Trueventus - Communication & Writing Skills for Engineers

March 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Managers, engineers, attorneys, and other highly paid workers spend up to 85% of their time writing, or reading other people’s writing. The cost to an organisation of writing is an average of $150 per page. So a 10-page report costs $1,500 to write. But what is the cost of a poorly written report?
•   An oil company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing a new pesticide... only to discover that the formula had already been worked out five years earlier – by one of the same company’s technicians. He wrote his report so poorly that no one had finished reading it
•   A nuclear plant supervisor ordered ‘ten foot long lengths’ of radioactive material. Instead of getting the ten-foot lengths it needed, the plant received ten one-foot lengths, at a cost so great it was later classified
•   Prof D Winsor showed ‘a history of miscommunication’ to be one of the root causes of the Challenger disaster in 1986
People form an impression of a presenter and his message within 3 – 30 seconds. If it’s a poor impression, people will disengage from the presentation. If that happens, the presentation, the report and the information are largely ignored. What is the cost of that?

WHY YOU CANNOT MISS THIS EVENT
Doing business today requires writing in plain language. Documents need to be written efficiently and effectively. Technical specialists are expected to present their information in a compelling way to busy nonspecialist readers (and decision-makers). Because decision-makers are so busy, they will often expect the report writer to present their report during a meeting, or face to face. The decision may be made on how well the report writer presents the report.
A poor presentation can undermine the entire report. Yet public speaking is listed as the number 1 fear people have. It is essential that people in business are able to present their cases with confidence.
This training promises to provide participants with techniques to support consistent & professionally written technical reports, and present them with confidence. Join Nick Read from Training for Change in Jakarta Indonesia for this not to be missed event.

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