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Ask yourself what you would like the report to accomplish. Based on the desired objective, choose a type of report from the list above. Regardless of the answer, you need to make your objective concise. If it is muddled, then your report will only confuse your audience, which risks damaging the report's credibility. For instance, you may want to accomplish receiving a larger advertising budget for your department. Your report should focus on the current advertising budget and how you might effectively use a larger budget. Your audience may include an outside party (someone who doesn't work within your company) or someone within your firm. Consider the knowledge or familiarity the audience already has with the intended topic. Also, think about how the audience will use the information in the report. Remember that regardless of your audience, no bottom line speaks louder than money to a company or client. For instance, say you want to implement a job-share program for your division. You decide your target audience is the company's HR director, CEO and COO. Consider how much they likely know about job-share programs already. The answer will set the tone for the report. If your company has never considered a job-share program, then the report will be both informational and strategic. If the company has considered a job-share program, then the report will be less informational and more persuasive. The hardest part of writing a business report isn't in the writing. It's forming a conclusion and collecting the data necessary to support that conclusion. This involves a variety of skills, including data collection and market analysis. What do you and, in the end, management need to know to make an informed decision about the topic? It is important that your data is well-researched; otherwise, you risk losing credibility. Data gathering itself is going to depend on the type of report that you write. Ensure that the data parameters you choose are concise and relevant to the point of the report. Data may come internally, which means you'll be able to collect it quite quickly. Sales figures, for example, should be available from the sales department with a phone call, meaning you can receive your data and plug it into your report quickly. External data may also be available internally. If a department already performs customer analysis data collection, borrow that department's. You don't need to conduct the research on your own. This will be different for every type of business, but the writer of a business report often doesn't need to conduct firsthand research. For instance, if you are writing a justification/recommendation report, then you have to research all the benefits of your proposed idea and incorporate the research into your report. How you organize your report depends on your objective. For instance, you would organize a compliance report differently than a feasibility report. Once you have an idea of how you want to organize your report, you can write your content. Break up relevant data into separate sections. A business report can't be a big flood of figures and information. Organizing the data into separate sections is key to the success of a well-written business report. For example, keep sales data separate from customer analysis data, each with its own header. Organize the report into appropriate section headers, which may be read through quickly as standalone research, but also supporting the basic objective of the report together. Since some of the sections may depend upon analysis or input from others, you can often work on sections separately while waiting for the analysis to be completed. Draw clear conclusions that follow logically from the data examined in the report. Clearly recommend the best course of action based on those conclusions, if appropriate. Any goals should include specific, measurable actions. Write out any changes in job descriptions, schedules or expenses necessary to implement the new plan. Each statement should directly indicate how the new method will help to meet the goal/solution set forth in the report. The executive summary should be the very first page of the report, but it should be the last thing that you write. The executive summary should present your findings and conclusions and give a very brief overview of what someone would read, should they choose to continue reading the entire report. It's like a trailer for a movie, or an abstract in an academic paper. The executive summary gets its name because it's likely the only thing a busy executive would read. Tell your boss everything important here, in no more than 200-300 words. The rest of the report can be perused if the boss is more curious. In some cases, you may find it helpful to include graphs or charts displaying quantitative data. Use color within the display, as it draws more attention to and helps to differentiate the information. Whenever possible, use bullet points, numbers or boxed data to help with readability. This sets your data apart from the rest of your report and helps to indicate its significance. Generally speaking, visual figures are a great idea for business reports because the writing and the data itself can be a little dry. Don't go overboard, though. All infographics should be relevant and necessary. Use boxes on pages with a lot of text and no tables or figures. A page full of text can be tiresome for a reader. Boxed information can also effectively summarize important points on the page. Depending on what kind of research you've done, you might need to explain where you obtained your information. The purpose of the bibliography or sources page in a business report is to provide a resource for others should they wish to follow up on the data and look into it. Use the appropriate formatting for the citations in your report, based on your industry. Misspellings or basic grammatical errors may give your readers the impression that you didn't put enough effort into the report. These errors can even call into question the credibility of your findings. Also, make sure that you present your information in a clear, concise way. For example, don't overuse fancy words or make your sentences too wordy. Avoid using slang. If your report and audience are both closely tied to a specific industry, it's appropriate to use jargon or technical terms. But you have to take care to not overuse jargon and technical terms. Generally, business writing is written in the passive voice, and this is one of the few instances where passive writing is usually better than active writing. You can often miss errors while proofreading your own work due to the familiarity from writing it. Consider asking someone else in your department who wants the report to succeed to read over it as well. Be open to the feedback. It's better to hear about mistakes from a co-worker than from a boss. Review each comment from the peer review and rewrite the report, taking comments into consideration. . Format the business report as formally as possible, creating a table of contents to make it easy to reference and flip through your report. Include all relevant sections, especially the executive summary and conclusions. The best complement to a thorough, well-researched report is polished packaging. This may include nice folders, binders or paper. The bottom line is that your business report needs to look sharp to intrigue your audience enough to read it. This applies to any graphs or charts included in the report as well.

summary: Determine your objective and format. Identify your audience. Identify what you need to learn. Collect the appropriate data for your report. Organize and write the report. Draw conclusions with specific recommendations. Write the executive summary. Use infographics for applicable data, if necessary. Cite your sources, if necessary. Proofread your report twice. Create a table of contents Package your business report.

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Tap "Meetings" on the bottom menu. Since Lync is closely integrated with Microsoft Outlook, it will automatically sync with the Outlook server and retrieve your schedules. Note that you can only view today's schedule though, not yesterday's and not tomorrow's. Scroll up and down to see what's going on today and which meetings are you invited to. If you want to join an active meeting, just tap "Join Meeting" and Lync will connect your phone to the meeting conference. You don't even need to be near your PC desktop to attend a meeting.
summary: Go to Meetings. Scroll through your schedule. Join a meeting.