Overview
Accurate and concise writing is key to successful communication at work. Increasingly high-pressured work environments often mean that emails, reports, summaries, and articles are completed at speed, but too often at the expense of accurate writing.
Proofing and editing your work is vital to ensure that it is accurate, understood and credible. Exercising good proofing and editing techniques across all your correspondences is crucial to guarantee that you communicate the exact message you intended. Spellcheck may be a useful basic tool, however, can’t be relied upon for every error.
By learning advanced skills and techniques to put into practice, proofing and editing your work can be an efficient and speedy process. Through workshops and practical exercises designed to support rapid learning, this course enables you to dramatically improve your written communication skills and return to work with a confidence in your proofing and editing abilities.
Unlocking the Power of Virtual
Our virtual courses have been designed with you in mind. From group exercises in breakout rooms to live chat, whiteboards and interactive polls, we use a range of tools and techniques to ensure that you can connect with your trainer; network and share best practice with your peers and leave the day with the skills you need.
Our courses provide you with an interactive and engaging learning environment that can be accessed from any location, helping you to continue to connect, learn and grow. Click here to discover more!
Please note this course uses Zoom to deliver the course.
Please see below past delegate testimonials:
“Susan is a really great teacher. On Zoom it can be hard to engage people but she really got all the attendees chatting and contributing throughout the day. The day was set out really well. I enjoyed the group tasks as it gave us lots of opportunity to practically apply what we were learning about, rather than just listening, or talking. 10/10 would recommend” – External Communications Officer, Leonard Cheshire
“I would really recommend the course. Sue is a fantastic trainer and the day passed by far too quickly. Lots of helpful resources to take away, also very impressed with the smooth transition to online learning. Thank you!” – Senior Events Officer, King’s College London
Susan works with organisations and individuals to improve their written communications skills.
She worked as a regional and national newspaper journalist before setting up a full-service communications company, now established for 30 years.
She works with public and private sector organisations to help with:
- Effective emails
- Report writing
- Briefings and submissions
- Persuasive and influential writing techniques
- Promotional writing
- Effective complaint handling
- Communicating complex information for non-technical readers.
Her recent clients include Legal & General, HSBC, BRIT, the Law ...
Learning Outcomes
- Develop effective skills to improve the way you proof and edit your professional work
- How to spot common mistakes to improve the way you proof your work
- Edit for style, length, consistency and credibility
- Confidently use a range of editing techniques to create text that readers want to read
- Recognise and overcome challenges to create coherent, effective and efficient copy
