Essential Business Communication

Provide Skill and knowledge that would enable the candidate to be able to facilitate communication between the community and the council, including:

• Read and consider the agenda and reports before meetings and be able to constructively take part in debates.

• Critically analyse texts produced for a range of purposes, audiences and contexts

• Identify and explain the values, attitudes and assumptions in texts

• Evaluate the effects of content, language and style on readers'/viewers' responses in specific texts.

• Write/sign for a specified audience and purpose

• Use language structures and features to produce coherent and cohesive texts for a wide range of contexts

• Draft own writing/signing and edit to improve clarity and correctness

• Relating the purpose, content, form, frequency and recipients of a range of reports to the information needs of a selected business

• Identifying information sources and organizational procedures for obtaining and distributing information relevant to a selected business function.

• Compiling reports related to a selected business function, ensuring content and format are appropriate to information requirements and that reporting deadlines are met

• Liaising with relevant parties and verifying that reported information is in accordance with requirements and purpose of the report.