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Challenge Summary

Summary:	Review a business report that you find on the internet and prepare brief internal communications about it.
	About 2 hours

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Stimulus resources

• You may find it useful to refer back to the chapter on Good writing from the Effective business writing learning pathway.
• Here is an example of a business report, annotated using the Hypothes.is tool in the way required for the learning challenge: 2019 Business Agility Report..

(To see the Hypothes.is sidebar with the annotations, you must have Hypothes.is installed on your computer and you need click on the Hypothes.is icon on your browser when you have the report open. See the instructions for installing Hypothes.is).

Purpose

In this challenge, you will apply what you have learnt about different types of business communication to:

1. Find an example on the internet of a business report which has been written to a high professional standard.
2. Identify:
   • What type of report you have found
   • The main elements of the report
   • The intended audience and other main stakeholders for the report
   • Examples of good writing style and non-verbal communication.
3. Select appropriate communication channels and wording for distributing the report to different people.