Soft Skills · Professional · MBE™
MBW
Mastering Business Writing
Soft Skills
Professional level
30 Hours
20 Modules
Self-paced
Learn at your own pace
Certification
Earn an MBE™ Credential
MBW
About the MBW Certification
Unclear writing costs time, credibility, and decisions. The course builds practical capability in planning and drafting, structuring for busy readers, cutting words without losing meaning, controlling tone, and applying the right format to emails, chat, reports, and proposals, so professionals write documents that people actually finish and act on.
What You Will Learn
- Apply a reliable process from planning to final draft.
- Explain how clear writing drives business results.
- Analyze your reader, purpose, and desired action.
- Structure documents for skimming and low cognitive load.
- Lead with the bottom line using the Pyramid Principle.
- Write concisely in plain language and active voice.
- Match tone and register to context and relationship.
- Apply the grammar, punctuation, and proofreading that matter.
What you take away
Skills You'll Build
Reader Analysis
Document Structuring
Concise Writing
Plain Language
Core Topics
Who Is This Course For?
Executives and managers
Write clear, concise messages that drive decisions
Administrative and executive assistants
Draft professional correspondence and reports with confidence
Sales and bid teams
Write persuasive proposals and bids that win
Marketing and communications staff
Write engaging, on-brand content for any audience
HR and finance professionals
Write clear policies, reports and financial summaries
Consultants
Deliver polished client reports and recommendations
What's Included?
Self-paced modules you can revisit anytime- Digital study resources and templates
- Knowledge checks and practice assessments
- The fee includes course, examination and certification fees
Mastering Business Excellence
Certification terms and policies apply
Course Outline
- Why a Process Beats Waiting for Inspiration
- Planning: Deciding What to Say Before You Say It
- Drafting Fast and Silencing the Inner Editor
- Revising for the Reader, Not the Writer
Complete the professional assessment to earn the MBW credential
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Live, Instructor-Led
Not Offered for This Program
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