Writing that works for work

We offer in-person and live webinar courses for groups up to 20 people. Each course is customized to your industry, team, and document types.

Participants regularly tell us, “This is the best course I’ve ever taken,” and “I wish I had taken this workshop 20 years ago.”

That’s because the content is practical, immediately applicable, and you will leave the workshop with a nice piece of work done.

Effective writing training for groups

Stage 1. Learn core skills

Effective Workplace Writing course (by industry)

  • Module 1. Write stronger documents, faster

    Learn what goes wrong with workplace writing, why it’s time consuming, and how to fix it. We walk you through a step-by-step process for creating stronger, more readable documents in half the time.

  • Module 2. Create clear, readable text

    This is the nuts-and-bolts of language. We cover international best practices for structuring sentences, writing concisely, and translating specialized content.

  • Module 3. Edit and review effectively

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More core skill courses

  • The Dos and Don'ts of Using AI to Write for You

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  • Use AI to Think More Deeply and Get Smarter

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  • Edit Documents Effectively

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Stage 2. Practice and deepen

  • Refresher training

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  • Audit documents

    Measure how well workplace documents align with best practices for clarity and readability

  • Document-specific training

    Problem solve the documents you create most frequently

  • Practice workbooks

    Develop specific skills with our workbooks—they are designed to take you to mastery

Stage 3. Advance towards mastery

Advanced courses

Skill-specific courses

Internal coaching—build capacity/train the trainer

Certification (coming soon?)

What we teach you to do

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  • "Best writing course I have ever taken."

    Benoît Clément, Director of Financial Innovation at Verra
    (5 star Google review)

  • “One of the best workshops I've attended. Inspiring and motivating to get better at writing."

    Kris Samraj, Councillor for City of Medicine Hat
    (5 star Google review)

  • "This was the most immediately applicable training I have ever taken. Our whole team got excited. We went back and applied what we learned to our Proposal Guide and cut the page count by 50%."

    Lorraine Brekke, Manager of the Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program

  • "Wordsmith facilitators are as confident, clear and helpful as your writing aims to be. More to learn about effective writing than many might think."

    Chris Taylor, Alberta Education
    (5 star Google review)

  • "I highly recommend Wordsmith. I learned a systematic approach to writing more quickly, clearly and with more persuasion. It was one of the best courses that I've taken since becoming a professional.

    Samantha H
    (5 star Google review)

  • "Sessions were well led by presenters who were very aware of the briefing note process in government. This meant I was able to get maximum value from the information."

    Victoria Laidlaw, Alberta Education
    (5 star Google review)