Report Writing training
'How to identify and fix common writing mistakes with special emphasis on reports'
Do your senior managers waste time proof reading and correcting writing of junior staff before it goes out to clients?
Research shows customers distrust companies whose staff commit spelling or grammatical mistakes. Poor writing diminishes your organisation's credibility.
Your people can learn to write with greater economy, clarity and empathy. They'll master the 20% of writing tactics and 'best practice' that improves their writing by 80%.
Topics covered
Brainpower Report Writing one-day workshop covers core techniques and skills producing an immediate impact to the quality and clarity of your team's communication.
Topics include:
- What's the 'readability index' of your writing? Learn a simple formula to find out.
- How to refine and edit your own writing sample for an instant makeover
- Useful brevity tricks: using active voice, eliminating unnecessary words and avoiding qualifiers
- How to make every word count: avoiding repetition and redundancy
- Standard register: when to use formal and informal registers
- Plain English: avoiding complex language and reducing sentence length
- Style: How to improve your writing style using strong verbs and simple direct sentences.
- Clarity: Be positive; be specific; bullets; avoid idea gaps and blind spots.
- Tone: write with the reader in mind; 'I' vs. 'You'; saving face; WIIFM - What's In It For Me?
- Grammar: common grammar mistakes.
- Punctuation: How to use commas, apostrophes and contractions correctly.
- How to combat writer's block using freewriting, memory mapping and conversation
- E-mail: how to format your e-mails for readability, style and 'netiquette'
- Respect: vocabulary for gender, race and disability
- Readability: best fonts and layouts for online and paper-based material
- Further resources: style guide and thesaurus
- Makeover checklist: summary page to use from now on
By understanding and mastering each of these areas, your people will be able to compose more effective workplace documents and reports in a variety of business situations. Click here to enquire.
Report Writing Outcomes
On completion of the program participants will be able to:
- Use our makeover checklist, proofread and edit their writing to improve readability
- Organise written communications with a clearly recognisable purpose
Refer to a toolkit of report 'scaffolds' to organise structure
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Does Brainpower offer public workshops for individuals to attend?
We do not offer open workshops for individuals to attend.
Brainpower Training works inside companies and organisations with groups of their staff, usually in a workshop of around 10-16 people at a time.
The Brainpower difference: How we present
We use brain-based, multi-sensory, Adult Learning methods to keep theworkshop interactive, engaging and fun.
Appealing to all learning styles, there'll be:
flipcharts created and coloured pens to use for Visual learners - background music in the breaks for Auditory learners
- for Kinesthetic learners, as well as plasticene and pipe cleaners, brain-shaped squeeze balls with Brainpower logo to take-away.
Our facilitator adapts and
customises the presentation to suit the
specific needs of your team by
Your people will makeover their own writing sample on the spot and walk out with their writing transformed. And they'll also have a 100% self-correcting checklist to work with every time you write.
'Does the training include
any additional materials?'
Yes. All Workshop participants receive a reader-friendly, illustrated workbook to refer to during and after the course. They'll also be presented with a Certificate of Achievement for successfully completing the course and a prompt card summarising the key concepts.
'But is it really worth it? How do I know this is a wise investment?'
Using the techniques you learn in the Brainpower Business Writing course, you'll be able to increase the clarity, effectiveness and persuasiveness of every written communication you produce at work.
That’s a significant productivity boost, when you think about how much of your work day you devote to writing or typing reports, proposals, instructions and e-mails.
You'll be able to express instructions with greater clarity, using fewer words saving you time and avoiding confusion and misunderstanding.
Your proposals or sales documents will come across with more persuasive force.
Your ability to handle e-mail communications quickly and professionally will save you time and help you get more done.
These improvements can add up to thousands of dollars worth of increased productivity in the course of a year. Your investment in a Business Writing course is easily justified.
'Act now to master the skills of clear, persuasive writing'
Don't wait to accelerate your organisations success. Enroll your team now so your organisation can start communicating more clearly and persuasively.
No Risk Guarantee
You have peace of mind knowing you are not only getting great value for money, but also results that positively impact performance.
Our guarantee is simply this:
If you are not 100% happy and delighted with your workshop, we will either refund the difference between what you paid to what you think it was worth or we'll continue to work with you for free until you achieve the outcomes you reasonably expected.
Any Questions?
You'll find the answers to most of your questions on the Frequently Asked Questions page.
If you can't find what you're looking for, please contact us and our Support Team will respond to your enquiry with priority.