Description

Background

Business with governments and large entities is systematic and streamlined. It needs strong bid preparation and tender response capacity to understand the business opportunity and respond accordingly.  A thorough needs assessment and analysis of the cause/need you want to bid for is the initial step. Further, it entails engaging the right group of stakeholders and obtaining their input in planning. Subsequent planning and a concrete solution that is supported by the agreement of all the key stakeholders furnishes the raw material for your writing. The next level is your skills in writing clearly and concisely – along with the other components of the 7 C’s in writing. An important additional consideration is the administrative requirements of the donor/sponsor. This can include required attachments, formats, printing and packaging instructions etc.

All the above points and much more details are delivered in this training brought to you by Accordemy®.

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Benefits

This Course will provide you with:

• Basic rules of business writing
• The tools needed to practice persuasive writing in business
• The skills to write coherently and engagingly. Hook your readers to the end
• The 7 ‘C’s’ in business writing
• Project planning tools
• Budget/Cost estimation
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Negotiation skills

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Who Should Attend

Business writing skills have become vital for any levels of management. If you are writing proposals, this program helps you improve your skills. If you are reviewing and approving, this program will help you provide clear instructions and help innovative ideas be clearly brought forward. Hence, the training course is helpful to CEOs, SME owners, managers, and even freelancers need excellent communication skills to further their careers and support a high level of performance.

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Curriculum

 

Day One

• Pre-test – Click here to take it for free
• Participants Expectations
• Principles of business writing
• Difference between proposals and other business communications
• The 7 C’s in writing
• Needs Assessment tools,
• Reviewing RFP’s/RFQ’s and BoQ

Day Two

• The logical framework and project planning
• Setting Project Goal and Objectives
• Project Strategy/activities formulation
• Competitive bid preparation (winning a tender price)
• Client tendering process
• Client needs in tendering
• How are tender evaluated

Day Three

• Gender, environmental and child rights consideration in project planning
• Resources estimation and budgeting for development projects
• Action planning for project proposals
• Solicited and Unsolicited proposals
• How to avoid tender horror stories
• The key deliverables which comprise a winning bid
• How a wining response is submitted
• Bidding party tendering process

Day Four

• Common UN recommended forms and proposal formats
• Components of a proposal
• Documents required to support your proposal
• Complete response to tender
• Developing compliant response
• Structuring a comprehensive response
• Writing a compelling response
• Bid requirements

Day Five

• Proofreading, peer review, and revision
• Ensuring the requirements and administrative regulations
• Proposal checklist (donor required or self-developed)
• Packaging/online submission hints
• Post-submission activities
• Award management