Effective Business Writing
Business Writing Training Benefits & Deliverables:
- Better identify your audience and tailor your message to them with effective business writing training
- Eliminate redundancy and excess phrases for clear, concise writing
- Organize your facts and ideas more effectively
- Choose the words and phrases that get the results you want with effective business writing training
- Overcome the fear of the blank page and learn how to start more effectively
- Clarify your communication so your readers understand your message
- Correctly use jargon and abbreviation with effective business writing training
- Say more with less to get your message across – become more succinct
- Set up a letter and edit it to perfection
- Hold interest by using appropriate punctuation, sentence length & structure
- Create memos that clearly indicate your purpose with effective business writing training
- Write clear and concise reports and proposals
- Write more effective e-mails with effective business writing training
- Write better letters that are understood by your reader
Course Outline:
I. Business Writing Overview
- Review the basics of business writing
- Understand today’s readers
- Identify what motivates people to read
- Learn how to better clarify your thoughts and ideas
- Discover how to overcome ‘writer’s block’
- Vary your sentence length and structure
- Highlight key ideas more effectively
II. Write Letters & Memos that Get Results
- Organize letters and memos more logically and effectively
- Convey a more effective tone
- Design your page effectively
- Put more impact into your sentence structure
- Reduce unnecessary details
- Summarize your ideas more succinctly
- Apply time management techniques to your writing
- Proofread more successfully
III. Write More Powerful Emails
- Organize your purpose and your thoughts more clearly
- Command attention with clearer subject lines
- Tighten your message to a single screen
- Manage e-mail etiquette with common-sense courtesy
- Structure emails to persuade, inform, and solve problems
- Learn how to put key ideas up front
IV. Write Reports and Proposals that get Action
- Organize ideas into an effective report format
- Design stronger paragraphs to get your points across
- Tighten reports and proposals so you don’t ‘lose’ your reader
- Use graphic elements more effectively
- Choose an effective format for proposals
- Learn techniques to sell and persuade your readers
- Better present the sequence of your ideas
- Write more effective ‘call to action’ summaries in reports and proposals
- Edit, proofread and rewrite more quickly
