Speak Plainly

About this event

Speak Plainly is for the senior people whose prose actually decides things. Chief executives, chairs, partners, senior civil servants, and the directors of communications who write for them. We will spend a day on the working sentences that make difficult ideas land cleanly, with case studies from regulatory letters, public statements, and the kind of short internal memo that has to be right the first time. The tutor has spent twenty-five years editing senior writing in newsrooms and at one cabinet department, and is firm but kind about the passive voice, the parenthetical hedge, and the second sentence that walks back the first. Drafts are confidential and never leave the room. The room is capped at thirty and we sit at one long table in the London Library reading room, which sets the tone better than any briefing note we could write.