Professional Writing Skills for Managers
Course Ref: CO1

Should I attend this course?
Would you like to improve the quality of your reports, emails or other written communications? Would you like to make them more incisive, persuasive, or simply easier for the reader to digest? If so, this course will provide you with some tools and techniques which will start to make a difference immediately.

Writing in the realm of business often requires quite different skills to those we learned in school. This course provides a refresher on those essential skills. It then goes on to explain how to take them to the next level in order to write fresh, inspiring, and informative yet concise and professional business communications.

In this highly practical course, you will have the opportunity to both analyse and compose written communications, and you will receive constructive feedback on your skills.

What will I learn?
After attending this course, you will be able to:

• Define your objectives and plan how to reach them effectively in your writing
• Consider the needs of your audience and tailor your style and format to them
• Select the most appropriate type and structure of communication to use in a given scenario
• Use tools and techniques to develop a lively and involving style of writing
• Ensure that your writing is clear and grammatically correct
• Analyse and edit your own work

What does the course cover?

• What are the essentials of
      Sentence and paragraph structure
      Punctuation
      Grammar
      Plain English
• How should I analyse the objectives of my writing?
• How can I gain insight into what my reader needs from me?
• How can I identify the key issues I need to cover?
• What different types and structures of written communication are available to me?
• How can I decide the most appropriate format to use?
• What are the best ways to open and close a piece of writing?
• How can I structure my argument logically?
• What techniques can I use to give my prose a more vibrant style and pace?
• Why is it important to review and edit my work?

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