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Our live webinars allow individuals and small teams to access the same training we offer to larger groups.
The content is practical, interactive, and hands on
You will collaborate, discuss, ask questions, learn from peers, and do exercises. Each person comes with a document in mind to write. We will walk you through a writing process live to get a real piece of work done during the workshop. -
We offer:
Effective Writing Fundamentals—Learn foundational skills and international best practices for modern workplace writing
Effective Briefing Notes—Develop the skills to create strong briefing notes and resolve common problems
Coming soon:
Write Effectively with AI—Use AI to test your thinking and strengthen your writing. This course is a step-by-step workflow.
Use AI to Think More Deeply and Get Smarter—Get the right relationship with AI as an analysis tool and use it to refine your thinking
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Meet with us to work on a specific document, skill, or problem. We can also act as a second set of eyes and give input on important documents.
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You send us a document you wrote, and we analyze it. We give you thoughtful written feedback and have a short meeting with you to discuss it.
This is the kind of guidance most writers have never received. Our feedback encourages what you’re doing well and gives practical guidance about how to get better.
Choose training that fits your needs
Writing training for individuals
Results you can expect
Stronger documents written 50% faster
Greater confidence and less stress
Transferable skills you can take to any job
Fewer back-and-forth edits
We offer workshops tailored to specific types of writing. You can choose the one that fits you best. Each webinar covers:
understanding the research-based principles behind excellent writing
a step-by-step process to help you create strong documents quickly
taking your expertise and making it actionable for a variety of audiences
solutions to common workplace writing challenges and time sinks
when AI is helpful and when to avoid it
Live workshops—open registration
Think deeper to write better
We are a team of multi-taskers, and I didn't multi-task once in this entire course. The workshop was incredibly interactive and engaging. I know for a fact our team has takeaways that will improve our writing.
—Manager at a federal think tank
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Effective Municipal Writing
Municipal writers produce a wide range of documents every day—from quick emails to formal council reports and public notices.
Our Effective Municipal Writing workshop provides practical tools to help you write clearly and effectively for a variety of audiences, using real examples from municipal documents.
Live virtual workshop
November 24 and 26, 2026
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Effective Workplace Writing
This is our foundational writing training. It covers core skills for writing both private- and public-sector documents.
We introduce you to an entirely new way to approach writing—one that gets around all the common writing struggles people face. The content is applicable to reports, briefings, policies, procedures, proposals, emails, and more.
Live virtual workshop
December 8 and 10, 2026
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Effective Briefing Notes
Live virtual public workshop
Dates TBD
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Think Deeper to Write Faster
This half-day webinar covers our step-by-step process to create stronger documents in 50% of the time.
The material applies to every document you write—reports, briefings, policies, procedures, emails, and more. This half-day can be taken as a standalone course or as Part 1 of our longer Effective Writing course.
Live virtual public workshop
January 12, 2027
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My mind is blown—Where have you been the last 20 years? Before everyone was just harping about audience, but I couldn’t translate that into how to actually write. I am excited to draft this memo now. I feel like I have wind in my sails.
—Lawyer from one of the world’s top-performing law firms
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The personalized feedback on my document was invaluable. I never felt like I was getting it quite right before. Now I know exactly how to improve.
Policy analyst with Government of Alberta
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I can't believe how well Wordsmith understood the work I do.
Investigator of an ombudsman service
