Proposals with the Competitive Edge
In this 12-hour course, you’ll learn how to build a winning proposal on a solid competitive strategy, one that organizes all of the project or product specifications under a single, clear purpose. You’ll learn how to write proposals with a process that keeps you on track and on time!
Who Should Attend
- Anyone who is part of the research, preparation, and production phases of the proposal-writing process. Senior reviewers of proposal drafts.
- Managers of the proposal-writing process who wish to increase the consistency and the quality of proposal documents.
Course Topics
In this 12-hour workshop, you will learn to
- recognize the traits of a winning proposal: the competitive edge
- structure proposals with two winning approaches
- use proposals as problem-solving documents
- analyze project benefits effectively and completely
- respond to Requests for Proposal
- organize supplementary materials such as appendices and attachments
- maximize your research skills to ensure the relevance of technical material to the competitive strategy of the proposal
- employ drafting strategies to increase quality and reduce writing time
- provide the technical detail to support your message, without burdening it
- eliminate common grammar and stylistic errors found in many proposals
- apply a checklist to break the loop of seemingly endless revision
- use AI tools at different points in the writing process
