Course Outline
Pre-Requisites
We highly recommend to bring a laptop to class should you prefer working on your device or bring an external drive if you wish to save the documents that will be completed during the in-class exercises.
Lessons
- Write clear, concise, and organized emails
- Write well-structured briefs and reports
- Identify the characteristics of a well-written proposal
- Select the most appropriate modality for your message
- Apply best practices and grammar rules to your writing
- Assess audience needs
- Plan content based on scenarios
- Build effective sentences and turn them into paragraphs
- Peer review/proofread documents
OUTLINE
2. Apply Best Practices
- Business writing
- Business style
- Business writing best practices
- 6 Cs
- The writing process
- Planning your message
- Setting a communication objective
- Assessing your audience
- The path to understanding
- Analyzing your audience
- Identifying stakeholder needs and preferences
- Planning your message
- Structure
- Language conventions
- Grammar basics
- Misplaced modifiers
- Punctuation
- Capitalization
- Structuring sentences
- Transitions
- Structuring paragraphs
- Word choice
- Usage
- Literally
- Meaning and connotation
- Words to use carefully
- Active vs. passive voice
- Bullets vs. numbering
- Trim your writing
- Project updates
- Writer's block
- Announcements
- Formal vs. informal writing
- Tone
- Delivering bad news
- Sources of conflict
- Writing in conflict situations
- Managing conflict
- Proposals
- Evidence-based support
- Elements of a proposal
- Business communication modalities
- Reports
- Elements of a report
- Exec summaries
This course qualifies you for the following PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs):
Total = 14ÂLeadership = 4Strategic and Business Management = 10
Cancellation Policy
We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted. Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.
Training Location
Online Classroom
your office
your city,
your province
your country
I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from the capturing of what was presented as it was 5-6 hours of watching a screen before getting to the actual labs. There has to be a better way to lay out this particular course. In my previous course, the lectures were broken up by labs which worked out fantastic and kept you engaged in the course. There were days when in order to actually complete the labs, would go over the 9PM day end time frame. Was able to get the primary labs done, but if you want to get all the content completed, you cannot complete it in the window of this course, you will need to come back on your own time.