Professional Report Writing Skills Vital to Career Success

Report writing is an integral part of business, but it is rarely an innate talent. Effective report writing is a learned skill which, when done well, earns kudos in terms of recognition and reward. When done poorly, however, the implications at a personal, career, and even corporate level are negative at best and damaging at worst.

We all need to communicate our message effectively, but the necessary skills aren’t always to hand. Professional Report Writing Skills is a one-day course designed to address this issue. The course is devised and presented by Sarah Marriott, a working journalist who shares with business and administration executives the mastery, insights and experience gleaned during her career with The Irish Times.

This imaginative yet practical course gives participants the know-how and technique to write business communications that are accurate, clear, direct, informative and original. In particular, it helps participants free their writing of jargon and irritating ‘business-speak’; eliminate common spelling and grammatical errors, and avoid overblown verbiage. The secrets to sharp editing, overcoming writer’s block, and document structure complete the package, so that reports can be written with confidence and presented with authority.

Loretto Mara, Managing Director of High Performance Training, says the course is important because our written reports are a window on our personal competence and so have a direct bearing on how we are perceived others.

“We like to think we’re effective communicators, but even the most literally adept will accumulate writing defects and shortcuts over time: these cloud our writing, hamper our ability to communicate effectively and, in extreme instances, can adversely affect our careers. Writing with clarity, brevity and impact does not happen by accident, but the effort we put into it yields genuine and measurable rewards,” she adds.

Sarah Marriott has worked as a feature writer and sub-editor with the Irish Times and currently lectures on sub-editing for the MA in Journalism course at Dublin Institute of Technology.

For further information please contact Loretto Mara

Tel. 01 853 2215

E-mail:loretto@highperformance.ie

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