This seminar will discuss how to transform your regulatory documentation process into a profit center, an operational force multiplier in how you run your business and the functions comprising it.
Writing Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions is technical writing but technical writing with a twist. In order to create effective documents, you need to know a lot. You first must know about the regulations that govern the subjects you are writing about, you must know how people will use the documents that you create in the performance of their work, you need to know how to work with subject matter experts to gather the information you need to complete your document, you need to know about human performance and how people best learn and perform, and you need to understand how to best create operational documents in terms of layout and the use of visuals and language. Finally, you must know how to write technically.
Unfortunately, technical writing is not a skill that is given much emphasis in college curriculum if any. Technical writing is a skill life science workers are assumed to have and are expected to demonstrate at a level of skill usually beyond the capability of most. Unfortunately, most readers of technical writing are in the “same boat.” They “don’t know a good one when they see one.” At the end of the day, in most cases, you have mediocre writing at best that may or may not convey the message intended.
So what will this seminar do for you? The short answer to this question is that this seminar will provide you with the skills you need to effectively complete the most frequent writing assignment that you will ever receive in the life sciences….writing standard operating procedures and work instructions. The seminar will make you aware of how to write technically making maximum use of the words you use.
During this seminar we will practice the skills for effective writing and good documentation practice by completing many exercises and simulations to practice applying the skills learned.
At the completion of this seminar you will know how to gather information for, structure, illustrate, and write these most important life science documents. FDB3080