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Report and Proposal Writing/Crucial Communications Course
NGN 155,000
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Venue: 5/7 Alade Lawal Street, Off Ikorodu Road, Anthony Village, Lagos.
For effectiveness in business communications, this course focuses on making managers to:
- Become highly skilled in the use of English Language
- Write memos, letters, reports, proposals excellently by presenting contents with mechanical precision
- Organise thoughts clearly before writing
- Know the techniques of outlining, drafting and revising written messages
- Practice writing reports with graphical presentation of data
- Prepare proposals with project management value proposition
- Pay attention to spellings and punctuations.
Course Contents
Day One
Writing Guidelines
- Essence of effective business writing
- Planning the writing
- Organizing thought before writing.
Prewriting and Planning
- Establishing purpose
- Clarifying readership
- Researching for facts.
Doing the Writing
- Word usage
- Common errors in our use of English by Nigerians
- Word economy.
The Business Writer’s Attitudes
- Simplicity and conciseness
- Confused words
- Outdated expressions
- Opinion words and expressions
- Look-alike words.
Common Writing Problems
- Problem with Clichés
- Parallelism problems
- Misplaced modifiers
- British v. American English.
Day Two
Attention to Grammar
- Verb exercises
- Noun and pronoun exercises
- Spellings
- Punctuations
- Editing techniques
- Formatting the Writing
- Style and tone
- Paragraphs
- Headings.
Letters
- Salutation
- Body of letter
- Complimentary closure.
Email Guidelines
- The recipients
- Keeping it short
- File attachments
- Plain texts.
Writing Minutes of Meetings
- Minutes - what it is, what it is not
- The Importance of Minutes
- Types of Minutes
- Minutes Format
- Steps to Effective Minutes
- Qualities of Good Minutes.
Day Three
Types of Report
- Information/investigation report
- Progress Report
- Formal Reports
- Informal Reports
- SOPADA formula
- The “Need-to-know” v. “Nice-to-know” reports
- Executive Summary:
- The Purpose of an Executive Summary
- Main Stages and Techniques of Summarization
- Types of Summaries
- Qualities of an Effective Executive Summary
Writing Minutes of Meetings
- Minutes – what it is, what it is not
- The Importance of Minutes
- Types of Minutes
- Minutes Format
- Steps to Effective Minutes
- Qualities of Good Minutes.
Types of Report
- Formal
- Informal
- Technical
- Commercial.
The Purpose of Business Reports
- Inform
- Explain
- Sell
- Persuade
- Instruct
- Advise
- Explain
- A Research outcome
- An Information
- An Experience.
- An Analysis
Planning the Report
- Establishing purpose
- Establishing readership
- Researching customer needs
- Planning, Writing and Editing
- Focusing on subject matter.
Writing the Report
- The “Need-to-know” vs “Nice-to-know” information
- Organizing thoughts clearly before writing.
- Selection of the most appropriate main message
- Structure
Introduction
- Body of report
- References
- Bibliography (as necessary)
- Appendices (as necessary).
Contents and Form
- Chronology
- Functionality
- Outlining, drafting and revising techniques.
Packaging the Report - Data reporting and conversion to graphs
- Data analysis
- Applications of Excel formats
- Graphic presentations
- Bar Chart
- Pie Chart
- Line Chart
- Frequency Distribution
- Frequency Polygon
- Scatter Diagram
Day Four
Proposals Outline
- Our Understanding of your requirements
- Our Point of View
- The Proposed Project
- Objective and Scope - Objectives, Covered Areas, Minimizing risks that could hinder successful completion of project
- Methodology - Integration and linkage between various components of work to deliver maximum value
- Approach - Phases of Project and duration, Teaming Approach, Our requirements, Knowledge transfer
- Schedule and Releases – Rationale of Phases/releases. For example, there will be a pilot test to generate excitement and communicate success, followed by a major Release to minimize the change impact and build ownership.
- Major Work Activities
- Key Deliverables
- Resources – Resources requirements from your company and ours, their availability (full/part time) and duration on Project
- Project Team Structure
Our Value Proposition - What we have to offer:
- Operating environment
- Methodology/experiences
- Commitment
- Relevant previous work done
- Solutions tailored made for organization
- Provision of pragmatic, practical and easy to understand approaches suitable for company
- Transfer of skills and knowledge to Company’s resources.
- Fee Arrangement
- Credentials
- CVs.
Note: Available as Classroom Training as Well as Online Training
5/7 Alade Lawal Street, Off Ikorodu Road, Anthony Village, Lagos. | Dec 01 - 04 Dec, 2020 |
NGN 155,000.00 | (VAT Inclusive) |
Mr Abiodun Toki 08033019120
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