Effective Business Report Writing
27th-28th September 2010,The Legend Hotel,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dear Friends,
Business writing is actually putting down your ideas and thoughts on a piece of paper, which you intend to communicate to your senior managers or to your subordinates in your office. Poor business writing will not earn you respect and pride. You not only loose those, but you can even kill your business. When nobody understands your writing, then communication breaks down. Nobody will be able to perform to your level of expectation, and your customers will not place more orders or do more business with you. Poor writing is damn frustrating and exasperating whenever a reader cannot understand the purpose of your message.
What is this workshop about?
In this program, the facilitator will show you how to communicate convincingly your ideas and thoughts in your business reports that you often sent to your senior managers, and to your staff and customers. Just follow some basic rules, you can then write effectively a business report that will quickly earn you a promotion, and/or at least some respects from them.
Why this workshop?
By the end of the session, you would be able to:
- Understand the importance of communicating through effective business writing
- Pay attention on how to write an effective business report that will get you the desired responses from the readers
- Apply the essentials rules on effective business writing that could improve your writing skills
- Construct short and simple business report yet would still create high impact to the readers
- Systematically review and revise your business reports to achieve higher quality in the final draft
- Polish your English on grammar, punctuation, tenses, passive voice, and many others that most of us likely forgotten
- Quickly change your old styles of writing business reports to contemporary trends
- Write different types of business report effectively, whether it is project report, business progress report, analysis report, or report to board of directors.
- Impress your senior management with your business reports that might earns you promotions
- Extend your professional skills and add your career value
Learning Methodology
The program will be delivered through a combination of Participatory and Learning-by-doing approach, where the participants will be practicing their business report writing skills through various case studies/exercises, and then assess and grade by their peer's reports. As the participants observe their peers, they can learn further from others' efforts.
Active learning activities are included to allow participants to engage actively in the learning process. The active learning activities are such as:
- Group discussions
- Real & exciting case studies
- Case exercises
- Interactive storytelling
- Brainstorming
- Q & A sessions
The 9 Important Modules you will learn during this 2 day workshop
Module 1: The overview of report writing in business communication
Understand the five crucial steps to effective communication through report writing - considerations, planning, production, review, delivery.
Module 2: Guide to writing reports
Learn the systematical steps to writing from defining the purpose of the report, investigating the topic, organizing the report into sections, putting the order of presentation, and to revising the report, planning the writing, numbering sections and paragraphs, and placing the order of writing.
Module 3: Writing informal business report
Practice how to write informal business report through a step-by-step instruction
** Case study on writing a memorandum
Module 4: Writing formal business report
Understand the elements of formal business report and organizing the report - Summary, Introduction, Body, and Appendix
Module 5: Writing and revising the first draft
This module will show you when to revise the report, and how to revise the report base on the criteria of completeness, accuracy, clarity, conciseness, and readability. Lastly, we will examine on how much revision is needed to assure the quality of the report
** Case study on writing an executive summary
Module 6: Reviewing for conciseness
Discover how you could review your report conciseness through a series of examination, such as: irrelevancy, redundancy, tautology, unnecessary adjectives, unnecessary intensives, duplication of ideas, circumlocution, indirection, fractionation, and imprecision
Module 7: Reviewing for clarity: words & sentences
Discover how you could review your report clarity through a series of examination, such as: sensitivity for word, vagueness, general terms, abstract terms, and passive voice
** Case study on writing a business report
Module 8: Reviewing for accuracy: grammar
This module will show how to appraise the English grammars through a simple and easy framework
Module 9: Writing different business reports
Learn how to write project report, business progress report, analysis report, and report to board of directors and the differences between each report
Course Leader
Agee Lee has more than 26 years of corporate experience, and including 19 years of training experience. He started his career as a trainee in Kwong Yik Bank and moving up to Branch Manager, Loan Manager managing Corporate and Commercial Loans, and finally as Head of Loan Recovery Division. During this employment as Head of Loan Recovery Division, he successfully led his team by bringing down the Non Performing Loans (NPLs) from RM1.9 billion to RM68 million.
After his stint from Kwong Yik Bank, he worked in a property development company, constructing a condominium and Nilai 3 for 2 years. He then worked 2 years in a construction company in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, executing federal contracts on roads, schools and colleges. His last appointment was with Hong Leong Bank as Head of Remedial Management Department supervising NPLs of RM6 billion.
Besides his impressive career track records, Agee Lee is also active in charity. He was elected as the President of Kiwanis Club in 1987, and for his dedication and service to the community, was also awarded the Distinguished President of the Year Award for 1986 to 1987 by the Past- Presidents of the Kiwanis Club of Kuala Lumpur. He was the top fund raiser for several consecutive years, helping many under-privileged children to grow up healthy and reach their full physical and mental potential. He was then in the Board that nurtured the "Kiwanis Down Syndrome" in 1988.
Agee Lee is actively involved in training for the manufacturers, banks, professional institutions, property developers, construction companies and SMI. He specializes in the area of corporate strategic planning, ordinary business planning, operations of international trade & financing, banking, and finance & accounting.
Agee Lee holds Honours Degree in Economics (major in Business Administration) from the Universiti Malaya, as well as the Associate of Institute of Bankers (London), Diploma in Marketing Management (NPC) and Certificate in Financial Planning (MII). He was recently given AIBM from the Institut Bank Bank Malaysia, and certified professional trainer by Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad (PSMB).
Who Should Attend
Branch or divisional managers, executives, engineers, technical specialists, clerical support and office administration staffs are encouraged to attend this session
Workshop Size
Registration is strictly to the first 20 people. This cannot be altered. If the past is any indication of the future, spaces fill up very quickly. If you are interested in attending, call us now or download the registration form here and fax it back to us at ++6 03 40235716.
HRDF Claimable
This workshop is claimable under the HRDF SBL Scheme. Checks with your department to make sure you are eligible.
Tax Deductibility
In all likelihood this seminar is tax deductible. Check with your accountant to be sure.
Workshop Investment $$
RM 1290.00 per delegates. This includes all workshop materials. Lunch will be provided.
Early Bird Offer!!
If you register yourself EARLY, you will enjoy a discount of 5%. For more information, please refer to the registration form here.
Group Discount!!!
If you register in group of 3 persons or more, you will enjoy additional 5% discount, and if your group are 5 persons or more, you will get a much greater discount of 7%, and 10% discount shall be entitled for group of 8 persons or more. So get your friend or colleagues to register with you!
100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
We understand that some of you don't know us. That is why we make this workshop a 100% satisfaction guaranteed. If for any reason whatsoever you don't feel like you have received more than your money worth by lunch break, simply hand in your materials for a complete 100% refund. No weasel clauses, no hassles, no questions asked. We won't lie, as rarely we have to make refund to our participants; however it is our integrity which makes our business successful.
If you like what you have gone through so far, you may register yourself by downloading the full brochure here, and fax the registration form back to us at ++6 03 40235716. And if you happen to have some friends or colleagues who would be interested in this workshop, please forward this link to them.
Yours Sincerely,
Global Intelligence Network (M) Sdn Bhd
Tel: ++6 03 40216000
Fax: ++6 03 40235716
Email: admin@gin-my.com
