Workshop: Use AI to help you write reports
The stakes are high when elected members, funders or board members are using your report to make a decision. This workshop shows you how to write credible, trustworthy reports, and different ways that AI can help you improve the quality and readability of your work
Overview
The workshop walks through a full report writing process. You will gain clarity on what decision your report needs to focus on, who your ideal reader is, and how to build an outline to support your writing process.
You’ll explore options for using AI to help you and decide where it adds value and where you’re better off doing without it.
You will leave with a way of working that keeps your voice and your thinking at the centre of every report.
Benefits
- Get clear on whether your report is there to advise, advocate, or provide accountability
- Save yourself the pain of rewriting by understanding your scope and audience before you start
- Build an outline which helps you make big changes early, while they’re still easy to make
- Practise using AI to help with research, options development, report structure and editing
- Decide how to stay close to your content by combining manual steps with AI support
- Leave with a prompt library and a flexible process you can adapt to any report
Skills taught
Participation will give you the opportunity to:
- Use a reliable framework to write prompts that produce useful outputs rather than generic first drafts
- Learn a process for clarifying what your report needs to achieve, and what your readers need to know
- Create a solid outline with help from AI
- Interweave manual and AI steps when writing and editing, so you stay close to the content in your report
- Design a workflow for future reports that suits you.
Designed for
Team leaders, project leads and other report writers in business, community organisations and councils who need to provide advice, recommend changes or report on outcomes.
What to expect
This is a hands-on workshop. You will work with a scenario that’s closely aligned to the reports you need to develop for your organisation or business. You will leave with a prompt library and a reliable process to follow whenever you need to write a report.
About me
I help organisations turn inconsistent, hard-to-track AI use into a shared way of working. Through training and a ready-to-use prompt library, your team develops a clear sense of where AI genuinely helps – and where to steer clear of it.
It’s essential to maintain ownership of your work, and one of the ways I do that is to interweave manual steps between each use of AI.
I also write strategies, policies and plans for councils and not-for-profit organisations across New Zealand. I’ve been doing this work since 2014 via Writing for Councils, and before than I worked at Nelson City Council in resource management and strategic planning roles.
Costs
- Online: $1500 (for groups of up to 10 people)
- In person: $2,000 (for groups of up to 12 people)
Ready to get started?
Get in touch for more details or to book your workshop.
Email: debra.bradley@writingforcouncils.co.nz
Phone: 021 215 4698
