HIGH-IMPACT BUSINESS WRITING
Run by: Emphasis
Cost and length: £395 plus VAT for a one-day public course or about £2,000 a day for in-house training.
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Aimed at: People who want to improve their business writing skills.
What you learn: How to produce effective reports, proposals, letters and other business documents. Topics include grammar, structure and punctuation. Analysis of a document written by each participant before the course helps the instructor to tailor advice to an individual’s needs.
Alumnus’s comment: “I have noticed major improvements in clarity and brevity of written communication (we publish a lot of ‘stuff’). It’s a great course for all types of people.”
Simon Carlton Rhodes, head of knowledge services, Ernst & Young centre for business knowledge
Next course: May 10
Information: www.writing-skills.com
CREATING THE AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN
Run by: Cranfield School of Management
Cost and length: £2,090 plus VAT for three days, residential. Can be run as an in-house course for individual companies.
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Aimed at: Anyone who influences or sets supply-chain strategy for their company. This could range from sales and marketing people to HR managers, customer logistics staff, or cross-disciplinary teams.
What you learn: How to develop a supply chain strategy that meets customer needs; how to deal with the operational divide between marketing and operations.
Alumnus’s comments: “The course was very relevant for our organisation and we are in the middle of implementing concepts we picked up on it. Taking one of our suppliers and a customer on the course made it particularly useful.”
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Mike Edwards, the manager of Project Mercury, British American Tobacco
Next course: May 23-25
Information: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk
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