Course description
Policy and Procedure Writing In-house Course – in-house course for teams and companies
This in-house course on policy and procedure writing covers best practice in writing and editing these critical documents. The course can be tailored to each team or organisation's main type of written content and provides practical techniques for improving readability, effectiveness and usability.
Unclear policy and procedure documents can easily be misunderstood or misconstrued. This can lead to inconsistencies, inefficiencies and bad feeling – it could even leave you open to legal action.
But with clear, active and specific writing, every employee will know where they stand and how they should act in any professional situation at your organisation.
On this course, your team will learn how to write policies and procedures that will keep your business running smoothly as you work towards your objectives.
The training will be as unique as your organisation. To develop the materials for your course, we’ll consult with you and create targeted exercises and worksheets based on real examples of your policy and procedure documents. This means you can be sure the training will be relevant to your team’s jobs – and they can be sure of how to apply the techniques as soon as they’re back at their desks.
This course also includes a pre-course assessment of participants' writing samples to identify strengths and weaknesses. This allows each participant to understand how they can apply the techniques to make rapid improvements in everything they write.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is ideal for teams who have to write or edit policy and procedure documents for their organisation. This course is highly customisable and delegates of all writing capacities are welcome.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon completing this course, delegates will know how to:
- identify their objectives and profile their readers
- understand how to communicate key messages
- create a logical structure for their policies and procedures
- strip out needless waffle and jargon
- write in clear, active language for policies and procedures people will read and
understand - write subheadings that guide and engage the reader
- avoid common grammar traps and proofread documents for errors.
Training Course Content
The content of this course is tailored to the specific needs and style of each team or company. Typical course content may include these modules:
- Producing reader-centred documents
- Getting the structure right
- Making the information flow
- Writing engaging subheadings
- Keeping people reading by making content 'flow'
- Maximum readability – choosing words that make a difference
- Designing for impact
- Using punctuation logically and helpfully.
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Why choose Emphasis Training Limited
Running tailored training and consultancy since 1998
More than 80,000 delegates from 1,000 organisations worldwide
Delegates rate our training 9/10, with an average NPS rating of 64
Reviews
Average rating 5
Really helpful to have most of the team go through the same training, specifically designed to be relevant to our work. We should have common understanding of expectations and a...
Excellent content (and delivery) by Wendy.
Expenses
Emphasis Training in-house training programmes provide teams and companies with training solutions that are both customisable and cost-effective. Depending on the number of participants and specific requirements, course fees will vary.
Included in course fees
- Individual pre-course analysis of a writing sample
- Post-course writing support
*This training programme is suitable for groups of 4 or more delegates.
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Wendy was a great facilitator and kept us engaged throughout the day.