Course description
Essential Writing Skills - In-House Course
This in-house workshop provides participants with the techniques to ensure that every document they they write is able to meet its desired objective. Attendees will be able to become more effective and focused in their work by being able to reduce the time spent on drafting and re-editing.
The one-day workshop will cover all the techniques essential for improving written communications. Participants may bring in their current work (such as a submission for ministers, letters to the public, or simple emails) so that they can review their own approaches in comparison to the techniques explained during the workshop and get expert advice.
By attending this in-house workshop, participants will attain a greater understanding of how to:
- Achieve common understanding between writer and reader with the minimum number of exchanges
- Get everything right at the very first attempt – content, structure and style
- Understand how to get to the point at the beginning
- Encourage precisely the response they intend
- Avoid details that is confusing or is irrelevant
- Project the corporate image appropriately
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This in-house course is suitable for any professional looking for improved skills in producing clear, effective written documents.
Training Course Content
This course is typically structured as follows:
- Introducing the 5 steps to fluency
- Step 1: Getting started - the basic structure
- Step 2: Style and Tone - short, simple, polite
- Step 3: Making requests and getting your intended response - being persuasive
- Step 4: Enhancing the basic structure
- Step 5: Accuracy - proofreading and presentation
Expenses
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Dods Training - Communication, Personal Development, Policy & Government Training
Part of the wider Dods Group, Dods Training is a primary private sector provider of professional development programmes on policy, Government, Parliament and the soft skills needed for those working in these areas, including communication, writing, confidence-building and personal efficiency....