A Training Kit on Preparing and Analysing Reports and Writing Letters
Writing a report and letters is an easy and enjoyable matter, provided that it adheres to the recognised standards. Reports and letters are needed by every employee, however senior their position. Managers have come to need a means of following up on and overseeing aspects of execution at work. When senior management receives information from lower down the organisation, we are able to compare results and issue appropriate decisions, and coordination is achieved when the manager has the information and data on the work they manage.
Reports
A tool or means of presenting facts, opinions and trends, analysing them, and drawing out various results and recommendations to address a particular topic or problem.
A written or oral presentation of facts and data on a particular topic or problem, which may extend to analysis and drawing out results, and thence to arriving at recommendations and proposals related to the topic presented and analysed, or to solving a particular problem.
Objectives of Writing Reports
Understanding reports helps the organisation's leadership obtain the information needed on the organisation's administrative, technical and financial standing.
Reports help with the process of analysing and diagnosing the organisation's conditions and reality in terms of points of strength and ways to develop them.
Reports contribute to highlighting and presenting the organisation's achievements in general, and those of its departments, divisions or projects in particular.
Reports are considered a means of internal interaction between the organisation's components.
Reports contribute to the process of documentation within the organisation, as the report is considered a tool for recording and documenting information, data and facts.
Employees and managers, correspondence and reporting officers, and anyone developing administrative writing skills.