Business report writing course from Tony Atherton Training - Courses in Business Writing, Report Writing, Taking Minutes, Negotiation Skills and Time Management

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Report Writing Training Course - 1-day in company

BUSINESS REPORT WRITING TRAINING

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COURSE AIM - Business Report Writing Training Course, 1 day

To help delegates to write reports that are clear, concise and easy for readers to understand. It covers the principles of preparing, writing and editing business reports.

Report writing is difficult but writing a good business report can be made easier. This one-day course is normally run at your premises for between 3 and 12 delegates. It will also help delegates when writing other types of document. Organisational benefits include having business reports that are easier and quicker to read and understand, and that lead to faster decisions and therefore financial savings.

COURSE CONTENT - Report Writing Training Course, 1 day

  • How to write a business report
  • What makes a business report good?
  • A process for report writing: planning reports, writing reports, editing reports
  • Planning
  • Defining the purpose, agreeing the terms of reference
  • Knowing your reader and writing for the reader
  • Formatting and structuring business reports and their content
  • Writing, using plain English in report writing
  • Editing reports: editing for accuracy, brevity and clarity
  • Active or passive voice; preferring verbs to nouns
  • Writers' tips and some common myths
  • Punctuation problems
  • Using MS Word's readability statistics
  • The feedback [on the Report Writing training course] is very encouraging and I would like to arrange another session with Tony later.'
  • I was very impressed and found my facilitator to be very approachable. A job well done!
  • Excellent course. I think I will definitely put into practice immediately.
  • Great trainer. Kept my attention all day.

COURSE DESCRIPTION - Business Report Writing Course

REPORT WRITING: INTRODUCTION

  • What types of report do you write?
  • What do you like or dislike about report writing?
  • What makes the difference between a good and a bad report writing?
  • How to write a report - the three stages of report writing: Preparing, Writing and Editing.

REPORT WRITING: PLANNING YOUR REPORT

  • Defining the purpose or objective of your report.
  • Who has requested the report? Terms of reference.
  • Who are your readers?
  • How much detail will be needed to achieve the objective?
  • What do you want your readers to know and do, how do you want them to feel?
  • Planning your report writing.
  • Sections and sub-sections. Summary, Introduction, Main Body, etc.
  • Structuring complex information when report writing.
  • Structuring your argument or process. Generic frameworks.
  • Writing a beginning, a middle and an end for your report.
  • Structuring the text down to paragraph level.
  • Your Plan.

REPORT WRITING: WRITING YOUR REPORT

  • Going from plan to draft.
  • The order in which to write your report's sections.
  • Determining style.
  • Using short paragraphs and sentences.
  • Using appropriate words and jargon; plain English.
  • Using pronouns or not, bullet points, numbering systems and references.
  • Using appendices.

REPORT WRITING: EDITING YOUR REPORT

  • Going from writing the draft to the finished report.
  • Editing for accuracy, brevity and clarity.
  • Eliminating waffle, superfluous words, and wordy phrases.
  • Improving the grammar.
  • Passive verbs, 'hidden' verbs, subject-verb agreement, some troublesome points of grammar
  • Using the readability statistics.
  • Punctuation, reference list.

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Tony Atherton has presented report writing training courses to many organisations including: Actavis/Alpharma, Barclaycard, Baxter, Centrica, Inland Revenue, Littlewoods, Millennium Commission, National Lottery, Nestle, Occular Sciences, Pfizer, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scott Wilson, etc. He also presents the Report Writing for Business course for Reed Training in London and Birmingham.

 

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Business Report Writing course details: Last updated 22 August 2008