Patricia Haddock

How a Writing Coach Can Help Your Employees

I’m a writing coach who works one-on-one with employees to help them improve their writing skills; identify, eliminate, or mitigate writing blocks; and increase their writing confidence.

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Organizational communication is a unique form of writing that differs from other types of business writing in several, significant areas. I have spent more than 25 years as an organizational communicator, writing, editing, training, and consulting with multinational organizations and government entities. 

Why you might want your employees to work with a writing coach

Coaching can help your employee improve their overall writing skills, or it can focus on a unique problem in a specific area, such as structural issues, clarity, writing within organizational style guides, or types of organizational communications, such as reports, policies, procedures, human resources materials, newsletters, and so on.

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How I work with employees as a writing coach

I meet with the employee's manager to discuss the issues that we need to work on. Often, I ask for samples of their writing to understand the nature of the challenge, and we set goals with them

The employee sends me documents they have written, which I review and provide feedback on. Then we meet to discuss the feedback, answer questions, and discuss the next steps. Reports are provided to the manager, as requested.

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We work together to close the gap between where they are now and where they need to go. The focus is on performance improvement.

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All meetings are via phone or Zoom.

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