Soft Skills · Executive · Corporate
ABWSSS
Advanced Business Writing Skills
Soft Skills
Executive level
10 Modules
40 Topics
Corporate
In-house or live virtual
Certification
Blue Ocean Academy certificate

ABWSSS
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About the ABWSSS Program
An advanced writing program for people who produce reports, proposals, board papers and sensitive correspondence. Participants learn to structure a document around the reader's decision, write in clear professional English, control tone in difficult messages and edit their own work to a publishable standard. Delivered in-house at the client's premises or live virtual, the program uses the organization's own document types throughout.
What You Will Learn
- Understand how business readers actually use documents
- Apply a clear structure to reports and proposals
- Build arguments supported by evidence and analysis
- Design executive summaries that carry the decision
- Evaluate tone and word choice in sensitive messages
- Implement a disciplined editing and review routine
- Lead document reviews and give useful written feedback
What you take away
Skills You'll Build

Report structuring
Persuasive writing
Executive summaries
Editing discipline
Core Topics
Who Is This Program For?
Senior managers
Write board papers that get decisions
Report writers
Structure long documents readers can follow
Proposal teams
Write proposals that argue a case
Technical specialists
Explain technical work to business readers
Executive assistants
Draft correspondence in a confident tone
Department heads
Raise written standards across the team
What's Included?
Delivery at your premises or live virtual for your team
Exercises built on your own reports and correspondence
Participant workbook, style checklists and digital materials
Certificate of completion issued by Blue Ocean Academy
Blue Ocean Academy
Corporate training terms and scheduling policies apply
Course Outline
- How senior readers scan documents
- Purpose, reader and required action
- Choosing the right document type
- Common causes of rewrites
Every participant receives a Blue Ocean Academy certificate of completion
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Every participant receives a Blue Ocean Academy certificate that can be verified by their employer. Corporate clients receive a completion report for the whole cohort.
Digital Certificate
Verifiable Credential
Professional Recognition
Cohort Completion Report


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