapter and verse / Paragraph structure / Table structure / Action Strip Structure

• General typographic and layout considerations

Tone

• Unbiased language

• Use of Standard English

• Connotation

Conciseness and Readability

• Conciseness

• Phrasing

• Readability

• Jargon and register

Clarity

• Writing coherently

• Active and passive voice

• Person

• Points of Practice – projection through voice and person

Selling Business Outcomes

• Better reporting

• Readability guidelines

• Thinking about the message

• Points of Practice - when a report is not a report

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This course is designed, developed and presented by MindGrove Ltd.

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