Corporate Training Providers Editing and Proofreading Services

Eleven of the fourteen people in the room found out on Monday that they were booked for Thursday. The session runs a full day, the feedback form goes around while coats are coming off the backs of chairs, and it averages 4.6 out of 5. Six weeks later their manager is asked what changed and cannot answer, because nobody told her what the day covered or what she was meant to see afterward. The workbook is in a drawer. The follow-up email went out on day three and asked whether people had enjoyed themselves.

The documents we edit for Corporate Training Providers

Proposals and the responses to training briefs behind them arrive at the start of a program, along with needs analysis documentation and program designs. Facilitator guides, session plans, participant workbooks, and job aids follow close behind. The work also covers pre-course communications, manager briefing material, application and follow-up material at three and six weeks, evaluation instruments at every level, case studies and scenario material, e-learning and blended program content, train-the-trainer material, and the reporting that goes back to the client. Our editors work on the documents that surround the training day rather than on the day itself.

What the editing involves

A manager briefing reading "Your team member attended Influencing Skills on 14 March" gives a manager nothing to watch for on the Monday afterward. The version we work toward names the behaviors the design team has listed, the question worth raising at the next one-on-one, and the requirement the manager can drop. We do not choose the behaviors. The provider and its instructional designers do that, and the list arrives with the program design. Our part is that the same behaviors appear in the briefing, the workbook, and the follow-up, worded the same way in each.

Job aids fail by being a condensed version of the day. Four pages recapping the model compete with everything else on a desk, while one card carrying the sequence in the order it is used can be read between two meetings. Pre-work that asks participants to read a case study reads differently from pre-work that asks them to bring a problem from their own week, and that version hands the facilitator material the room already recognizes. A follow-up asking "How did you find the session?" collects opinion, while one asking what the participant tried and what happened collects something the provider can report on.

Client reporting is where those documents pay for themselves. A report built on a satisfaction average says 4.6 out of 5 and stops there. A report drawn from the six-week follow-up can quote what participants attempted and what their managers observed, which is a different conversation at renewal. The evaluation instrument has to ask for that material at the outset, and the wording of its questions decides what comes back.

Confidentiality and the limits of our role

Everything you send us is treated in confidence, including client material, program designs, and evaluation data. We are editors, not learning and development consultants, and we offer no opinion on program design, methodology, or evaluation findings. What we can do is make the documents around the training day say what you intend them to say.