Writing skills training using AI and online tools
Writing skills just got a whole more interesting. Everyone using ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini as their AI assistant are seeing the benefits. It can save lots of time and enables you to focus on being more strategic. ChatGPT is pretty good at giving about 50% but we all need now to develop our editing, checking and fine-tuning skills before we send our final copies out. Writing is a difficult skill and how you write reveals a lot about your thought processes. Our best thinking takes place when we are writing.
Clear writing indicates clear thinking and this training helps staff to develop their critical thinking skills as well as drafting and editing.
Course content
We take you through the stages of writing
Clear and precise writing techniques
- The elements of effective professional writing – clear, simple, precise,
- Writing style – tone, register and point of view,
- Word choice – the use and misuse of jargon, eliminate adverbial phrases
- Topic sentences that help build effective paragraphs,
- Text cohesion – connecting / linking devices: words and ideas.
- An introduction to generative AI and what it can (and cannot) do for policy communicators
- The main features of ChatGPT or Copilot for communications
- How to set the most effective AI prompts to get the best results
What you take away – assessed written tasks
You send us sample of your writing and we will assess and make tracked changes comments to help you understand the areas you need to work on. You take away a version of your text with notes that will help you to adjust your writing. This is the only way to learn and no other training company provides this level of support.
Format
We will do some fun experiments with AI and use our brains to scrutinise, edit and fine tune our communications. We examine how you can best use AI tools (ChatGPT) to speed up the structuring of your texts and how other online tools can help you to measure the readability of your writing. Our writing skills training will help you to improve with practice and feedback from a trainer. We are the only training company that gives you pre-course writing tasks that we review with ‘tracked changes’ comments and recommendations.
In-person and online
In- person: We bring people together in groups at your office.
Webinars and online coaching: We run webinars for groups and online follow up coaching for individuals.
Online learning: We provide learners with online reading materials, tasks and cheat sheets.
Follow up training
We can tailor a programme to include our more specialised writing courses – Writing for the Web, Writing for the Media and Writing Position Papers. Many of our clients follow this up with Presentation skills training or Chairing Meetings.
For more details and a quote please contact us at info@formativecoms.com