Effective Report writing
An essential aspect of communication is writing clear, concise, targeted and persuasive text. Achieving the needed results from your e-mails, reports, proposals, recommendation reports, and other business documents depends on your ability to grab your audience’s attention and persuade them to act on your ideas. In this course, you develop effective report writing skills that convey a credible message and project a professional image. Through practical hands-on exercises, you create compelling and powerful business reports and other documents.
· Consider the data needed to start a report with
· Identify ways to improve your current practices in report writing
· The 7 C’s in business writing
· The right approach for reporting various situations
· Using graphics properly in reports
· Content management for reports and coherence in writing
· Why Reporting
· Types of Reports
· Planning for Report writing
· Gathering Information
· Practice work: Preparing a work plan for the report
· Planning Informative Reports
· Organizational Strategies for Informative Reports
· Planning Analytical Reports
· Organizational strategies for analytical reports
· Drafting report content
· Report Introduction and body
· (Practice work: Writing the introduction part for the report)
· Using technology to craft reports
· Placing Graphics in the Report
· Constructing textual graphics
· Some general types of Short Reports
· (Practice work: Writing body of the report)
· Direct and indirect approach to writing
· The 7 C’s in writing
· The “You” approach in report writing
· The art of proof reading
· Packaging ethics for reports Oral, telephonic and email reporting hints and ethics
This workshop is necessary for any level of NGO management, team leaders, NGO directors, CEOs, board members, business owners, and project manager. It also helps Consultants, and freelancers.