Professional Writing Skills training

Course Overview

The aim of this one-day professional writing skills course is to help participants develop their skills, so that they can convey their messages clearly and concisely in writing and make the appropriate impact on their readers.

This Professional Writing Skills course is available throughout the UK at our 7 locations below, at your offices and virtually.

CPD Value 5.5 Hours

Course Locations

Professional Writing Skills London
Professional Writing Skills Manchester
Professional Writing Skills Nottingham
Professional Writing Skills Birmingham
Professional Writing Skills Bristol
Professional Writing Skills Edinburgh
Professional Writing Skills Leeds

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This course qualifies for Continuous Professional Development hours. Learn more about CPD

Timetable

09:30 - 09:45 Coffee & Course Objectives

09:45 - 10:45 You are a reader too

10:45 - 11:15 Writing for the reader

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00 Planning and preparation

12:00 - 12:30 Writing task

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:00 Plain English and accurate grammar

14:00 - 15:15 Writing task

15:15 - 15:30 Tea break

15.30 - 16:30 Review of writing task

16:30 - 16:45 Summary & Action Plans Agreed

Testimonials

Attended Virtual Course:

Thoroughly enjoyed the course, helping to give me more confidence is writing letters and emails.

Susan Cusick, Scottish Power

Malcom was brilliant. Made the session super engaging, and made it easy to understand the concepts.

Jasnam Ghudhail, Anticus Partners Ltd

Great course and will help me in terms of writing audience specific content.

Benjamin Evans, Royal Albert Hall

Attended virtual session:

A very good course and well presented by someone who really understood what they were presenting and could easily adapt to the audience.

Emma Weintroub, LocatED

Great trainer.

Zain Ghafoor. CPiO Limited

Helpful, interesting, interactive. Got answers to my questions.

Rimante Luyten, West London Waste Authority

Tools simple and easily implemented.

Valerie Cranston, Xafinity Consulting

Enjoyed the course. Beneficial for role.

Grainne O'Reilly. Xafinity Consulting

Taught me things I didnt know I needed to learn.

Allan Douglas-Munn, Xafinity

Thank-you for showing us skills we can put into practice!

Lynsey Dunnachie, Xafinity

Was more than just a writing course. Good values to use in everyday communications.

Ashley Ghiloni, Xafinity

Good highlighting of reasons behind factors affecting understanding and response.

John Webster, Xafinity

Very good, I would recommend for my staff.

Alison Boach, Total Hygiene Limited

The trainer was very interesting and adapted the course fully to the needs of my role.

Jane White, Shelter

Very high standard of training. A course that will be effective in future report writing.

Martyn Walker, CPP Ltd

Very well run course.

Junior Hewit, CPIO

Good, clear, practical advice.

Anna lawson, CPP

Surprised at how you do not think that your document could be flawed!

Roger Cole, CPIO Ltd

Thoroughly enjoyed the course.

Nick Atkins, CPIO Ltd

Course was very useful & practical, trainer was very effective.

Alex Swallow, Office of Judicial Complaints

Good course, engaging, useful and easy to understand. Good use of examples and lots of discussion which was helpful

Anisa Mumtaz, Nottingham Trent University

John thoroughly enjoyed his training and came back raving about how good it was ! Thank you for your time and I'm sure we will be using PTP again in the future.

Vicki McAllister, Amino Communications Ltd

Benefits

Ability to evaluate and improve written material
Ability to plan and structure documents to meet needs of readers
Ability to use plain English and avoid grammatical errors
Ability to produce written materials which meet agreed quality criteria