Learn to plan, organise, write and edit reports, that can both represent your organisation and serve as positive decisionmaking tools in your business process.
Who should attend?:
The programme is recommended for all professionals who write reports. It will assist delegates when putting facts, ideas, recommendations and other concepts into a report format.
What will I learn?:
The course objectives are:
To give delegates an awareness of, and practice in, the cognitive skills which ensure good reports
To persuade delegates of the effectiveness of user-friendly business English and to review the principles of putting complex concepts into writing which can be easily understood by second language users.
To polish creativity and deductive reasoning and apply these to planning, structuring, writing and editing reports
To build confidence and competence through practical exercises in report writing and to consolidate this with on-going feedback
Course outline:
Objectives - setting criteria, standards and direction
Applying the mind to the matter: getting thought processes to higher conceptual levels
Analytical thought - rigorous categorisation and structuring
Logical, sequential thinking and deductive reasoning
Creativity: powerful divergent thinking
A project management approach to the reporting process: reports on time, on brief and on budget
Investigative reports
Polishing: tone, language, structure, layout factors etc
Informative and evaluative reports
The unloading rate of a document
English in the global village: clear, understandable language as a business tool
Understanding good grammar, punctuation and sentence construction
The importance of editing
Tone, language and layout to formal reports
Date: 26 January 2010
Venue: Benvenuto Conference Centre, Johannesburg
Cost: R 2 250.00 + VAT p/p
