The Report Writing and Presentation Course teaches you how to structure, write and verbally present a professional report. You will learn what to leave out and what to include in order to engage your readers and audience members. Report Writing for Technical Professionals is designed to help technical professionals improve report writing skills, and sharpen up and deliver reports that are concise, logical, and persuasive. One thing is for sure, the more effective reports are, the greater the chances for a successful outcome.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to learn:
Write for a particular target audience, and adapt the same material for different audiences.
Formulate the purpose and goal of the writing, and develop an approach and method of persuading the audience of your main points.
Order and structure the material and the flow of information in a manner to support your argument.
Given the purpose and the persuasive message, create a report outline, and know how the various sections are going to link together to support the persuasive message.
Recognize the value of writing in plain English.
Recognize the value of visual material in technical reports, and be to match the verbal message with a graphical message
Recognize the importance of layout, and non-verbal messaging in the preparation of reports.
Write effective technical reports and procedures that cater to the needs of their target audience
Present complex experimental data in a logical, clear, and concise manner making optimal use of graphs, charts, and tables
Build credibility by following the conventions of scientific writing to support explanations and arguments
Ensure technical documents achieve maximum impact by efficiently structuring the data and avoiding common written English mistakes
Analyze experimental data using the principles of statistical analysis
Heads of Engineering Departments
Project Managers
Electrical Engineers
Civil Engineers
Mechanical Engineers
Plant Engineers
Production Engineers
Supervisors
Clients
Contractors
Sub-contractors
Graduate engineers
And anyone interested in improving their report writing and presentation skills
Principles and Strategies of Technical Report
Knowing Your Audience, Purpose, and Length of Report
Giving and receiving constructive feedback – what makes a review effective?
Headings, Chapters, and sections
Running headers and footers
Types of reports and templates to use
Writing styles & techniques
The 12 golden rules of writing
Group practice and interactive session
Focus on your audience’s needs
Deter word choice, tone, and number of details to include
Drafting – the mindset to avoid writer’s block
Checking your own
Writing Clear Sentences and paragraphs
Remove Jargon, Redundancy, and Wordiness
Spotting common language problems (lengthy and confusing sentence structures, weak vocabulary, etc.)
Kinds of graphics and their messages
Suitability for placement in a graphic representation
The program opens by exploring the key leadership skills and how to apply them in the organization. Using this initial analysis, the program explores managing yourself as a leader, leading a team, creating breakthroughs through innovative leadership, communicating effectively with others, and imparting leadership values to your team members. All attendees will return to their organizations better equipped to meet the challenges and demands of leadership.
This is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly informative advanced leadership program. It seeks to develop and enhance your personal, team, and organizational leadership skills.
This seminar is designed to provide practicing or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by the role. This leadership programme enables your leaders to critically explore the key idea that the most important function of a leader is to help their people move through the stages of team development.
Alliances in business are a natural route for development – but not all contracting relationships can truly be seen as alliances. A good, trusting and open relationship is essential for a long-term and successful alliance – and this needs to be practiced by the negotiators involved. Negotiation is inevitably at the heart of every process to achieve what you want, whether in an agreement, bargaining for an item, or closing a deal. At the end of each negotiation, the goal is to seek a win/win outcome – an essential characteristic of long-lasting alliances. This course provides an essential framework for effective negotiation — which will be vital for building and exploiting an alliance - from building the relationship, critical thinking to prioritize goals
Health, Safety, and Environmental Management Systems are based on a proactive process for incidents prevention as well as reactive monitoring of performance. Risk assessment is required to be applied to all activities that impact on health & safety, production, asset, environment, and the Company reputation.
All businesses in the current environment need a competitive edge. This can be gained through innovative and exciting products and services, or effective and efficient world-class employees. Top performing organizations are passionate about their most valuable resource - their staff. To maintain their high standards a large proportion of their time and energy is spent on continuous professional development, not only of their employees but of their business. This course investigates the tried and trusted management processes, procedures, and methodology used by many blue-chip companies. They use the tools to develop high levels of performance from their staff. This in turn ensures the future and reputation of their companies through innovative development, service, and evaluation. This course offers participants practical solutions to work-related issues.
Enterprise Risk Management known as (ERM) has evolved considerably since the seventies. From simply 'buying' insurance, it has now grown in importance to become a prime function in many organizations as part of a bigger system known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) which starts with corporate governance and ends with compliance. ERM is the function of studying the risks that may hinder a corporation's ability to achieve its goals and then deciding how to overcome those risks. Studies regarding risk management were done by different organizations, including ISO which issued ISO 31000 on risk management. However, the most accepted ERM system is the one designed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). This system, which is the one covered in this course, teaches the steps needed to control risk. It starts with the evaluation of the internal environment and the setting of objectives which are, mainly, a result of the tone at the top of the organization, the directives from corporate governance as well as the vision, mission, and corporate strategies. Then, the course goes through the steps management needs to consider in order to identify and assess risk and decide on proper risk responses and controls. The course ends with how to monitor, communicate, and report risk. In addition, the course looks at risk in different organizational areas such as strategy, reporting, compliance, operations, financial and physical risk as well as risk in different industries.