REPORTING SKILLS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING

Description

COURSE OUTCOMES

This practical self-study course will teach you how to create reports that lead to action and support good project decision-making. You will learn a process for reporting that will reduce wasted time and deadline stress and lead to writing that has greater impact.

Through downloadable course videos, practical exercises and extra materials you will learn how to:

• Set reporting objectives

• Collect data
  

• Analyse data and draw conclusions / identify lessons learned

• Plan your writing around the report objectives and reader's needs

• Organise your ideas in a logical, persuasive way

• Communicate clearly and in a way that keeps your readers interested and alert

The course addresses the challenges faced by development, relief and humanitarian professionals in reporting and professional writing in a way that allows for maximum practical work. While you will get all the theory you need, you will learn the steps and tools in a way that you can apply time after time after the course is over so that:

• You will always know what to do each time you report

• Your reports will be actionable - contributing to better managed, more responsive projects and better results

• Your reports will take less time and be of higher quality

HOW IT WORKS

As soon as you sign up you get immediate, lifetime access to all the course materials - course videos, worksheets and extra materials. As a self-paced course, you work through a series of video presentations on various aspects of Reporting Skills and Professional Writing at your own pace.

The first half of the course examines the key skills of Professional Writing, while in the second part we move onto the process of reporting - setting objectives, gathering and analysing data, and planning / drafting / editing reports.

This is a practical course. At various points you will invited to stop the video and complete different tasks. You will find the worksheets for these inside the course. Please do stop and do the tasks when asked.

At the end of the course there is a test to measure how successfully you have learned the skills before you are issued with your certificate.