1 Day Effective HR Writing Skills & Competencies Workshop

The HR department is perhaps one of the most important departments in any company, especially in the modern business world. It is responsible for everything from finding new talent to solving employee problems that arise in the workplace from time to time.

Why HR Writing Skills are Crucial for Organisation?

Effective HR writing skills is a must-have competency for HR practitioners, as an HR professional, you probably use writing every day – emails, job postings, internal communication, or policies. This is one of the HR Department’s key responsibilities, to serve as the main communication channel to the entire organization. Effective communication is also an important representation of professionalism. Nothing puts off people more than a bad-written message. Whether it is hard to read, badly worded, or features grammar mistakes – it always looks unprofessional. It is unacceptable to represent the company or yourself in such a way. Ineffective or misleading text reduces the productivity of all parties involved including endless clarifying emails.

How to Master Business Writing Skills?

Mastering writing skills is crucial for an excellent HR professional. It helps to perform better at work and achieve new career goals. Luckily, it is all about practice. Good writing can be learned with proper guidance and hands-on practice.

The Complete Human Resources Writing Guide Workshop

Join HR Consultant and Communication Expert, Mr Bernard Tay in this 1 Day Effective HR Writing Skills workshop and learn how to enhance your writing abilities through proper understanding of the techniques of effective writing. In this one-day intensive workshop, you will develop the competencies to

• Write effectively in various human resource correspondences including email, policies, memos and policies
• Apply effective writing techniques for HR Handbook and HR Policy and Procedures.
• Develop standard HR Writing Template and improve overall quality.
• Step by step guide to improve the art of HR Writing in different scenarios frequently encountered by HR departments.
• Understand the key considerations when writing HR-related communications including ethical and legal inference of communication
• Apply effective writing skills including setting the proper tone for different types of sensitive correspondence including warning letters, performance reviews etc.

To anchor your learning and put into practice the competencies learnt, the workshop incorporates hands-on writing on HR correspondences, small group discussions and presentations. Model correspondences on effective HR writing will be included to demonstrate to participants the appropriate style and proper tones various to use in different HR situations such as announcing retrenchment news, wage freeze in pandemic periods and warning letters for bad performance.

• HR professionals who want to acquire a good foundation in writing proficiently in different HR correspondences under various situations, ranging from informing candidates of their unsuccessful job interviews to announcing retrenchment and wage cuts/freeze.
• HR professionals who would like to improve writing skills for better communication to different audiences in the organization
• Anyone who is assigned with the responsibility for developing/updating a policy manual or employee handbook will also benefit from the structure of developing a proper format.
• Managers of small and medium enterprises will find this course useful in developing their competencies to communicate more effectively in their daily correspondences.

“Trainer is very knowledgeable and clear in his teaching. I have learnt to be concise in drafting the handbook. Thank you Bernard for sharing!” – James Poon, Banyan Home

“Trainer is well experienced and informative. Very engaging!” – Sahira Sulaiman Sait, Jamiyah Singapore

Senior HR Coach & Consultant: Mr Bernard Tay (Master in HR Development and Education, George Washington University, USA)

Bernard brings with him more than 20 years of full-spectrum human resource experience in both the private and public sectors. He has held senior human resource positions and his work experiences span across different sectors ranging from aviation, telecommunication, electronics, appliances, medical and education. Bernard was also a Senior Assessor of the coveted People Excellence and Singapore Quality Award. Bernard also has extensive HR consultancy experience across ASEAN including, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. Bernard holds has a first degree in Economics and an honours degree in Sociology from NUS and a Master degree in Human Resource Development and Education is obtained from George Washington University, USA.