Effective Technical Writing Skills

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify and avoid common errors in business and technical writing
• Reduce time spent in planning and writing
• Organise their writing for easier understanding
• Write persuasively
• Apply the skills learnt to improve job-related writing

This workshop will cover:

• Ten Cs of effective Technical Writing
• Guidelines for Improved Technical Writing
• 7Ps of the Writing Process
• Effective Openings of Technical Letters and Reports
• Effective Closings of Technical Letters and Reports
• Types of Technical Reports - Problem Solving and Project Status Reports
• Proposal to Purchase, Incident and Accident Reports
• Convincing Your Readers
• Making Heavy Technical Writing more Readable - ten proven techniques
• Securing Management "Buy In" and Approval
• Specimen Technical reports for Case-studies
• Checklist of Effective Technical Writing

Training is practical, job-related and lively with guided writing practice, principles, application time and useful checklists.

This practical workshop will benefit all levels of engineers, technical staff, supervisors and executives who have to write clear, convincing and complete technical documentation.

Sandra Sandu-Reeves

Sandra Sandu-Reeves is an inspiring and passionate global trainer, consultant, speaker and author with a twenty-five year track record training and consulting employees of Fortune 500 corporations in twenty countries across the Asia Pacific. Her training territory includes cities in Asia, Middle East and Australia.

Sandra graduated with a Masters degree in Education (Training and Development) distinction from the University of Sheffield University UK and a Diploma from Trinity College of Speech and Drama, UK. She is a Certified Trainer with the American Management Association (AMA) and a Licensed Trainer with Tony Buzan Centre UK in Thinking Skills, Brain Power, Creative Thinking, Innovation and Mind Mapping. Since 1993, she has been a Certified Management Consultant and is one of the rare recipients of the esteemed Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants FCMC (USA) citation. Since 1997, she has been listed in the International Directory of Professionals and is Senior Director of CTC Consultants Asia Pacific.

Over the last twenty years, Sandra has been featured on leading television, radio and websites and has trained, consulted and inspired no less than half a million employees of key global corporations across twenty countries.

“Brilliant, engaging, practical trainer with wealth of global experience -IBM

Since 1982, Sandra has been a seasoned Global Trainer and Coach training employees in twenty countries across in the Asia Pacific from London, Dubai, to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. She has trained all levels of executives in Time, Stress and Wellness Management. For 25 years from large corporations in twenty countries across the Asia Pacific including:

1. Standard Chartered Bank
2. Citibank
3. ING
4. Fortis
5. Societe Generale
6. Sumitomo Corporation
7. Sumitomo Bakelite
8. AON Asia
9. AC Nielsen
10. US Navy Office at Sembawang Naval Base
11. Singapore Prison Service
12. CSIT
13. Nokia Asia Pacific
14. Huntsmen Asia Pacific
15. Schering-Plough Asia
16. Singapore Exchange
17. Lee and Lee
18. Matco Asia
19. Gexpro Asia
20. Mc Dermott Asia Pacific