Proposals and quotes without unsupported promises
Write proposals customers can hold you to, and catch errors and over-promises before they're sent.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 35 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Identify unsupported promises in a proposal
- Check a quote's arithmetic, dates and terms
- List what a proposal should contain
- Rewrite a risky claim into an accurate one
Course outline
- 1.Proposals without unsupported promisesVideo · 2 min
- 2.Promises you can keepLesson · 14 min
- 3.Checking a quote line by lineLesson · 14 min
- 4.Wording commitments: will, can, plans toLesson · 12 min
- 5.Proposals and quotes without unsupported promises: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 21 questions
- 6.A colleague's over-promising proposalScenario
- 7.Final exam6 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- General consultative-selling practice (discovery, qualification, value)
- Plain-language business writing guidance (general)
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