Effective Briefing Note Proofreading

Perfect and polish the final product

This course is tactical and hands on. We cover the most effective strategies for identifying final changes, creating consistency, and putting the finishing touches on strong content.

Workshop details

We customize our workshops to your organization, team, documents, templates, and style guides

- In-person—Half day (3.5 hours)
- Live webinar—Half day (3.5 hours)
Anyone who proofreads and is the final stop for a briefing note
1. We meet with you to discuss your group's challenges and goals
2. You send us a series of representative documents
3. We analyze your documents
4. We customize our course material using excerpts from your documents
5. We hold the workshop

What you’ll learn

improving thoroughness when proofreading
speeding up the process to finalize briefings
using software effectively—when to rely on it and when not
tools to identify errors
using track changes in Word and Microsoft Editor
proofreading checklists
a list of things to check by hand
aligning with templates and style guides
creating a consistent final product
trick your brain into seeing the small things it might otherwise skip
how to automate repeated tasks

Improve consistency, speed, and accuracy

Align with templates and style guides

Use software to your advantage

Before taking this course, it took me three full days to finalize a briefing note…After being halfway through and learning new techniques, I finished a briefing note in an hour and a half with limited editing! This course is a huge win for me and the work I do daily, thank you!”

— Federal briefing note writer

Great workshop, I learned a lot and having BN examples that align so well with our work made it easy to see how to apply the suggestions. This will help me greatly when reviewing BNs for team members and other teams.”

— Alberta Education

This training was presented extremely well. I have taken past BN training from other organizations that was not as effective. The activities and documents being ready to use as we moved through the workshop kept me engaged and helped to fortify the steps in proofreading.”

— Alberta Education