Learn to write with clarity and influence to engage your audience, convey a professional image, and get the results you want.
If you write or edit reports, tenders or other business documents as part of your role, this course will give you the practical tools you need to improve your writing.
In this course, you'll learn:
- techniques for planning and executing great business writing
- how to make your business communications consistent
- to write with clarity and accuracy
- how to avoid common mistakes
- proofreading tips for readability and dynamic writing.
You'll also gain confidence in your writing abilities.
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We can customise this course for groups of six or more.
You choose the time, place, duration and format.
Find out how we can help you and your team by clicking on the button below to request a quote or calling us directly on +61 3 9321 1700.
Learning outcomes
- Tailor your message to a specific audience
- Overcome ‘writers block’
- Structure your information to flow logically and clearly
- Write with clarity and impact using best-practice, modern writing conventions
- Create powerful paragraphs to drive clarity
- Craft strong sentences, selecting words for accuracy and tone
- Develop effective strategies for the ‘final check’
Is this course for you?
This course will benefit you most if you are a senior engineering leader, executive, or professional.
It will help you to develop the skills and confidence to create formal business documents, such as:
- Tender applications and bids
- Sales proposals
- Company reports
- Letters to stakeholders.
For a version of this course that’s focussed on creating technical documents, see Writing Winning Technical Documents.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Topics we'll cover
Analyse your audience and purpose
- Tailor your writing to the different readers of your business documents
- Know how to create the appropriate tone and style for your readers
Plan and organise your information
- Apply strategies and tactics for planning your business document
- Discuss and analyse the structure within your own documents
- Use signposts to highlight the flow of information in business documents
Write with clarity and impact
- Review and practise plain English strategies within a range of business documents
- Use powerful language that includes purposeful paragraphs and strong sentences
Towards chartered
Take this course to build skills and knowledge in the following Engineers Australia Chartered status competencies*:
2. Practise competently
9. Performance
11. Judgement
Learn more about Chartered Status.
*Completing this course does not automatically guarantee you a competency. However, you will gain the base knowledge you need to develop these specific Chartered competencies.
Christine Misso has a strong academic background in English language and literature, with extensive experience as a trainer, freelance editor and writer.
She has more than 10 years’ experience in education and training in both the government and corporate sectors. She also provides English-language coaching to technical professionals.
Christine has delivered the Writing Winning Technical Documents course for EEA for over 13 years in Australia and overseas.
She has a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Education.
Valued for her knowledge, and clear and engaging style, Christine’s feedback from clients and course participants is universally positive and enthusiastic.
Coleen Howe has extensive experience in training and facilitation across government, tertiary and the corporate sectors. She specialises in technical and business writing skills training and as a coach to professionals across multiple sectors. She brings strong operational knowledge and experience.
Coleen has an engaging and dynamic facilitation style and ensures her writing skills courses are practical and applicable.
She has a Bachelor of Arts (Languages) together with formal qualifications in project management, quality systems and contemporary writing practices. Coleen is a published author of a diverse range of documents for senior decision makers in both the public and private sectors.
