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Getting Acquainted with Technical Report Writing and Presentation Skills - ONLINE COURSE

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Technical Report Writing and Presentation Skills CA (2)
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This 2-day course provides the necessary knowledge and skill to produce and present professional technical reports that can be understood by both technical and non-technical readers.

Attend this course and learn about:

  • The Shannon-Weaver model of communication
  • Critical Questioning, DISC profiling, Power/Control Continuum of Communication
  • The difference between technical reports and other types of business reports
  • Importance of purpose statement in technical reports
  • Strategies to customise reports for your audience
  • Eight -step process of planning, drafting, editing and presenting a report
  • Evaluating written text using Flesch Reading Score and Flesch-Kincaid Grade level
  • Gunning Fog Index Formula
  • Presentation skills including principles of persuasion

Benefits include:

  • Improve your communication
  • Apply techniques and methods that will enable you to write technical reports confidently and competently
  • Use appropriate language, good sentences, and paragraphs
  • Consider your audience and be persuasive in your reports to get positive responses
  • Use proven presentation skills and techniques to present your report convincingly

The course is aimed at (not limited to):

  • Registered and unregistered engineers, technologists and technicians requiring assistance with technical report writing
  • Personnel working in engineering management or support positions, particularly those required to submit technical reports
  • Government and municipal officials supporting engineering projects
  • Engineering practitioners aspiring to register with ECSA and/or SACPCMP

CPD

This course is accredited with:

  • ECSA (Engineering Council of South Africa) and carries 2 CPD credits.
  • SACPCMP (The South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions) and carries 1.5 CPD credits.

For online courses, it is recommended to have the following installed on your computer:

  • MS Excel
  • The Zoom app
Cost (incl. VAT)

CESA/SAICE members: R6 785.00 face-to-face / R5 428.00 Online (via Zoom)
Non-members: R8 142.00 face-to-face / R6 509.00 Online (via Zoom)

Please note the following requirements:

  • Delegates are responsible to ensure that they have sufficient data to cover the full duration of the online course.
  • According to the ECSA requirements for online training, a compulsory online assessment must be completed.
  • The pass mark for the test is 75%

Our Facilitator

Susan Williams

Susan Williams

BA (Hons) (Linguistics) , BA Humanities, NHOD

Susan is a seasoned organisation and people development professional. With a strong theoretical foundation in linguistics, philosophy and complexity theory, combined with practical business and life experience, she brings a unique blend of expertise to her work. Her specialisation areas are: Ethics and personal agency development, focussing on developing positive relational networks in complex adaptive human systems. Capacity building through occupationally-directed education training development.

In-house courses can be arranged.

Contact Lizélle at [email protected] for more information.