Help your team finish drafts and develop their skills
For: Managers and project leaders who review other people’s drafts
Level: Intermediate
Time: 2 hours – ½ day
Many managers and project leaders find reviewing their team’s writing difficult and dispiriting. Too often, they get mired down with track changes or end up re-writing rather than reviewing.
This programme is designed specifically to help reviewers develop a better way of working with writers. They’ll learn how to set their team members up for success at the beginning of projects. They’ll be clearer about what they are going to do and not do.
Reviewers will discover how to give clear feedback so writers can finish the project to a high standard. And they’ll learn how to coach writers so they can develop their skills and produce better work in future.
Ultimately, this programme will help you continuously improve the quality of your organisation’s communications over the long-run.
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Your reviewers will be able to:
- Reduce the time they spend reviewing and editing team members’ writing
- Improve the quality of their feedback so communications are finished to a higher standard
- Develop team members’ writing skills by coaching them effectively
Content for Reviewing Other People’s Work
During the programme, your team will learn about:
Setting the scope of reviews with writers
- Setting writers up for success at the beginning of projects
- Briefing writers about what they need to do before reviews
- Defining what reviewers will do and not do when they are working on drafts
Reviewing drafts
- Using your house style and key readability principles in their reviews
- Reviewing content – especially the key messages and argument
- Reviewing style – including design, layout and consistency of terminology
- Reviewing accuracy – including facts, grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Using track changes effectively
- Avoiding introducing errors during the editing process
Developing team members’ writing skills
- Giving constructive feedback so writers can finish the communication properly and
quickly - Coaching writers so they can build on their strengths and overcome their challenges
Developing their own editing skills
- Requesting feedback about their reviews from writers
- Implementing writers’ feedback when they are doing future reviews
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Testimonials
“This training will be part of my toolkit for effective and efficient reviews of our investment papers.”
“The tools and techniques taught in the session will help me improve the quality and speed of my review process and, therefore, improve the quality and speed of my team’s output”.
“Margaret’s techniques will save me hours and make my reviews of committee papers more efficient.”
Participants, Waterland PE
“Brilliant session! It made me think of the way I edit in a whole new way.”
“This has been great. It has given me a lot to think about in my work.”
“Really applicable strategies for our day-to-day work”
Participants, The Risk Advisory Group
Your training programme will include implementation resources and support to help your team make fast progress with their writing skills.
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My training draws on my 25 years’ experience as a business writer, presenter and communications professional.
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I’m based in London and work with clients
across the UK and internationally.
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If you’d like to have a chat about Reviewing Other People’s Writing for your team, please send me a message.