Writing Reports and Proposals

Chartered Management Institute
London, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' An effective report or proposal is one which achieves its objectives ¨C whether those objectives are to inform, persuade, win business, make recommendations or help the management decision-making process. Unfortunately many writers lose sight of their objectives, fail to include the relevant information or fail to structure their documents to make relevance and significance clear. They may also lose their readers¡¯ attention by adopting a turgid style or peppering their documents with spelling, grammar and proofreading errors.

This course has been designed to help anyone who has to write complex reports and proposals enhance their effectiveness and ensure that they are ¡®reader-friendly¡¯.

Course Membership

All managers and professionals who write complex reports or proposals

Secretarial and other staff who have to edit and improve draft reports/proposals

Course Objectives
This course will help participants to:

produce well-structured and professionally presented reports and proposals that meet their defined objectives
identify and address readers¡¯ needs
use clear and concise language and select appropriate styles of English
adopt a structured approach to the writing process and schedule their time accordingly
Course Outline
Topics cover include:

Understanding the reader¡¯s needs
Scheduling the writing process
Techniques for getting started - brainstorming and visual mapping
Collecting and selecting the information
Structuring the report/proposal
Making and supporting a case
Layout devices and conventions
Style and tone
Sentence and paragraph structure
Choosing the right words
Readability statistics
Grammar, spelling and punctuation
Presenting facts and figures in interesting and memorable ways
Proofreading and editing
The course also reviews helpful MS Word tools such as style headings, outline view, document maps, track changes, split screen etc.
Course Methods

The programme is informal and interactive. Participants are asked to bring samples of their own materiel allowing them to relate principles to their own writing and identify specific ways of enhancing its effectiveness for the future

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Phone:+44 (0)20 7497 0580

School Address:

Management House
Cottingham Road
Corby
Northamptonshire
NN17 1TT

3rd Floor
2 Savoy Court
Strand
London
WC2R 0EZ

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