We’ve created some additional resources to help you when you’re writing policies and procedures. These include a guide and a checklist to help you get started with writing a new policy. They highlight the key information that should be in every policy, and help you get over “writer’s block”. There’s also a checklist to help… Read more »
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Writing reports and proposals more efficiently using the AsciiDoc lightweight markup language
An example of how you could use the AsciiDoc lightweight markup language to write reports and proposals more efficiently. This video is part of our Advanced Technical Communication training course bundle. Transcript Hello, I’m Ellis Pratt from Cherryleaf. We’ve just put together a little presentation recording of an experiment we’ve done to look at something… Read more »
What are the most common mistakes organisations make with their policies and procedures
We’re running another Question of the Week on social media. This week’s question is: What are the most common mistakes organisations make with their policies and procedures? We plan to follow this up at a later stage with suggestions on how to prevent or fix these mistakes. You can add your answer by using the comments… Read more »
Our next policies and procedures writing course will be on the 1st March
We’ve scheduled our next policies and procedures writing course. It will be on the 1st March 2018, at our usual training venue next to Waterloo Bridge in central London. We get delegates from a variety of backgrounds, especially from care homes, housing associations, local councils, and technology companies.
Staff handbook written in Word and converted to a responsive Web layout
In recent posts, we’ve been describing different ways to publish policy and procedure documents online. Here’s an example of a staff handbook that has been converted from Word to a responsive web layout. The home page provides links to the main sections in the handbook. In this example, we also changed many of the sentences… Read more »