Writing Reports, Letters, Newsletters

Do you need a professional-looking documents that communicates your message?

Writing Proposals, Tenders, Grants

Do you need to write a persuasive document to win that contact?

Presentations on Writing Topics

Do you need a presenter to speak on a writing topic?

Editing

Do you need your document edited?

Coaching and Mentoring Writing Teams

Do you need a professional writer to work with your team to get that report written and impart writing skills without diverting from critical work tasks?

To engage a professional writer for your business documents, ring Austral on 07 3279 7373.

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Face-to-Face Half-day, One-day and Two-day Courses

Overview

The Write to Communicate courses includes the following:

• Pre-Workshop Activities
• Discussions on tailoring the writing training program
• Collection of writing samples (one to three pages) from participants for personal feedback on writing style
• Review of sample documents to identify key writing problems.

Features

These courses are for engineering organisations, research organisations, government agencies and other organisations where the written word is critical to success:

• The courses focus on communication
• The courses can take place in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and other cities or places
• The courses are tailored (time, place, date and content) for individual organisations and incorporating documents from the workplace
• The courses are recognised by Engineers Australia for Continuing Professional Development purposes.

Course Profile

The course includes the following:

• Four half-day face-to-face sessions (or two one-day sessions)
• A PowerPoint presentation of key messages
• Course booklets
• Group and individual exercises (problem-solving scenarios, analysing writing, writing exercises, short answer quizzes)
• Feedback on writing samples supplied by participants
• Optional post-course activities
• Optional interactive online grammar crossword puzzles
• Optional post-course online revision exercises (clarity, convince, grammar, image, punctuation, rapport)
• Optional review to identify the ongoing educational or coaching needs of the participants
• Scenarios related to the workplace

Course Aims

The course aims to develop these skills:

• Writing convincing proposals with clearly framed arguments
• Writing clear reports that present or re-present key messages and focus on readers
• Writing concise emails, letters, reports and proposals that present a clearly understood and defined organisational message
• Writing more sensitive, relevant letters and emails that encourage rapport rather than disharmony.

Course Benefits

The projected benefits of the course include the following:

• With more consistent and convincing arguments, the organisation will experience greater acceptance of the message;
• With more succinct and targeted writing the organisation will create more effective letters, reports and proposals;
• With more positive and more carefully selected words the organisation will generate more powerful communication with colleagues and clients.

Course Characteristics

Austral’s courses include these elements:

• Mutual respect: Acknowledging that both participants and presenters bring knowledge that can be shared
• Relevance: Linking theory and general knowledge to the workplace of audience members makes it more relevant
• Reinforcement: Presenting the same concept in different ways to suit different learning styles reinforces those concepts
• Practicality: Using practical exercises to make theory and concepts more relevant and memorable
• Challenge and variety: Using audio and visual effects along with practical writing tasks to add challenge and variety.

Course Program Overview

Evaluation

The workshop includes these mechanisms to ensure relevance and monitor the progress of the participants:

• Pre-consultation to ensure the training material is relevant
• Continuous questioning during the workshop to gauge understanding
• Workshop exercises to monitor the absorption of information
• Feedback at the end of the workshop
• Follow up online exercises to practice workshop concepts.

Clients

To see a list of clients for whom Austral has conducted internal writing workshops, go to this page.