Writing skills: freshen up your writing

Course summary

Does your organisation's writing style match its aims and personality? Do your messages come across clearly? Could you write more concisely, more engagingly and more effectively?

We can customise a stimulating, half-day session for your team that is guaranteed to raise their game. And we’ll leave you with a useful toolkit to continue the work afterwards.

Course outline

We will discuss the course with you first, and tailor it entirely to your needs.

Topics include:  

• understanding your aims
• connecting with your readers, keeping them interested
• finding the right tone and language
• writing for impact and action
• simplifying, without being simplistic
• writing for different audiences
• brushing up on grammar and punctuation
• editing and reviewing your documents
• giving feedback without giving offence
• a year of free support from your trainer

"Really useful and the trainer was knowledgeable and adapted the course to our needs." RJ, Citizenship Foundation

"A positive trainer and the level was accessible for all abilities. Very patient and calm which made for a friendly and positive learning environment." SB, Citizenship Foundation

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at any organisation that would like to bring a blast of fresh air into its written communications. It is suitable for teams of up to 12 people, ideally those who regularly work together - a rare opportunity to stop and reflect, as a group, on one of your most important activities.

The Centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, private sector and corporate sector.

What will this course help me do: learning outcomes?

This course will freshen up your organisation’s writing style. It will show you new ways of approaching writing tasks, provide some problem-solving shortcuts, and leave you with a well-stocked toolkit. Over time, you will communicate more effectively with all your audiences – staff, stakeholders, funders, the media and the general public.

Other courses to consider

This course is a half-day (three-hour) session. If you have more time and would like to study writing skills in more detail, take a look at our one day writing skills course or our two day Business writing skills course. You may also be interested in the Centre's other courses in writing skills. You could also consider our two most popular writing courses: the Centre's Proofreading course and Minute taking course.

Course dates

This course is run on request. This means that we will keep your details on file and once we have at least three people interested in the course we will contact you to let you know and to schedule a date. Please contact us to log your interest in this course.

Alternatively we can also run this as an in-company course. Find out more about in-company training.