Effective Business Writing: Professionalizing Your Communication Skills

I. DESCRIPTION:

This program discusses the principles of effective business writing, including the detailed guidelines. Grammar rules, words that are confusing, etc. are also discussed to better prepare the participants for writing business correspondences.

The speaker will also discuss the common errors in business correspondences based on his experience. The participants will learn a lot from said errors or mistakes.

Exercises will be given to the participants to ensure that they apply and remember what will be discussed in the webinar.

II. OBJECTIVE:

This one-day learning session is primarily aimed at improving the business writing skills of the participants, thus enhancing business relationships with customers, creating good and credible impression and good image for the company and its people.

III. WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

All business personnel who write reports, letters, memos, emails, and other business correspondences.

All those who wish to improve their business writing skills.

IV. COURSE OUTLINE:

· Review of Basic English

o Grammar; Parts of Speech

o Subject-Verb Agreement; Noun-Pronoun Agreement

o Words that are Confusing

o Common Errors (These are common errors in business correspondences as compiled by the resource speaker.)

o Business Letters

o Phrase

o Clause

o Sentence

§ Dangling Participles

§ Sentence Unity

§ Uniformity of Sentence Construction

o Paragraph

· Effective Business Writing

o Characteristics of Business Writing

o How to Start

o Six Planning Steps

o Seven Principles of Effective Writing, Including Guidelines

1. Completeness

2. Conciseness

3. Consideration

4. Concreteness

5. Clarity

6. Courtesy

7. Correctness

o Exercises

V. METHODOLOGY:

Discussion; Tests; Exercises

VI. RESOURCE SPEAKER:

Mr. Stephen I. Bañares, CPA

Training Consultant

VII. SCHEDULE:

October 20, 2022

Thursday

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

VIII. TRAINING FEE PER PARTICIPANT:

From Member Institution – P 2,800.00

From Non-Member Institution – P 3,920.00

**VAT inclusive