Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
Improving the flow of information in your business is critical in the current business climate. Documents that require clarification increase costs and lengthen timelines, reducing organisational efficiency. Getting your point across quickly and easily enables readers to act swiftly on the information received, increasing the likelihood of the organisation getting the desired results.
In this course, you develop effective writing skills to deliver documents that convey information to fellow professionals and stakeholders. Through practical hands-on exercises, you create compelling and powerful documents.
All tools, document templates, and examples used in this course are given to the delegates to guide them back in the workplace..
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
• Use the POWER process – an end-to-end writing process that allows you to project manage and accelerate your writing
• Focus on your own and your readers’ objectives to achieve your desired outcome
• Identify the readers for your documents and tailor documents to their needs
• Use the pyramid principle of document construction to deliver information at the right level for the right • readers
• Prototype your document to identify key topics and potential missing information before doing the bulk of your writing
• Persuade your readers to keep reading even if they are not engaged with the subject
• Strengthen your personal writing style
• Edit and revise for clarity, and concision
Course Content
Creating Effective Writing
• Why people write ineffectively
– Types of writing
– The principal cause of ineffective writing
• The POWER Process
– Using an end-to-end writing process
– Approximate timing for a writing project
– Tool: POWER Process Time Planner
– Benefits for the writer, the organization and the reader
• Identifying objectives
– Recognizing your and the reader’s objective
– Clarifying your objective
– The value of clear objectives
• Who are your readers?
– Reader analysis:
-Level of knowledge
– Communication styles
– VAK styles
– Identifying your blind spot
– Addressing differing communication styles in your writing