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Essential Business Writing Skills Course

  • Duration:1 Day
  • Cost:£560 + VAT
  • Ref:EWS

Create business documents that achieve your objectives

Cost £560.00 Duration 1 day Code EWS

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Who is it for

This course is for those who would like to refine their writing skills in general, and increase their confidence in producing emails and letters that communicate their message clearly and professionally.

What is it about

This one day course gives you the complete toolkit to write effective business communications with confidence.  The day includes practical exercises on planning and composing written correspondence, ensuring you learn grammatically correct best practice around conveying content, utilising punctuation and structure. It also covers the business etiquette appropriate to different forms of correspondence.

This course forms part of the Level 3 Certificate in PA & Administration Skills awarded by the Institute of Administration Management.


Course Overview

  • Identify your objective and write to meet it 
  • Keeping it short and simple: the key to success
  • Structure your letters effectively
  • Plan the content to get your message across clearly
  • Learn standard letter layout
  • Practise your skills by writing drafts and undertaking practical exercises
  • The essential building blocks of a sentence
  • Using correct punctuation
  • E-mail etiquette - hitting the right tone

Pre-course activity
Please bring along examples of your own written work, so you can review, edit and analyse with the trainer on the day.


What will I get out of it?

  • Skills to make the documents you write stand out from the crowd
  • Confidence to structure an argument to achieve your desired outcome
  • Belief in your own written work
  • Time saved through a structured approach to document planning and creation

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This course is accredited for CPD

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