Document-specific training
Focused training for the documents you write often
These courses draw on our experience over many years with that document type, as well as input from your organization and example documents you send us. Each course:
analyzes the audience, purpose, and special problems of that document
discusses the steps to draft that document most efficiently
works through a scenario to apply the principles live
uses before-and-after examples to model common problems and useful solutions
discusses working with templates (if they apply)
Gain confidence and clarity and fewer cycles of review.
-
Briefing notes and memos
Give decision makers clear, skilled, and concise analysis
-
Board reporting
Deliver clearer reporting and metrics in fewer pages
-
Business cases
Build clear, well-evidenced cases quickly
-
Council reports
Build public trust by writing strong, clear council reports
-
Court briefs and decisions
Marry facts and law efficiently, persuasively, and accessibly
-
Environmental assessments
Communicate findings clearly for multiple stakeholders (and draft more quickly)
-
Governance and strategy documents
Develop clear, high-level principles and strategies and effective tools to implement them
-
Investigation reports
Communicate objective, fair findings in a way readers understand and accept
-
Marketing and comms plans
Refine messages to be accurate, persuasive, and flexible for different platforms and audiences
-
Policies and procedures
Develop clear guidance documents that staff understand and comply with
-
Proposals, RFPs, and grants
Write clear, powerful proposals or responses to RFPs (or create stronger RFPs for bidders)
-
Rules, standards, and bylaws
Set out requirements that are easier to understand, comply with, and enforce
-
Speaking notes
Set speakers up for success with clear, usable notes and best practices
-
Style guides and writing standards
Develop common principles and goals for documents in your organization or department
-
Technical reports
Write technical reports that stand out from the norm because of their clarity and organization
-
Templates
Build templates to reproduce clarity and consistency (and don’t make a writer’s job harder)
Get in touch
Some of our clients
What people say about our training
Thank you again for an outstanding writing course. I found that this has fundamentally changed how I approach every email and every newly created document.
—Public school board manager
I’ve been taking training sessions with the federal government for 24 years, and this is by far the best one I’ve taken.
—Director of a federal
regulatory body
I’ve taken this course three times, and I’ll probably take it again. Each time I learn something new and I continue to build my skills as a writer.
—Investigator with child and family services