Training

Writing that works for work

Get clearer, faster, and more confident in your writing.

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.

Writing is how you get the ‘real work’ done

When writing works, so does your organization

When writers get the training they need, they feel a sense of mastery. Documents take half the time to produce and are much clearer. Reviewers get to go home at night. Decision makers receive strong, dependable analysis.

What our training delivers

  • Shorter drafting times—from writers to final approval

  • Better analysis, rationale, and recommendations

  • Tools for clear, concise text

  • Before-and-after examples using your own documents

  • Written products that need much less editing

  • Skills to translate legal and technical language

  • The skill to flex to different audiences

  • International best practices in plain-language drafting

  • Applied, active learning that builds confidence

  • A reference manual and desk-side reminder card

We customize every workshop
we teach

We tailor each session to the organization we’re working with. We adapt our training to reflect:

  • your team’s goals and struggles

  • your context, templates, and organization’s culture

  • best practices for the documents you write

  • the skills and experience of the group

Workplace writing workshops by industry

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

—Member of the Executive Team, Public Service Commission

Wordsmith has helped our organization tremendously.  We broadly trained our staff in writing reports and I’ve seen an improvement in our writing. The reports are clearer, better organized, and simply easier to read. The more staff we can get this training for, the better.

—Ray MacIntosh, Chief Financial Officer of
the City of Red Deer

Wordsmith has become a one-word metaphor for better writing. Most staff in our branch participated in a two-day plain language workshop. They returned motivated and inspired, with an understanding of the writing process and practical tips they started to put into place immediately. 

—Mildred Klassen, Director in a Government of Alberta department