REPORT & PROPOSAL WRITING/CRUCIAL COMMUNICATIONS

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Live-Online Training: N 155,000
Classroom Training: N 195,000
3 - 4 participants: 5% discount
5 or more participants: 10% discount

(Available also for Customised Training by Duration, Venue & Fee)

Programme Description

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
  • Organize 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

Develop Correct Writing Skills

  • Do the ground work and get to the maximum point
  • Writing inertia and how to overcome it
  • Essence of effective writing
  • The Communication Process
  • Elements of Crucial Communication

Common Writing Problems

  • Common errors in the use of English by Nigerians
  • Word usage
  • Improving your vocabulary

Your Attitudes as a Writer

  • Simplicity and conciseness
  • Confused words
  • Effect of Culture on language use

Formatting Your Writing

  • Style and tone

Prewriting & Planning

  • Establishing purpose
  • Clarifying readership
  • Researching for facts.

Doing the Writing

  • Word usage
  • Common errors in our use of English by Nigerians
  • Word economy.

DAY TWO

Attention to Grammar

  • Verb exercises
  • Passive and Active Verbs
  • Noun and pronoun exercises
  • Spellings
  • Punctuations
  • 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.

Memos

  • General principles guiding Memo writing
  • In-house styles.

DAY THREE

Reports - the Purpose

  • Informing
  • Selling
  • Persuading
  • Instructing
  • Advising
  • Explaining
    • an Analysis
    • a Research outcome
    • an Information
    • an Experience.

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 the Report

  • 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 & Formats
    • chronology
    • functionality.
  • Outlining, drafting and revising techniques
  • Proofing and Editing what you write.

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

  • A Simple Proposal Format
  • Corporate Level Proposals
  • RFP – a Request for Proposal
  • Proposal Strategy
  • Proposal planning
  • Private sector proposal
  • Proposal Strategy
  • Public sector Expression of Interest (EOI)
  • International Grants/Funding Proposal
  • A format for Technical proposal
  • A format for Financial proposal
  • Other Approaches to Writing a Proposal
  • Project proposal

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.
Date & Time
Monday
July 8, 2024
Start - 8:30 AM
Friday
July 12, 2024
End - 3:00 PM Africa/Lagos
Location

Tom Associates Training

5/7, Alade Lawal Street, Opposite Anthony Police Station, Off Ikorodu Road, Anthony Village,
NG-LA
Nigeria
+234 817 859 1654
+234 809 276 3968 | +234 810 365 2225
tomassociatestraining@yahoo.com | info@tomassociatesng.com
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Tom Associates Training

+234 817 859 1654
+234 809 276 3968 | +234 810 365 2225
tomassociatestraining@yahoo.com | info@tomassociatesng.com