Effective Business Writing

2 days

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Improving your writing skills enhances your productivity and effectiveness: skilled writers can produce more effective documents in less time. Better letters and proposals mean stronger relationships with your customers and better internal communication means more effective and efficient decision-making.

This course shows you how to address the needs of your readers and teaches you how to write letters, emails, and short reports that are clear, concise and persuasive. The skills learned will immediately improve the productivity of writers and their readers.

Our Approach

We recognize that people learn best by doing, and they do a lot in this course. It includes mini-lectures, small- and large-group discussions, games and lots of exercises. It is highly interactive to reinforce what is taught and includes peer editing in a non-threatening environment. Participants will have opportunities to write and revise about 100 sentences and several documents.

Follow a time-saving, four-step process

Draft quickly and easily—overcome writers’ block

Write powerful openings that draw the reader in and set the right tone

Layout your documents to improve clarity and readability

Write clear, concise sentences that positively reflect your organization’s culture and values

Motivate your reader by framing ideas as benefits

Identify and correct any grammar mistakes that erode your credibility

Use templates to structure letters and short, persuasive memos and email messages.

Anyone