Make it easy to say ‘yes’

This course is built for teams who compete for projects, funding, contracts, or partnerships. We give you tools that make writing proposals and grants easier and delivers stronger, more persuasive proposals.

You’ll learn how to:

identify critical requirements
structure content to be clear and compelling to read
write persuasively and impressively
work effectively when dealing with forms, templates, and complex requirements
create polished submissions—on time and with less stress

Effective Proposals, RFPs, and Grants

Some of our clients

Alberta Energy Regulator
Associated Engineering
Canada Energy Regulator
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Department of Ocean and Fisheries Canada
ISL Engineering
Ministries of Energy and Minerals, Environment and Climate Change, Lands, Infrastructure, Parks and Protected Areas
International Association for Impact Assessment
Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board
Nunavut Impact Review Board
Verra

Workshop details

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

- In-person—1.5 days (11.5 hours)
- Live webinar—3, 3.5-hour sessions on Zoom (split over a few days or a week).
Anyone who drafts, reviews, or responds to RFPs will benefit from this session.
The course is applicable to:
- new proposal writers
- experienced writers who want to be able to draft faster and create stronger content
- reviewers and leaders who give writers direction and review RFPs and proposals
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

What you’ll learn

Cut the time to draft RFPs and proposals in half

Communicate expertise and requirements clearly

Apply a step-by-step process to produce strong, compelling proposals
Write confidently and quickly
Understand common problems and how to resolve them
Get clear about criteria, requirements, and outcomes
Write clearly and persuasively to multiple audiences with different needs
Organize content effectively and avoid repetition
Use document design and formatting to create readability and be persuasive
Include the right amount of supporting information
Deliver technical precision even to non-technical audiences
Build the right tone
Take less time to adapt to forms, templates, and requirements, even if the original document is confusing

Demonstrate value persuasively without overselling

I was reflecting on the best courses I’ve taken and this was hands down one of the best. So applicable to my daily work.

— Ministry of Environment and Parks

The training was beneficial and will definitely help me review documents, RFDs, and RFPs before submitting them to the SLT Team and Council.”

—LGAA

I saw an immediate and lasting improvement in my branch and the organization as a whole. Products became much more concise. The biggest benefit was that it gave people permission to leave extraneous details out. It definitely reduced the time spent on reviews and revisions.”

— Executive Director of the Public Service Commission