Business Writing and Report Craft

Professional writing fails mostly through structure rather than grammar: the point arrives on page four, the recommendation is implied, and the reader has to reconstruct the argument. This programme rebuilds writing around the reader's decision, and delegates work on their own documents throughout.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Lead with the conclusion and structure the argument beneath it.
• Write a recommendation that is specific enough to be actioned.
• Cut length without losing substance.
• Adapt register for an executive, technical or external reader.

Anyone who writes reports, papers, proposals or briefings as a significant part of their role.

Short input, then work. Across 3 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A restructured version of one of the delegate's own documents.
• A reusable report structure.
• An executive summary that stands alone.
• An editing method for cutting length.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.