Effective Business Report Writing and Presentation Skills

The report writing process

• Report writing overview
• 5 easy steps to report writing
• Understanding your audience
• Articulating the intended purpose
• Planning content and style
• Employing essential writing building blocks
• Business writing: express or impress?

Reporting structure

• Structuring tools
• Arranging different sections of a report
• Writing captivating introductions
• Conducting research and analysis
• Delivering evidence-backed findings
• Deriving unbiased conclusions
• Tools and methodologies for deriving recommendations
• Bringing it all together: a cohesive and coherent report
• Storytelling elements

Report types and templates

• Recognizing different reporting structures
• Matching reports to situations
• 6 reporting types
• Investigative reports
• Progress and status reports
• Periodic reports
• Instructional reports
• Proposals
• Financial reports
• Reporting templates

The power of visual aids

• Using visual aids
• Principles for designing visual aids
• Recognizing different visual aids
• The role of visual aids
• Applying principles of design
• Using images, diagrams, graphs, charts, and tables for impact
• Integrating visual aids into a report
• Essential visual aid checklist

Reports that win

• Elements of winning reports
• Using writing tone effectively
• Applying scientific tools and methodologies
• Mastering the ‘so what?’
• Building rapport
• Mastering editing techniques