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  • Best practice
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Kickstart Your PR!

Two-day intensive public relations workshop

  • Capturing media attention
  • Brand recognition
  • Engaging content
  • Supporting sales and marketing

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Mental health and wellness for communications professionals

  • Beating Burnout
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Kickstart Your PR!

Two-day intensive public relations workshop

  • Capturing media attention
  • Brand recognition
  • Engaging content
  • Supporting sales and marketing

Mastering the Art of Writing

How to write almost anything

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Training Overview

Make procrastination a thing of the past. Produce faster first drafts, tighter seconds and ensure you deliver clear and concise messages with everything you write.

You are a busy person. You are constantly under pressure, thinking on your feet and juggling priorities while trying to write a multitude of content for publication.

Mastering the art of writing shows hectic professionals how to plan, draft and edit any piece of writing so that it's not only quicker and easier to write but quicker and easier for the target audience to read.

How will I benefit?

You'll use a proven framework to speed up the planning and drafting process. You'll produce a final draft that your intended audience can understand and act upon immediately. And you'll feel more confident in your ability to tackle any writing job.

What will I learn?

  • How to approach any piece of writing using the Seven Stage technique
  • How to tailor your writing to your intended audience
  • How to get to the point quickly and keep your audience interested
  • How to find the right message and stay focused throughout
  • How to shorten wordy sentences and lengthy paragraphs
  • How to replace outdated language and jargon with modern Plain English
  • How to be clear and concise in everything you write

Who should attend?

This course is for anyone who writes for internal or external audiences.

What else do I need to know?

This full-day workshop uses exercises and examples with a variety of techniques to help you improve the content you write every day.

How Big Fish Training Works

Got a team to train? Most courses are delivered direct either in person or via live video for groups of 6 - 12 people. These sessions are tailored to your specific needs. You just need to tell us what they are! Get in touch now for a friendly chat about what you need to achieve.

Want a course just for you? We run special sessions throughout the year and have a growing number of online courses. If you can't find what you need on the site, get in touch now and we can help.

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What delegates say about Mastering the Art of Writing:

The session was extremely useful and offered a good balance of interaction, advice and tips and feedback.

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Very helpful -really crystallised for me the key things to think about before I embark on a writing task

Very useful, particularly around structuring and writing and how to approach different types of writing. The grammar bit was scary but useful!

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It was very useful. I learned much more about business writing generally, and I'll definitely be putting what I've learned into practice.

I enjoyed the fact that it was broken up with info and activities. Also that it was tailored to what we were doing.

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Very useful. Tailored to our needs.

Very useful. There are lots of basic skills covered, that, as a junior, you're not taught in PR

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The course was 'hands on' rather than having the info simply presented to us. We were taught how to put the skills into practice.

Would you recommend the course to a colleague? Definitely. I feel that both junior and senior team members could benefit from this course.

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Lorraine was a great presenter. Good mix of presentation and activities.

Sounds good! How do I book?

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