Overview

Writing skills are important in ensuring that your ideas, plans and proposals can be captured in an engaging and effective manner to influence your colleagues and superiors; capture important information; aid decision making and drive necessary actions within your organization. Many professionals and mangers struggle with communicating effectively in writing and this causes significant man-hour losses due to continuous writing, re-writing, correcting and editing.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explore some of the typical challenges that professionals have with business writing and identify principles and strategies that will help you overcome these challenges;
• Use writing prompts and mid-mapping to design effective written messages;
• Improve their use of the English Language by practicing various areas of punctuation, sentence correction, grammar rules and tenses;
• Identify and apply useful protocols in e-mail etiquette;
• Improve their writing by paying attention to clarity, tone, and purpose; and
• Practice developing a variety of business writing messages with a number of templates for letters, reports, memos and minutes of meetings.

Content

• Overview of Writing Skills
• Tools for Analytical Writing
• Mind Your Language
• Enhancing Your Writing
• Emails
• Writing Practice

Course Delivery:

• Video Lectures
• Case Studies
• Interactive Activities
• Games
• Project-based Learning