Writing & Editing Support Services

  • Presentation writing (and rehearsal)
  • ‘Time short’/urgent writing support services – urgent reports, submissions, applications
  • Grant and submission writing workshops
  • Policy and Procedures Writing for Government
  • Council Report Writing
  • Grant and Submission Writing
  • Writing of state and federal government and philanthropic grant applications
  • Review of drafted applications
  • Writing of project acquittals
  • Writing of award nominations
  •  – Infrastructure, planning and service delivery projects
  •  – Order of Australia

Workshop 1 – Plain English Writing/Communication for Government Workshops

Our workshops aim:

  • for clarity and understanding
  • to minimise communication barriers
  • for ease of reading
  • to minimise jargon and confusing terminology

Our workshops focuse on:

  • Plain English Writing Fundamentals e.g. simplifying messages and structuring  content; active and passive terminology; sentence structure; avoiding jargon
  • Understanding the audience e.g. recognising audience needs, preferred communication style, avoiding overload
  • Recognising and minimising organisation, industry and personal barriers to plain English Writing
  • Organisation ‘style guide’ vs ‘writing guide’
  • Report, presentation and submission writing
  • Editing and proof-reading

Workshop 2 – Presentation & Public Speaking with Ease & Humour

Our workshop focuses on:

  • Confidence, ease and authenticity
  • Reading and understanding an audience and engaging the audience
  • Staying on point, managing distractions
  • Verbal and non-verbal skills
  • Structuring the information and ‘painting the picture’/journeying with the audience
  • Visual prompts & aids
  • Dealing with difficult questions

Workshop 3 – Meeting & Workshop Facilitation

Our workshop focuses on:

  • Preparation – an investment in outcome. Facilitator preparation; particpant information and prep
  • Clarity of outcomes, expectations
  • Deciding on best meeting/workshop format
  • Understanding the context, background
  • Communication skills – e.g. active listening, understanding the roadblocks
  • Identifying and understanding participant needs and outcome aspirations
  • The feedback loop
  • Recognising the unresolved, the unspoken, the triggers
  • The followup