Writing Skills: Write for Results

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Course Overview

Write for Results will dramatically improve your writing to inform, influence and persuade. You will learn modern business English rules as well as layout best practice and the basics of emails, reports and letters. The course concentrates on getting your key message across and being aware of the results you want your communication to have. This focus helps you achieve clarity, brevity and impact in your communication.

This workshop is built around a series of practical exercises designed to help delegates develop and consolidate writing skills in a safe and supportive environment. Delegates will learn to self-critique, and will receive constructive feedback on their work throughout the workshops.

People will understand you and respond more positively to you. You will encounter less resistance and frustration with your ideas. Being able to express yourself clearly and in the correct way will change the way you are seen and if research is anything to go by: will do more for your promotion prospects than any technical skill you could learn.

Audience

This entry level course will suit all those wanting to improve the standard of their written English as well as those needing to improve the impact they make by creating clearer more professional messages, reports and letters.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Recognise what the key elements of communication are
• Recognise the mistakes that stop them being understood
• Understand what others want from them
• Develop their writing skills - for both documents and emails
• Identify and meet the needs of their readers
• Create structure for their messages for maximum effect
• Have the ability to choose language and style that will achieve greater success in informing, influencing and persuading others

Writing Skills: Write for Results / WFR