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Don't waste your audience's time: Be clear, concise, complete and confident in your communications.

Most technical professionals avoided writing classes but now find that to succeed, they must be able to put their ideas and information in writing. Emails, reports, proposals, recommendations, and business cases are still the most effective way we deliver information. How you communicate is what will differentiate you and your organization from your competition.

Course Objectives:

• Create a confident image by sharpening writing style
• Develop a clear, concise and complete writing style
• Identify and focus the reader's attention on the main message
• Understand the purpose for communicating  (informative vs persuasive)
• Differentiate between "need to know" and "nice to know" information
• Use the Active Voice to make your information easier to understand
• Write effective email
• Use acronyms and abbreviations correctly
• Create a personal, professional and comfortable tone
• Write short reports – incident, field trip, inspections, progress and project completion
• Eliminate wordy expressions
• Write reports for multiple-audience readers with different levels of subject knowledge
• Organize and write longer reports
• Write justifications, investigations, and recommendations
• Write procedures and instructions
• Write short proposals to convey an idea, suggestion, or change report
• Structure proposals of varying lengths
• Write an effective executive summary
• Use Information Design techniques to increase the readability of a report

In addition to a comprehensive 100-page course handbook, participants will receive personal feedback on three writing assignments and experience group and individual exercises.

Key Details to Know

This highly interactive webinar series involves 9 hours of instruction and 3 hours of independent practical exercises. We use breakout rooms for group discussions and exercises, polls, chat, and Q&A to engage participants and obtain feedback during the sessions.

Course Instructor: Lisa Moretto

Total Hours: 9 hours of instruction and 3 hours of independent exercises 

Sessions: 6 sessions, 1.5 hours each, spread over 3 weeks

Monday, November 29th, 2021

Wednesday December 1st, 2021

Monday, December 6th, 2021

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Monday December 13th, 2021

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021

Time:

11:00am to 12:30pm

Member Pricing:

$770

Non-member Pricing:

$1100

  
 
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If you do not wish to be photographed/filmed, please contact us at info@biomb.ca