Management Development
Report Writing
Course duration: 1 day
Course overview
This Report Writing Course will give participants clear guidelines for structuring and writing business reports and a better understanding of the key skills of written communication in order to write more concisely and effectively.
Who should attend
Managers, supervisors, team leaders, Admin, those who have report writing responsibilities.
Pre Work
Participants should bring samples of reports they have written or the types of reports they will be expected to produce in the future.
Course content
Programme Outline
- Welcome and Introductions
- Objectives & Agenda
- What is the benefit of writing reports?
- Report writing guidelines
- 6 Rules in report writing
- Writing the report objective
- How to write a report summary
- How to undertake the report investigation
- How to present a table of contents
- Report writing exercises for each section of the course
- How to present conclusions and recommendations
- How to present the report
Programme Methodology
Pre-work, Facilitator input, Group discussion, Group exercises, Questionnaire, Video presentation, Coaching and feedback – facilitator and peer.
Skills learned
On completion of this workshop participants will be able to:
- Identify the concepts of putting things into writing
- Follow a structured but flexible approach to the preparation and completion of reports
- Decide upon the appropriate approach, given;
- the nature of the document
- the target of the audience
- the outcomes required
- Relate the written communications model to the needs of their current job.
Certification
There is no certification for this programme.