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Professional Business Writing
Knowing how to write clear, concise and effective communications is an essential workplace skill. This training course teaches you how to plan, organise and structure your writing to effectively reach your target audience.
2 Days
Overview
This short course covers a range of topics including writing better emails and letters. Professional Business Writing will help you learn how to write with impact. It will show you how to adopt persuasive business writing skills and develop habits that will improve your overall professional business writing practices.
The ability to write clearly and effectively is a critical professional skill. This hands-on, Perth based training course will show participants how to plan, organise and structure their writing to prepare business documents their readers will want to read. Using writing and editing activities, participants will learn to prepare reader-oriented documents that communicate clearly and effectively.
Who will benefit
Anyone who wants to write high-quality documents faster. Suitable for those wanting to improve, update or fine-tune their writing skills or acquire new business writing skills.
Content
- Understanding the essentials of today’s business writing
- Planning and organising written communication
- Reader focused writing
- Using the appropriate style, tone and vocabulary
- Writing and editing exercises
- Modern writing principles
- Complying with writing style guides.
Learning Outcomes
Participants should be able to:
- Plan, draft, sequence and structure written communications in various styles and formats
- Review and proofread documents for appropriate style, correct and appropriate language, structure and readability
- Apply writing styles and standards appropriate for the intended readers.
Program Requirements
If you have a laptop or a wireless web enabled device, you would benefit by bringing it along to the program.
What past course attendees say:
To become truly effective at work we must achieve a balance of our own time and the needs of the job. This course reinforces the need to take control over your behaviour and become responsible for job outcomes as well as simple processes.
Discover how to visualise and organise your thoughts quickly, communicate effectively under pressure, convey your ideas clearly and think on your feet faster. This course will teach you strategies to stay cool under pressure, enabling you to articulate and deliver your message clearly and concisely.
Master the art of clear, confident expression while remaining receptive and open to others' concerns. You will discover the psychological impact this communication method has on long-term relationships and how influential it can be in achieving agreement with others.
We do not manage time - we manage ourselves with respect to time - time is life! On this course you will learn the difference between importance and urgency and will be given tools, techniques and strategies that can be used back in the workplace to maximise the time they spend completing the tasks that matter most, whilst minimising time spent on tasks that don't.