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London Bridge | £329 + VAT save £70 | |||
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London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £399 + VAT | |||
Online | £399 + VAT |
Introduction
• What is good creative writing in a business environment?
• Good and bad examples of creative business writing
Understand language, personality and tone of voice
• How you can reflect the personality of your organisation through the words you choose
• How different words project different personalities
• Recognise the different tones within the English language
• Use of active and passive sentences
• Practical writing exercise
Writing for an audience
• Different structures to use for news and features
• How to pick a structure that suits your audience and your message
• What is AIDA? (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action)
• How to incorportate AIDA in your copy
• Generating ideas
• Practical writing exercise
Grabbing your audience's attention
• Creative headlines and intros
• Story structures to connect with your reader (ie About Us, why we do what we do, what we learned, how we do it, our vision, meet our customers)
MAPPED
• Brainstorming business stories with MAPPED (ie memorable, authentic, persuasive, powerful, entertaining, dynamic)
Developing your skills further
• Overcoming writer's block
• Writing concisely
• How to spot unnecessary words, sub-clauses, sentences and paragraphs
• Practical group writing exercise
Questions and answers
This course is also available as a private course. If you wish we can tailor the content for your team. Please contact us for more details.
"Piers was great, he explained everything really clearly and was very engaging to listen to - I'd definitely recommend the course to others."