COURSES > POLICY & PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Effective Report Writing
Making Every Word Count
Chaired by
Sue Calthorpe
Available Dates
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12 March, 2024
09:25 - 16:15
Virtual Using Zoom
3 Spaces Left
9 July, 2024
09:25 - 16:15
Virtual Using Zoom
Limited Places Available
3 December, 2024
09:25 - 16:15
Virtual Using Zoom
Limited Places Available
Overview
Do you need to write reports with value rather than volume? Condense lengthy documents into a short summary? Make yourself understood to a wide range of readers with varying levels of knowledge?
Our Effective Report Writing course is designed to help you produce excellent and efficient reports for today’s ever-changing workplace, helping you write quickly, accurately and clearly.
Work through expert-led practical exercises to learn how to better plan, structure and edit reports with effective editing and layout methods.
Leave the day with techniques that will improve your written communication skills and enable you to produce more engaging reports that achieve your aims.
Media & Communications Specialist
Susan works with organisations and individuals to improve their written communications skills.
She worked as a regional and national newspaper journalist before setting up a full-service communications company, now established for 30 years.
She works with public and private sector organisations to help with:
Effective emails
Report writing
Briefings and submissions
Persuasive and influential writing techniques
Promotional writing
Effective complaint handling
Communicating complex information for non-technical readers.
Her recent clients include Legal & General, HSBC, BRIT, the Law ...
Sue Calthorpe
Learning Outcomes
Practise effective report editing techniques
Effectively organise information within the report
Learn how to plan and structure an engaging report
Gain methods to present data and enhance the impact of your report
Develop a persuasive writing style to put forward a clear, convincing case
All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified,
with signed certificates available upon request for event.
Enquire About In-House Training
To speak to someone about a bespoke training programme, please contact us:
0800 542 9414
InHouse@moderngov.com
Agenda
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives
10:00 - 10:30 The Basics of Effective Report Writing
The POWER principles
How to understand the reader
Learn to produce a hierarchy of information for different readers
10:30 - 11:15 Report Writing Workshop I: Planning
Discover planning tools and frameworks
Develop techniques to help you identify relevant purpose and content
11:15 - 11:30 Morning Break
11:30 - 12:15 Report Writing Workshop II: Organising Information
Learn how to effectively present information
Understand how to group different types of information
Gain best practice techniques to focus on value, not volume of information
Discuss reading patterns on paper and on screen to decide on the best layout for your work
12:15 - 12:45 Workshop III: Writing
A practical exercise in rewording and reordering
Providing feedback – a practical exercise in how to give and receive constructive, objective advice
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:45 Report Writing Workshop IV: Editing Reports
Learn the most effective and ruthless editing techniques
Using real life materials, edit a document and create an effective summary
14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:00 Report Writing Workshop V: Reviewing Real-Life Materials
Embed the day’s learning – review real-life examples to quality assure them by using criteria discussed during the course
16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close
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