Business writing
Memos, reports, proposals and announcements at work.
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- Write a handover document
Writes a handover for leave or a role change covering responsibilities, open work status, contacts, access, recurring tasks, known risks and first-week priorities, with gaps listed as questions.
- Write a professional bio
Writes the bio others read or say about you on speaker pages, programmes, proposals, author notes and team pages, at one-line to long lengths, angled to that reader and built only from your facts.
- Write an executive summary
Writes an executive summary of a long document that leads with the bottom line, the key points and the ask, using only facts from the source. Use before sending a report to busy readers.
- Write a project status report
Writes a project status report with an evidence-based RAG status, progress, risks, decisions needed and next steps, formatted as an email, a document or a single slide.
- Write an internal announcement
Writes an internal announcement of a reorg, policy change or launch that explains what is changing, why, the impact on each group and where to ask, plus an FAQ and a pre-send check.
- Write a decision memo
Writes a one-page decision memo with the decision needed and by when, context, options with honest trade-offs, a recommendation and next steps. Use when asking a manager to approve something.
- Write a white paper
Writes a B2B white paper that frames an industry problem with cited evidence and sets out a solution approach, citing a supplied source for every factual claim and flagging unsupported ones.
- Write a project proposal or business case
Writes an internal project proposal or business case covering the problem, options, recommendation, cost, benefits and risks, and marks every missing number instead of inventing it.