Training, individual coaching, and online learning to suit your needs
Find the teaching and learning set-up that best suits your needs with one, or a combination, of our three approaches.
Classroom or online team training gives your people the skills and confidence to write powerful and persuasive business communications.
One-on-one training , in person or online, is the quickest way to hone your writing skills and become a powerful communicator.
Learn at your own pace, when and where it suits you. Our online writing school already has over 18 hours of lectures - and we’re adding new content every month.
GRoup training:
Sharpen your team’s skills
Do you or your employees struggle to find the right words?
Are their key messages getting buried in overlong, jargon-filled writing?
Do you worry that a shaky knowledge of grammar is undermining your credibility as a business?
Doris and Bertie will tailor a business writing course to your organisation’s needs, with course materials that draw on real-life examples of your team’s own writing. We usually recommend two half-day workshops - to allow for reflection and practice between sessions. We try to limit classes to a maximum of eight to allow for class discussion and instructor feedback. All our training also includes a 30-minute one-to-one coaching session for every participants, which can be booked at any point within 12 months of the training.
Our courses cover everything from basic grammar to the art of the headline, and they’re designed to be as entertaining and interactive as they are informative.
Courses we’ve created for clients include:
Business writing
Copywriting
Report writing
Tone of voice
Email etiquette
Writing a LinkedIn profile
Editing and proofreading
Grammar refresh
Fees for group workshops
Two half-days of bespoke training for up to eight people + one-to-one coaching for each participant: £3,950 +VAT
COAChING: Gain Confidence,
Find Your Voice
A series of one-to-one Zoom calls with a business writing coach is the quickest,
most powerful way to boost your confidence as a writer.
Typically, writing coaching sessions last around 30-60 minutes. You’ll meet with your coach once a week or once a fortnight – whatever works with your schedule and the writing projects you have on the go. Every session will be structured around a “live” job you’re working on right now, so you get in-depth personalised feedback on real examples of your own writing. Everything you share with your coach is confidential.
Over the course of the training, you’ll learn to express yourself more quickly and more persuasively.
Whether you’re a senior executive, professional communicator or ambitious first-jobber,
working with your very own writing coach will help you find your voice.
Meet your trainer
Dr Clare Lynch is Doris and Bertie’s chief business writing expert. As a trainer and writing coach, she has been described as inspiring, engaging and entertaining.
In the 1990s she worked at the Financial Times and has since helped a wide range of organisations communicate better with their clients, customers and employees.
Clare is also a director at Cambridge Language Education and Research Associates (CLERA), which provides English language training and consultancy to governments, universities, the private sector and schools, both in the UK and overseas
Clare has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and teaches writing skills at the University’s Language Centre. She has designed and taught modules on business English for the University’s Judge Business School.
She also has an LLM (distinction) from the University of London.
“Your session was very useful, thank you. I’ve just written a new advert using the principles you outlined and it’s been favourably received! The biggest takeaway message was to write with feeling, to not be scared of emotional drivers. And cut out multisyllabic corp speak.”
– Katie Kirk, Copywriter, Payplan