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How can you get words to work?

Are you interested in doing better work and providing better service? Are you keen to increase client confidence, boost your credibility, improve staff efficiency and demonstrate compliance with current regulations?

Did you know that one critical skill – clear writing – can help you achieve this?

I can equip your team with the writing skills and confidence to communicate better. What’s more, my training and consultancy services are both time- and cost-effective, producing speedy, relevant results.

Thousands of people have attended my report-writing training since 2006. After a one-day course, clients see up to 50% reduction in management review time within six weeks and find time spent on review more productive.

Investing in sound plain-language techniques results in better report-writing, customer correspondence and internal communication skills – tangible benefits, whatever your work. And, if you work in audit, risk, compliance or information security, the legal and reputational benefits of using plain language are crucial.

To find out more, you can watch me talking about an internal auditor's guide to report writing on The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors - UK & Ireland Facebook livestream. And if you enjoyed the podcast, you'll love my book, Radical Reporting: Writing Better Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security Reports (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press). You can order the second edition here.

You can also watch interviews with me, on a number of recent audit and cybersecurity podcasts, from the podcasts list on the sidebar of this page.

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Last updated: 09/09/2025

If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well.
- Albert Einstein
 
 

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