Report Writing – TL

About

This course can be run for individuals or for teams of people

The course can be tailored to meet specific requirements. Call us to discuss your needs if you or your team wish to include some different or additional topics within your course.

How will I benefit from this course?

People who are effective at report writing have a built-in business and career advantage. Being able to produce reports which enable conclusions to be drawn is a valuable business talent which we can help you to achieve. You will learn how to describe complex information simply, and apply reasoning and logic to your analysis.  In particular, you will be able to:

• Define situations
• Analyse information
• Produce options
• Make recommendations
• Match your report to your audience

Who should attend?

Our report writing course is aimed at anyone who wishes to write highly readable business reports.

Outline of programme

Overview

• The purpose and value of reports
• Types of written reports
• What is a good report?

Clarifying objectives

• Terms of reference
• Defining the scope
• What do you expect of the reader?

Research

• Information sources
• Reference views

Planning

• Preparing the structure
• Applying a method to ensure all necessary information is included
• Content mapping
• Information hierarchy, reasoning and logic

Constructing your case

• Situation definition
• Approach
• Analysis
• Options
• Recommendations

Executive summary

• How to write a compelling executive summary

Style and tone

• Ensuring the appropriate style and tone
• Illustrations, revisions, and use of colour

Editing

• How to improve your draft
• Proofreading