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Bespoke Training: Effective Report Writing

Making Every Word Count

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 and need from the documents you write?

Effective Report Writing is designed to help you and your teams produce excellent reports for today’s demanding workplace, helping you to write quickly, accurately and clearly.

This practical course will teach your teams simple techniques they can use the next day to improve written communications skills.

It focuses on helping participants produce reports that:

  • Withstand scrutiny

  • Can be understood by multiple audiences

  • Give the reader confidence and help build your personal credibility

Run this Producing Effective Reports course for your team In-House and leave with the techniques and skills to create effective reports for your organisation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learn how to plan and structure an engaging report

  • Effectively organise information within the report

  • Discover ways of presenting data to enhance the impact of your report

  • Develop a persuasive writing style to put forward a clear, convincing case

  • Practise effective report editing techniques



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

09:45 - 10:30 The Basics of Effective Report Writing

  • Understanding the reader

  • The POWER principles

  • Producing 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

  • Understand how to group different types of information

  • Learn how to effectively present information

  • Discuss reading patterns on paper and on-screen to decide on the best layout for your work

  • Gain best practice techniques to focus on value not the volume of information

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 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 16:00 Report Writing Workshop IV: Editing Reports

  • Learn the most effective and ruthless editing techniques

  • Using real-life materials, delegates will edit a document and create an effective summary

Report Writing Workshop V: Reviewing Real-Life Materials

  • To embed today’s learning, participants will review real-life reports to quality assure them using some criteria discussed during the day’s course

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation & Close

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