Business Writing Essentials
Exclusive – Learn the tools and techniques to elevate your business writing skills and ensure effective communication.
Course Outline
- Write clear, concise, and organized emails
- Write well-structured briefs and reports
- Identify the characteristics of a well-written proposal
- Select the most appropriate modality for your message
- Apply best practices and grammar rules to your writing
- Assess audience needs
- Plan content based on scenarios
- Build effective sentences and turn them into paragraphs
- Peer review/proofread documents
OUTLINE
2. Apply Best Practices
- Business writing
- Business style
- Business writing best practices
- 6 Cs
- The writing process
- Planning your message
- Setting a communication objective
- Assessing your audience
- The path to understanding
- Analyzing your audience
- Identifying stakeholder needs and preferences
- Planning your message
- Structure
- Language conventions
- Grammar basics
- Misplaced modifiers
- Punctuation
- Capitalization
- Structuring sentences
- Transitions
- Structuring paragraphs
- Word choice
- Usage
- Literally
- Meaning and connotation
- Words to use carefully
- Active vs. passive voice
- Bullets vs. numbering
- Trim your writing
- Project updates
- Writer's block
- Announcements
- Formal vs. informal writing
- Tone
- Delivering bad news
- Sources of conflict
- Writing in conflict situations
- Managing conflict
- Proposals
- Evidence-based support
- Elements of a proposal
- Business communication modalities
- Reports
- Elements of a report
- Exec summaries
This course qualifies you for the following PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs):
Total = 14Leadership = 4Strategic and Business Management = 10
Training Location
Online Classroom
your office
your city,
your province
your country