In-House: Effective Copywriting Skills

Overview

Knowing how to communicate with key stakeholders, service users and customers in your copy is vital to enhancing engagement. However, adapting your copy so that it works for different audiences is extremely challenging.

Attend our Effective Copywriting Skills course to ensure that you are able to identify the needs of your audience and to learn what techniques will make your copywriting successful.

By running this Copywriting course for your organisation In-House, your staff will become equipped with the tools to better understand your audience and ensure that your copy is engaging and compelling. Through a range of theory, practical exercises and best practice examples, leave the day with the confidence to consistently produce effective and persuasive copy.

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Learning Outcomes

Learn how to use the best tools to help you understand your audience
Acquire a practical framework to help write engaging and persuasive copy
Examine good and bad examples of copywriting
Ascertain the key components of writing engaging copy
Successfully engage and persuade your audience

All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified, with signed certificates available upon request for event.

Enquire About In-House Training

To speak to someone about a bespoke training programme, please contact us:

0800 542 9414
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Agenda

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09:45 - 10:00

Trainer’s Introduction and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 11:00

Research and Understand Your Audience

In this session, find out how to engage with key stakeholders, services users and customers.

Establish how to quickly decipher information on your audience
Learn how to adapt your copy so that it works for different audiences
Understand the importance of the right tone of voice and language
Identify how to take a flexible approach to writing copy: academic, political or policy
Learn from examples of poor and best practice copywriting

11:00 - 11:15

Morning Break

11:15 - 12:30

Defining Your Message

Learn effective methods to analyse your subject, and create a clear, compelling narrative that will appeal to your audience

How to structure a piece of writing to make your organisation appeal to service users
Effective features and benefits analysis
Learn technical details of a policy or product
Create a compelling story
Understand the psychology of storytelling

12:30 - 13:15

Lunch

13:15 - 14:15

Create a Comprehensive Copywriting Toolkit

Learn methods to free yourself from jargon-heavy blurbs, and put your message into readable, plain English readers will engage with.

Understand the mechanics of writing
Using rhymes to deliver messages
Avoid monotonous writing
Understand what makes digital and social media content successful
Learn how to do press releases to engage with key service users

14:15 - 15:00

Copywriting Editing Masterclass

In this session, learn how to quickly check the effectiveness of your copy.

Know how to ensure your finished copy is accurate, presentable, professional, and does exactly the job you need it to

15:00 - 15:15

Afternoon Break

15:15 - 16:00

Writing Put into Practice

During this workshop session, take the opportunity to put everything from the day into practice

Receive personal feedback from the Trainer
Work through specific examples that are relevant to your organisation

16:00 - 16:15