The clarity and accuracy in understanding organizational objectives and activities depend largely on appropriateness of the design and interpretation of organizational goals. Hence, effective communication is very crucial in understanding organizational objectives and activities because meaningful interpretation of organizational goals will not be achieved when communication is not effective.
Therefore, it is imperative for leadership at all levels in organisation to master effective communication skills and ensure that the skills are properly deployed for the conveyance of simple and complex organizational concepts and ideas in clear manner for holistic comprehension. Some of the benefits of effective communication include influencing others especially co-workers, inspiring trust, accelerating work process, driving the pre-determined objectives and improving productivity and enhancing satisfactory outcomes. In addition, the deployment of effective communication skills will promote the development attractive, clearly organized, and detailed report or write-up devoid of blunders and redundancies that stands a better chance of catching readers’ undivided attention. However, the realization of the aforementioned indicators of effective communication linked success indicators will be satisfactorily accomplished provided that not just the leadership but also the subordinates in organizations develop competency in communicating effectively. Hence, the duty of fostering the realization of effective communication is a great one.
Furthermore, the manifestations of effective communication of ideas become glaring with the achievement of excellence in technical and business report writing, minute writing, and presentation. Without the development of communication skills, employees’ ability in minute writing, writing technical and business reporting, and presentation of ideas will be grossly limited and adversely affect employees’ and organizational performance. Also, it is important to also emphasize that there is a strong nexus between effective communication and documentation. With proper documentation, individuals and organizations will be able to appropriately keep track of discussions, eliminate guessing and misinformation, facilitate of harmonization of thoughts, use as evidence on previous engagements, ease handing over of assignments and deploy minutes, technical and business reports as reference for further uses.
In the modern world, the relevance of ICT application in the writing, production and presentation of technical and business reports, minute writing and documentation cannot be overemphasized. Therefore, the development of competence in applying of ICT enhances the ability to make technical information to be developed and conveyed clearly, using graphs, chart, tables, diagrams, colours among others.
Hence, the training has been designed to enable participants to improve their writing skills through participation in well laid down practical activities and interactions that are geared towards consistent writing of award-winning technical and business report writing. In addition, participants’ participation in the training will expose them to comprehensively understanding on the key elements of effective presentation and documentation of reports as well as standard minute taking.