MID-CAREER | UK-SPEC: B,D,E | ONE DAY | ONLINE | CPD: 7 HOURS | PRICE: FROM £629
Advanced technical report writing for technical leaders, Managers and Senior Engineers
This course is open to individual attendees or can be delivered in-company or at IET Stevenage: Futures Place
About the training course
A fast-paced, highly practical one-day masterclass for technical managers, leaders and senior engineers who produce high-impact reports: design justifications, investment cases, risk assessments, regulatory submissions, and technical options papers.
The course blends strategic communication, data storytelling, and AI-assisted writing workflows to empower leaders and decision-makers across technical domains.
Malcolm is an experienced supply chain and contract management practitioner and consultant. His career began as a British Army Logistician where his supply chain and contract management skills were developed on large-scale procurement and supply chain programmes in the UK Ministry of Defence base and honed in the most challenging of circumstances on operations around the world.
Rising through the ranks from Private to Lieutenant-Colonel, he has experience at operating at and building capability from the lowest tactical level of an organisation right up to the strategic.
In his second career over the last decade, Malcolm has held a variety of procurement, contract and project management roles. Latterly, he has applied his skills and experience in consultancy, specialising in supporting a range of organisations with developing supply chain, procurement and contract management capability.
Recent clients have included the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Agency, UK MOD, Aviva, Portsmouth Water, Lewisham Homes, Wandle Housing and Hanover Housing.
Malcolm has a Chartered Management Institute Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership, an Advanced Diploma in Logistics and is a Commercial and Contract Management Practitioner.
Malcolm is also a qualified and experienced PRINCE2 and APM Project / Programme Manager. Malcolm is also a Professional Scrum Master. He is co-author of ‘Private Sector by Head, Public Sector by Heart’, a text that aids commercial and procurement professionals in the practical application of learnings in their real-world environments.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for experienced professionals who are responsible for producing or overseeing high-impact technical reports, including:
- Technical leaders, engineering managers and senior engineers
- Professionals preparing reports for executives, boards, regulators or external stakeholders
- Engineers and specialists contributing to investment cases, risk assessments, design justifications or regulatory submissions
- Those working in safety-critical, regulated or high-scrutiny environments
- Technical professionals who already write reports and want to move beyond “clear writing” to strategic, decision-shaping communication
The course assumes a solid technical background and is ideal for those seeking to strengthen their influence, credibility and leadership through written communication.
Topics covered
Introduction and defining your purpose
- The basics of communication
- Understanding what your starting point is
- Identifying the key challenges, you face and the things you find difficult
- The importance of knowing what you hope to achieve by your report
Gathering information for your audience
- Understanding who your audience is and what they need to learn
- Identifying the key elements that are relevant
- Making the correct choice of material
- Removing distracting information from your message
Deciding on your format
- Designing your report
- Sections and sub-sections
- Appendices
- References and bibliographies
Writing your report
- Writing your report into a story
- The use of paragraphs
- Clearer, shorter sentences
- Grammar
The visualisation of data
- The importance of your visualising data
- Which type of graphic suits your purpose
- Where to position graphics
- How to reference graphs and tables
Finishing the report
- Summaries and Abstracts
- Table of Contents
- Title page
- Appearance
- Proof-reading
Course objectives
By the end of the day, delegates will be able to:
- Structure reports that influence executives, regulators, and multidisciplinary teams
- Communicate complex technical concepts with clarity and authority
- Build compelling narratives for uncertain or contentious topics
- Produce audit-ready, regulator-ready documentation
- Apply advanced editing and peer-review techniques
- Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate drafting, summarisation, and visualisation
Early-bird
(ten weeks or over from event date)
Member - £629
Non-member - £734
Standard
(four to ten weeks from event date)
Member - £734
Non-member - £839
Late
(up to two weeks from event date)
Member - £839
Non-member - £944
Available discounts:
- 10% discount for 3 - 5 delegates - Promo code PDCOUGR3TO5
- 15% discount for 6+ delegates - Promo code PDCOUGR6PLUS
All prices are per person.
By attending this event, you’re helping to support the IET’s charitable mission, helping to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering and technology community, to engineer a better world.