Business Acumen Skills 9 – Enterprising Reports

How to draft and interpret business reports and proposals

What will I learn?

Usually, you need to have business writing capability in the form of business report writing for most jobs. By learning how to write reports and proposals in a business context, it means you can use these business writing skills in a variety of ways to communicate effectively.

In everything from formal heavy-weight reports and proposals through to budget summaries, status reports or even daily updates.

Lesson plan

  • Introduction
  • Stages of proposal writing
  • Structure of proposals
  • Stages of report writing
  • Structure of reports
  • End Note
Number of lessons
4
Duration
Approx : 4 hours
Category
Communication skills
Certificate issued
Yes

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Masterclass overview

What is report and proposal writing?

Proposals and reports are written to lead to an action. An essential part of your day job is documenting and recording your work, making suggestions, even offers to 3rd parties and reporting on projects. Excellent reports and proposals succeed by enabling decision-makers to make the best decisions. Sometimes it can be a struggle to know where to start.

Why are the mechanics of this type of business writing important?

Activities include reviewing the stages of report writing, best forms of persuasive language to use to get buy-in, ideas on how to create effective writing so as you can produce engaging and relevant materials.

Learning the techniques and tools needed to master this type of writing means you prepare thorough reports and proposals that get read and noticed. Action gets taken.

What will you achieve at the end of this Masterclass?

It is essential to understand how to write reports and proposals that lead to action. We write reports in a range of formats for a variety of purposes. Whether you need to report on a marketing concept, product/services analysis, risk management, feasibility studies, or something else, report writing is a skill you will use over and over.

You will learn the step by step methods to prepare these documents to help you to be as efficient and accurate as possible. You will build on a solid base of writing skills to present information in formal, informal, and proposal styles. Polished writing and structure will create the right impression with any of your readers.

How will you measure success?

  • Recognise what writing a report or proposal involves.
  • Prepare reports and proposals to inform, persuade, and provide information. 
  • Review your work so it’s clear, concise, complete, and correct.
  • Interpret the functions of these key business documents.
  • Grasp how to effectively write a report or a proposal by following stage by stage approach.
  • Learn to create genuinely persuasive proposals.
  • Review business writing basics, along with how to create and implement professional imagery, graphs and charts.
  • Apply these skills in real work applications.

Who benefits from this Masterclass?

We designed this masterclass for anyone keen on boosting their report and proposal writing skills alongside their communication and relationship skills. You may be a school-leaver, apprentice, student, graduate in a job where you write reports and proposals or an entrepreneur who wishes to compliment their business writing and planning capabilities with some succinct report and proposal writing skills too.

How will you manage your motivation?

You study at your convenience at your own pace. As you move through the class lessons, be inspired to complete each lesson by monitoring the progress tracker to oversee your class achievement. 

Your e-workbook includes all assignments, information, instructions, tasks and further reading contained in one place. Plus with each lesson being a video, you get to study in an easy and consistent manner. Complete your study of the class material to obtain your certificate.

You decide on the best learning approach which works for you. Select from On-Demand or Live Tutor.

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