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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

Find out more about our training approach

For a pdf of our company brochure, click here

Understand our quality process for customising

Brainpower training has a unique way of tailoring our programs to your people and the situations they face.

1. Diagnostic Conversation TM

We can have a structured conversation over the phone about your training needs,asking you some questions that are usually easy to answer.

There's no obligation, but if you do decide to go ahead, we can forward this info to our Facilitator as your 'brief', describing your specific learning and business-related outcomes.

This process is useful to do even before you decide which training provider tomove forward with. During this discussion you can judge if our course content matches what you are looking for and whether we are the right cultural fit for your organisation.

2. Scenarios
Once your course is confirmed, we send our ‘Scenarios' e-mail for you to forward to your people requesting them to send in short situations or dilemmas they may experience in the workplace relevant to the topic.

Alternatively, you can simply come up with 5 or 6 that are representative.

3. Pre-call
In addition, our experienced and qualified Facilitator will contact you by phone prior to the workshop to confirm logistics and what you'd like emphasised or focused on.

4. Video-based post-course coaching with bite-size, one or two-minute, quick web video. (Report Writing has 5 video tips.)

What do people say about our Report Writing workshop?

‘Thank you for presenting Report Writing’ to our company recently. I’ve noticed a marked improvement in our team’s writing, which saves me time. I no longer have to spend as much time being a proof-reader, checking and correcting their mistakes.

Attendees commented to me it was by far the best training they attended over the past several years and were eager to have more of them.’

Laurent Fresnel, Consulting Manager, Hostworks

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