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Reports and Proposals Writing
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Instructor Led |
Overview: |
| This two-day workshop introduces the skills that you need to produce reports and proposals that are consistent, concise, sharply focused and easy to understand. We look at the process you need to follow to create a report or proposal. Other topics include structuring your report or proposal so that people can get your message easily.
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Target Audience: |
| This course is ideal for anyone who needs to write persuasively, including:
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- Account representatives and managers
- Business or systems analysts
- Technical specialists
- Consultants
- Sales and marketing professionals
- Executive assistants and PAs
- Researchers
- Financial analysts
- Auditors
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Key Participant Benefits: |
- Helps participants to understand themselves and others better so as to adapt to audience needs
- Creates a professional individual image through basic grammar and sentence construction
- Allows individuals to accomplish greater productivity in writing through following a structured process
- Gives facilitated practice time on both reports and proposals
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Key Business Benefits |
- Presents a better business image to customers to retain existing business
- Boosts an individual’s productivity through time saving
- Saves the time of managers by not having to correct and re-write as well as the time of recipients, through easier readership and understanding
- Increases revenue potential through better proposal writing
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| Lesson 1: Getting started |
- Writing well
- Consistency
- Following a writing process
- Document types
- Writing tone
- Document length
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| Lesson 2: Planning your reports and proposals |
- Writing an objective
- Gathering information
- Report structures
- Proposal structures
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| Lesson 3: Writing your reports and proposals |
- Grammar basics
- Sentences
- Paragraphs
- Words
- Persuasive techniques
- Formatting techniques
- Visual styles
- Numbers
- Lists
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| Lesson 4: Formatting techniques |
- Visual styles
- Numbers
- Lists
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| Lesson 6: Polishing techniques |
- Editing
- Readability
- Covering letter
- Follow-on courses
- Editing and Proofreading
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