Managing other people’s writing will help you build your team’s skills with time-saving techniques for explaining expectations, reducing revisions, and making sure they do the work (not you).
Who is it for?
Beneficial for both lawyers and supervisors.
Course content
Live training overview
This Managing Other People’s Writing course helps you to get the best written work from your team. It will help take the pain out of documentation – when the work produced by your team doesn’t bear enough resemblance to what you were expecting.
Content
- Diagnosing the problems
- Explaining your criteria
- Providing information about the context and the reader
- Insisting on clear objectives
- Helping with organisation – outlines and structural tools
- Checking for ‘flow’ in paragraphs and sentences
- Grammar, spelling and punctuation for grown-ups
- Highlighting key points effectively – persuasive writing
- Explaining how to change the emphasis and tone
- Making sure they review and polish their work
Outcomes
As a result of attending the course, you will:
- delegate and supervise written work quickly and effectively;
- give knowledgeable feedback that doesn’t duck the issues;
- set clear criteria for the final approval of work; and
- enable your team to produce higher quality first drafts.
Live online format
Based on real drafting work – discussion of common problems and techniques with tutor feedback
Face-to-face Format
- Workshop with in-tray exercises based on the team’s work. Delegates benefit from discussions with their peers about effective techniques.
- Coaching for individuals
Delegates
Lawyers and supervisors who want to improve the quality of writing in their teams
Duration
2 hours
Coaching training overview
One-to-one session helping you get the best written work from your team.
Content
Possible content tailored to your needs:
- Diagnosing the problems
- Explaining your criteria
- Providing information about the context and the reader
- Insisting on clear objectives
- Helping with organisation – outlines and structural tools
- Checking for ‘flow’ in paragraphs and sentences
- Grammar, spelling and punctuation for grown-ups
- Highlighting key points effectively – persuasive writing
- Explaining how to change the emphasis and tone
- Making sure they review and polish their work
Outcomes
As a result of attending the course, you will:
- delegate and supervise written work quickly and effectively;
- give knowledgeable feedback that doesn’t duck the issues;
- set clear criteria for the final approval of work; and
- enable your team to produce higher quality first drafts.
Format
Based on real drafting work – discussion of common problems and techniques with tutor feedback
Delegates
Lawyers and supervisors who want to improve the quality of writing in their teams
Duration
1 hour
