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Writing High-Impact Audit Reports:
How to Get Attention, Acceptance, and Action

What You Gain from the Workshop

This popular and highly interactive workshop has helped thousands of auditors:

  • Write high-impact audit reports that display the value of their audit work.
  • Write it right the first time and avoid costly edits.

Newly updated and expanded, this hands-on seminar enables you and your audit team to:

  • Achieve the highest quality, each and every time you write.
  • Target your readers' interests.
  • Capture and hold readers' attention.
  • Get your reports to get action: Write persuasively.
  • Say it the right way: Keep your reports constructive.
  • Get started quickly: Write it right the first time.
  • Know when to stop: Write concisely.
  • Format reports to make them appealing and inviting.
  • Do effective self- and peer-reviews.
  • Put new skills in practice on the job immediately.

Who Should Participate

  • Anyone who wants to write audit reports better and faster

What You Can Expect

This is a two- to three-day workshop in which you evaluate audit report samples, complete editing and writing exercises, and achieve immediate and visible improvements in your own writing skills. All case studies and exercises are audit-specific and based on actual reports, making this program more relevant and results-oriented than any business-writing seminar. This workshop offers you proven tools and techniques based on Angela Maniak's 20 years of training and consulting work with internal audit departments.

The in-house workshop offers:

  • Tailored course objectives, agenda, and exercises to guarantee the program's relevance and effectiveness.
  • Initial needs-assessment to target particular outcomes you will achieve.
  • Feedback on your group's reports and writing samples.

Available Workshop Modules

Achieve High Quality: The First Time, Every Time

Start Every Project with an Objective: Focus on Your Deliverable

Who's Your Reader: How to Make Your Writing Appropriate

Capture and Hold the Readers' Attention: How to Get to the Point

Get Your Reports to Get Action: How to Write Persuasively

Does It Matter How You Say It? How to Keep It Constructive

Getting Started: How to Write It Right the First Time

Knowing When to Stop: How to Write Succinctly

Appeal to Your Readers' Taste: How to Make Reports Inviting

If You Don't Get It Just Right: How to Do Self- and Peer-Review

Action Planning: Putting It All in Practice


The following modules are effective, yet quick add-ons that many clients request: Put It in Writing: How to Write Short and Simple Memos & E-mails

Check Your Correctness: Essential Tips for Grammar and Punctuation

Describe It: How to Write Instructions and Procedural Narratives That Get Used

Get the book that goes along with this workshop
Writing High Impact Reports

For further information:

Angela Maniak

Angela J. Maniak
191 Prescott Hill Road
Northport, Maine 04849
207-338-0108
angela@amaniak.com

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