Streamline Your Writing and Review Process
Identify inefficiency and drastically cut writing and review time
Analyze process steps and time for the briefing note drafting, reviewing, and finalizing cycle in your organization. Wordsmith works with you to:
identify inefficiencies
shorten drafting time
resolve back-and-forth review cycles
create stronger, more consistent end products
The organizations we have worked with have consistently cut process time by 50%. When you consider that cost multiplied across every document you produce in a year, the savings are considerable.
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
Workshop details
We customize our workshops to your organization, team, documents, templates, and style guides
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In-person—Half day (3.5 hours)
Live webinar—Half day (3.5 hours)
We also offer a condensed 1- or 2-hour version.
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High-level decision makers who have some control over the process.
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We meet with you to discuss your current review process, templates, and documents
You decide if you’d like to measure results
We analyze your documents and process
We present recommendations, case studies, and examples
“Lean manufacture” the review process in your organization
Evaluate and improve templates and style guides
Articulate a clear standard and organizational voice
Capture leaders’ preferences and communicate them to writers
Define roles and responsibilities at each stage of the process
Avoid duplicated work
Identify the edits that get made frequently and create guidance to solve them
Give writers clear guidance and receive stronger products
Reduce organizational risk and miscommunication
What you’ll learn
Identify where there’s waste in the current process
Learn practical, easy-to-implement solutions other clients have applied
Reduce the number of edits and back-and-forth reviews
Start the conversation
Our work with Wordsmith has been transformative. Writers and reviewers find writing is faster and easier overall, and our quality assessment measures show quality is improving.
— Sarah Bradley, CEO of Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments
Wordsmith has helped our organization tremendously. We broadly trained our staff in writing reports, and I’ve seen an improvement in the quality of our writing. Reports are clearer, better organized and easier to read. The more staff we can get this training, the better.
—Ray MacIntosh, Chief Financial Officer for the City of Red Deer
Following the workshop, we looked at how we could write more efficiently and easily. We reviewed our report template, set up a system for editing and got to work. It’s been two years, and I can certainly say that we have reaped the benefits. Our once five- to six-page recommendation reports have become two-page reports without compromising meaning.
— Head of a school board
