About the Workshop
No one wants to spend their time and energy writing something, only to have it completely ignored or misunderstood by their reader. This crash course teaches a four-step, reader-centric approach to business writing. Whether you’re a supervisor, an officer, or a non-sworn employee, you’ll learn best practices for getting your point across through email correspondence, proposals, policies, internal memos, press releases, and other written documents.
Intended Audience
• Supervisors
• Command Staff
• Chiefs & Sheriffs
• Administrative Supervisors
• Administrative Staff
• Anyone who writes or reads email, memos, proposals, or other business documents on a consistent basis.
Participants Will Learn:
• The essential ingredients in all business writing.
• Various writing structures and when to use them.
• How to style your writing so that your reader will listen.
• How to avoid (and fix) common grammar and usage errors.
• Business writing tips from real-world examples.
• The four stages of business writing: gathering ideas, organizing ideas, expressing ideas, and clarifying ideas.
// Testimonials
What our workshop participants are saying
Best class that I have taken about report writing. Great overall structure and good training material.
Supervisor, 11–15 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
The course was well organized and engaging. The hands on work allowed me to understand and incorporate the concepts learned in the course.
Patrol, 2–5 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
Amazing class, the instructor is very professional, always prepared, and very supportive regardless of your writing skills.
Patrol, 0–1 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
New methods to properly write a report. Will definitely implement these tools.
Patrol, 15+ Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
Good class. Enthusiastic way of presenting the information. The game was fun too.
Supervisor, 11–15 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
I feel more confident about writing a more organize and detail report.
Patrol, 0-1 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
It was great. Honestly, best class.
Patrol, 0–1 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
This course simplified the steps necessary to execute and document a call properly into a reported format
Patrol, 2–5 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
Great class take sooner rather than later. Extremely valuable information.
Patrol Services Division, 0–1 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
The course was great, guides and reference materials are very useful, course information was easy to follow
Corrections, Booking/Processing, 5–10 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
Excellent course. Very well thought out and organized. Instructor is very knowledgeable. Suggestion to mention that report writing starts with good questioning/interviewing/investigation, listening, and note taking. Thank you.
Police Records Section, 15+ Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
It's was a great class, I learned how important is to write a good report.
Deputy, 2–5 Years
6 Rules of Effective Police Report Writing
Agenda
Introduction & Course Overview
Four Elements of Effective Business Writing
Stage 1: Pre-Writing
Stage 2: Organizing
Stage 3: Writing
Lunch
Writing Exercises
Stage 4: Revising/Editing
Group Exercise
Class Wrap-up
Introduction to Business Writing
What Our Participants Are Saying
This was EXACTLY what I wanted!!! A class focused on structure and style of writing and really helped me to improve my writing and thought process!!
Instructor was born to teach this (I mean that in the best way!)
Engaging, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic!!
Training/admin
5-10 Years
Excellent course. Extremely relevant to the job. Instructor was knowledgeable and made the material easy to follow. I recommend the course.
Patrol
5-10 Years
This is one of the best writing course i have taken.
Commander, Patrol Operations
15+ Years
Writing professionally is a perishable skill. You take so many shortcuts with emails & other forms of informal communication that you often forget the rules. Great I formation & thanks for the resources!
Asst. Chief/Patrol Division Commander
15+ Years
He does a very good job organizing the material and engaging the class
Patrol
11-15 Years
Learning good formatting for emails, memos and policy was extremely helpful. Going over common grammar usages was also very helpful. I enjoyed this class and the instructor was very knowledgeable.
Patrol Supervisor
5-10 Years
Well developed and researched.
Patrol
5-10 Years
Great course. This course was very engaging and fun to learn different ways to write.
School Resource Officer
5-10 Years
Unclear writing, more often than not, is a symptom of unclear thinking.
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