Develop in-house writing expertise
We offer Train-the-Trainer workshops to develop internal expertise. We identify strong writers, reviewers, and managers with the skill and interest to become in-house writing coaches and instructors.
This group receives additional writing and editing training to:
teach the same ISO-aligned principles we use
coach to a clear standard
deliver short internal courses
Built from our multi-year work with Alberta Health and Alberta Justice, it’s hands-on and uses your templates and real documents. This deeper training means the gains stick and reliance on external support drops.
Train the Trainer
“The skills and ability to write concisely with meaning are so important. The value of clear communication and rediscovered time in one’s day cannot be overlooked.”
- Manager at Alberta Health
“Well-designed, well-taught course. I highly recommend taking this course twice.”
-Director at Alberta Health (it was her second time taking the course)
Program details
This deeper training means the gains stick and reliance on external support drops
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Strong writers, reviewers, and managers who have taken our foundational training, love to learn, and have interest in becoming internal writing experts.
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We build each program by consulting with you. Typical components are:
Advanced training course (3, 3.5-hour Zoom sessions or 1.5-day, in-person workshop)
Multiple half-day advanced training in editing, facilitation, and coaching
In-depth feedback on each trainee’s writing
One-on-one coaching from Wordsmith
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Each participant receives a takeaway coaching binder with material, templates, and checklists they can use to deepen their skills and work with other writers.
Workshop content
Master international best practices
Support others to improve
Streamline the organizational writing and review process
Master best writing practices and advanced editing skills
Receive practical, thoughtful feedback on your own writing
Articulate best practices for writers and reviewers
Give skilled, constructive, specific feedback that encourages continuous learning
Reduce reviewing time for important, time-sensitive documents
Edit with multiple reviewers more efficiently
Conduct internal quality audits and track improvements
Learn coaching and facilitation skills
A case study
Wordsmith collaborated with Alberta Health to develop a multi-year program to strengthen internal policy writing and briefing notes. This program included:
foundational and advanced writing training
personalized feedback and coaching to hundreds of individual writers
revising briefing note templates and the guidance for writers within them
developing internal capacity by identifying strong writers and giving them extra training to become Health’s internal writing coaches
working with Alberta Health coaches we had trained to develop short internal writing courses the coaches delivered, including a short briefing note course
editing important policy documents
“This was the most immediately applicable training I have ever taken. Our whole team got excited. We applied what we learned to our Proposal Guide and cut the page count by 50%.”
“Immediately after the session, our team was already asking when we could take the next workshop. They said, “If we can only take one more training this year, it has to be this one!”
