Our courses are designed to provide the tools to write in an appropriate style, with delegates learning techniques and structures to write both convincingly and credibly. We focus on the purpose of the report, and needs of your reader to tailor your writing to their needs
DurationReport Writing Skills
Yellowday provides a range of report and letter writing courses which can be tailored to meet your organisation’s specific needs, from basic to advanced business report and letter writing, effective minute-taking, effective email writing, report writing for scrutiny teams, and technical report writing.
Our courses are designed to provide the tools to write in an appropriate style, with delegates learning techniques and structures to write both convincingly and credibly. We focus on the purpose of the report, and needs of your reader to tailor your writing to their needs.
There are practical exercises throughout the courses that help develop skills and test your understanding.
Programme
Report Writing Skills
A report is an exercise in persuasion.
This programme gives you the skills to write persuasive and coherent reports. It will help you organise information and – more importantly – communicate powerful ideas to support decision-making. We shall work on how to make language work for us, and how to make reports look as good as they read.
Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants will be able to:
take a constructive and creative approach to report-writing;
create persuasive arguments and clear explanations;
use data and information to support arguments;
use plain English;
use language that is appropriate to the readership;
format to attract attention (headlines, summaries, layout, graphics etc);
proofread for accuracy; and
understand key issues of grammar and punctuation.
Outline programme
Writing to communicate
What is communication?
The three golden rules of effective writing
Managing information and creating ideas
Reports as tools of management
Functions of reports
Writing for different types of reader
Time management
Planning the report
Creating a statement of purpose
Clarifying and checking the report’s message
Organising information and ideas
Constructing an outline
Control criteria
Practical exercise: preparing an outline
From outline to first draft
Essential apparatus of a report
Functions of prose; techniques of explanation and argument
Summaries and introductions
Practical work: developing the outline; identifying necessary prose techniques
Editing the report
Paragraphs, sentences and words
Plain English
Grammar and punctuation: what you need to know
Practical exercises: editing for clarity
Action Session
Delegates consider the key learning points and skills from the training day and how they will take them forward in their report writing.
Why choose Yellowday?
Yellowday provides organisations with high quality, effective training to enhance individual, team and overall business performance.
If you are looking for a good quality, reliable training service that will inform, inspire and motivate your people, then Yellowday can help.
We will take the time to understand your organisation and what you need from your training – and we’ll deliver effective training sessions that will help you achieve real results.
Here are some of the benefits our customers enjoy:
A reliable, personal and prompt service – from enquiry to delivery and beyond!
Working with a team of enthusiastic, inspiring and motivating business professionals with many years’ experience in delivering high quality training solutions
A fair pricing strategy for both in-house training and discounted open scheduled courses helps customers get the most from their training budget
A free outsourcing service – if you are short on time or resource, let us help – Yellowday has an extensive network of training partners so we are able to source a wide variety of training course subjects quickly and at competitive prices
Training needs analysis and tailoring the training to meet your needs – all provided at no extra charge (unless substantial time to carry out the work is required!)
Help with the administration at no extra charge – we are happy to help with the logistics, from organising the training venue to sending out course joining instructions
Free training evaluation summary – helping you measure your return on investment and recommending further possible areas for development
Based in Hampshire we are centrally located and are happy to work with clients across the UK and Europe
Our trainers
Enjoyable training with an experienced practitioner are two of the key ingredients needed for effective training.
When you work with Yellowday’s training consultants you work with current practitioners of all the subjects they deliver. With many years business experience working at all levels, our trainers bring a wealth of experience to bear on the issues you face in your organisation.
Our trainers have extensive experience delivering training across a broad range of public and private sector organisations. They specialise in the design and delivery of business training and coaching programmes.
All with unique training styles, they are great communicators and have lively, enthusiastic, flexible approaches that encourage and maintain interest.
Everyone at Yellowday is focused on helping people achieve their potential and realise their purpose!
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