Ministerial correspondence writing

Overview

This workshop helps participants write letters that ministers or senior executives like to sign. Participants leave with a clear set of principles that will help them produce high quality correspondence.

Course Content

This workshop offers a clear outline of what ministerial or mayoral correspondence is and why it matters. It gives participants a structure for the letter of reply, a structure for the brief to go with the letter and strategies to keep the letter to one page. This workshop is very practical and uses many case studies.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

• identify key elements of a ministerial reply
• understand the role of ministerial correspondence
• better control the key components of writing ministerial correspondence
• write plainly
• write a strong brief to go with the letter for signature
• write with more political sensitivity
• reduce their writing errors.

Benefits to your organisation

• staff who understand the importance of using the agency’s templates and style guides
• draft letters produced that need minimal revision so senior staff spend less time editing drafts
• page long letters and briefs

Benefits to you

• ability to write a letter for someone else’s signature
• knowledge of what to put in and what to leave out and how to keep the reply to a page
• grammar and punctuation questions clarified