Professional Business Writing Skills
for Managers (2 days)
14-15 JAN / 26-27 MAR / 29-30 MAY / 9-10 JUL / 8-9 SEP / 19-20 NOV
Introduction
This popular, result oriented, two-day workshop helps you to improve your style and speed to write proposals, regular reports, complicated instructions and long reports. You will learn to organise and structure your information, so that your reader can save time, follow you and get to the heart of your message quickly. You will learn to write summaries, headings, cohesive paragraphs, narration of trends and completed instructions. You will pick up tips to beat writer’s block and write faster.
Target
Managers who have a good command of the English language and want to improve their writing style and speed.
What You Will Cover
1.  Clarity - writing for your audience
2.  How to write clearly and concisely
3.  How to choose the right word every time
4.  How to write with a warm and professional tone
5.  Old-fashioned and "Rubber Stamp" phrases to avoid
6.  Organising information to get results
7.  Structure of proposals, regular reports, instructions memo and long reports
8.  How to beat the deadline
9.  How to organise your thoughts
10.  Learn to write headings, cohesive paragraphs, narrations of trends and observations, instructions
(Language: English with English Workbook)
About the facilitator
Ms Abraham is an English language facilitator with more than ten years international commercial experience in research, consulting and marketing. She started her career in 1987 as a central banker in India and later moved to Sri Lanka to work as a business consultant on Government and USAID projects. Moving to Geneva a few years later, Ms Abraham contributed news and feature articles for a business newspaper. She then relocated to London in 1995, where she was responsible for the marketing and distribution of publications at an international organisation. She produced publicity material, carried out reader surveys and assisted with the writing of project proposals. Besides English, she speaks two Indian languages and some Sinhala and French. Ms Abraham has taught participants from 4M, ABN AMRO Bank, Atotech, Bank of Baroda, Caltex Oil, CLP Power, Environmental Protection Department, Institute of Vocational Education, University of Science and Technology, Jardine Matheson, Langham Hotels, Mercedes-Benz, Parfums Christian Dior, PepsiCo, Reuters and many other organisations.
/ WorldBridge Training Centre, 6 Hennessy Road,
14/F Sincere Insurance Building
(5 mins walk from Admiralty MTR)
9:00am to 5:00pm
Lunch and two teas included
HK$3,990 per participant
Discounted price of HK$3,690 per participant for enrolment one month before date of workshop or for groups of two or more