Business Writing & Communication
14 skills across 4 areas, in the order you need to learn them. 3 of them end in work you hand in and we mark.
Covers the subject wellWe mark it against a checklist you can read first
Take the skill check — about 10 minutes14
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What you'll be able to do
- Audience and purposeState in one line who a document is for and what you want them to do, then write to that
- The single most important sentenceIdentify the single sentence a document exists to deliver, and lead with it
- Evidence and claimsSeparate claim from evidence and mark your confidence in each honestly
- Structure and signpostingOrder a document so the most important thing comes first and each section earns its place
- Writing an executive summaryCompress a long document into a summary that stands alone and hides nothing
- The shape of a proposalStructure a recommendation so a reader can approve or reject it without a meeting
- Plain languageRewrite a dense paragraph in plain language without losing precision
- Sentence craftWrite sentences where the subject does the verb and the emphasis lands where you meant it
- CuttingCut a draft by a third while keeping every load-bearing idea
- Tone and registerMatch tone to the reader and the stakes, and defend the choice
- Email that gets a replyWrite an email whose ask is unmissable in the first two lines
- Difficult messagesDeliver bad news early and plainly, without padding it into ambiguity
- Feedback in writingGive specific, actionable written feedback that a reader can act on without a call
- Notes people actually useTurn a meeting into notes that name every decision, owner and deadline
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Every skill above, ordered by what depends on what, with the projects above that as the evidence you actually did it. We work out where you already are first, so the path skips what you can do.
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