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Half Day | Max. 24 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Learn the essentials of effective business writing
- Write shorter, clearer, more precise reports, policy documents, manuals, memos, emails
- Prepare, order and write any piece of writing that can convey information clearly and persuasively with powerful and informative sentences
- Target your writing to specific readerships
Topics Covered
- The three essential strategies of effective business writing
- The seven major elements that infuse all writing with clarity, impact and influence
- Understanding the difference between writing to inform and writing to influence or persuade: how the two may be combined
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to face
Overview
For us to write effectively and for our writing to achieve its purposes, we need to adopt a few simple strategies and follow a number of plain, easily-understood principles. Doing this enables anyone to master the skills of effective writing. It empowers them to achieve clarity, impact and influence in anything they write. Technology also allows writers to verify that their writing is achieving its purpose and may be understood easily by the target readership.
This is a half-day session that covers the essentials of effective writing in the workplace. Participants in this fast-moving, interactive yet informal workshop will learn how to develop their skills as effective writers. They will be engaged throughout the session in more than a dozen writing exercises designed to develop their skills and confidence and will finish the day by working (privately) on a substantial piece of their own writing. Participants will also take away a 40-page workbook containing the simple writing principles and techniques covered in the course.
Workshop Outcomes
- Learn the essentials of effective business writing
- Write shorter, clearer, more precise reports, policy documents, manuals, memos, emails
- Prepare, order and write any piece of writing that can convey information clearly and persuasively with powerful and informative sentences
- Target your writing to specific readerships
Topics Covered
- The three essential strategies of effective business writing
- The seven major elements that infuse all writing with clarity, impact and influence
- Understanding the difference between writing to inform and writing to influence or persuade: how the two may be combined
Who is this workshop for
Anyone within an organisation or government agency who has to write:
• reports
• briefing notes
• board submissions
• annual reports
• research papers
• business proposals
• planning submissions
• operational procedures and emails.
Handouts/materials provided
A 40-page workbook
18 separate exercise sheets
A laminated memory jogger of the workshop's main writing techniques
What to bring
Participants are encouraged to bring a piece or pieces of their own writing to work on privately.
A pen, or pencil, and notepad. A laptop is useful but not essential.
Facilitator
About the facilitator
With over forty-five years’ experience, John Harman is an accomplished, professional writer working as a ghost-writer, speechwriter, scriptwriter, writing mentor, and facilitator of both creative and straightforward writing skills for business executives and public service personnel.
John has lectured at the University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education, and the University of California Summer Schools. In Australia, he has taught for the University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, and the WA State Literature Centre. John has presented at the CPA Australia Congress 2016 & 2017 on 'Writing Readable Reports”, facilitated a series of workshops on business writing in plain English in all capital cities on behalf of Telstra, and continues to present and facilitate various workshops at many libraries and writer's groups in Perth and regional WA.
John has assisted organisations across a variety of sectors and offers training for executives and staff in implementing plain, simple English to achieve high impact and instant understanding. Just some of the major organisations John has assisted over the years include Telstra, Rio Tinto, Woodside, Wesfarmers, Stantec, GHD and Metrix. In addition, Federal Government agencies (Dept of Justice, CSIRO, NIAA), State Government (WA Parliament, Dept of Premier & Cabinet, Dept of Treasury, DFES, Dept of Health, Dept of Education, Public Transport Auth, Director of Public Prosecutions), various local government agencies, and major NGOs have also utilised John’s skills and knowledge in developing and supporting their people and business.
John’s areas of expertise include effective writing for business communication, report writing skills, presenting with confidence, improving creativity, speed reading and comprehension, fundamental grammar and punctuation basics, and effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Key Expertise
- Business Writing
- Report Writing
- Presentation Skills
- Communication Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
Industry Focus
- Government
- Not for Profit
- Higher Education
- Public Companies
- Multinationals
Based in:
About the facilitator
With over forty-five years’ experience, John Harman is an accomplished, professional writer working as a ghost-writer, speechwriter, scriptwriter, writing mentor, and facilitator of both creative and straightforward writing skills for business executives and public service personnel.
John has lectured at the University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education, and the University of California Summer Schools. In Australia, he has taught for the University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, and the WA State Literature Centre. John has presented at the CPA Australia Congress 2016 & 2017 on 'Writing Readable Reports”, facilitated a series of workshops on business writing in plain English in all capital cities on behalf of Telstra, and continues to present and facilitate various workshops at many libraries and writer's groups in Perth and regional WA.
John has assisted organisations across a variety of sectors and offers training for executives and staff in implementing plain, simple English to achieve high impact and instant understanding. Just some of the major organisations John has assisted over the years include Telstra, Rio Tinto, Woodside, Wesfarmers, Stantec, GHD and Metrix. In addition, Federal Government agencies (Dept of Justice, CSIRO, NIAA), State Government (WA Parliament, Dept of Premier & Cabinet, Dept of Treasury, DFES, Dept of Health, Dept of Education, Public Transport Auth, Director of Public Prosecutions), various local government agencies, and major NGOs have also utilised John’s skills and knowledge in developing and supporting their people and business.
John’s areas of expertise include effective writing for business communication, report writing skills, presenting with confidence, improving creativity, speed reading and comprehension, fundamental grammar and punctuation basics, and effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Key Expertise
- Business Writing
- Report Writing
- Presentation Skills
- Communication Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
Industry Focus
- Government
- Not for Profit
- Higher Education
- Public Companies
- Multinationals
Based in:
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