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SOP Writing Workshops

Tackle Writing Challenges, Strengthen Team Writing Skills, and Accelerate Results

Understanding SOP Writing Workshops

Strong SOPs aren’t just paperwork: they’re the backbone of consistent quality, safety, and compliance. Our SOP writing workshops are designed to help teams turn dense, confusing procedures into clear, usable instructions that anyone can follow. By combining proven readability strategies with hands-on practice, we guide professionals to create SOPs that improve efficiency, reduce errors, and meet regulatory standards. The result is documentation that empowers your team to perform with confidence and accuracy, every time.

What Sets Our SOP Writing Workshops Apart

Unlike generic writing courses, our SOP writing workshops are completely customized to your team’s needs and industry. We use your real documents, review current practices, and design a course that tackles those exact challenges. Participants walk away with strategies they can apply immediately, plus rewritten examples that model best practices. Our workshops focus on readability, logic, and usability, ensuring your SOPs work in the real world—not just on paper.

Course Format That Fits Your Team

Every team learns differently, so we deliver our SOP writing workshops in flexible formats: onsite, virtual, or hybrid. On-site sessions allow for concentrated, distraction-free learning at your facility, while virtual workshops offer shorter sessions spread out over time for busy professionals. Both formats are interactive, with breakout groups, instructor feedback, and exercises based on your organization’s SOPs. No matter the format, your team leaves with the tools to write clear, compliant, and user-friendly SOPs.

Who Can Benefit from These Workshops

Any professional who writes, reviews, or relies on SOPs can benefit from our SOP writing workshops. Engineers, technicians, operations staff, HR teams, analysts, and customer-facing employees depend on SOPs to ensure tasks are completed consistently, on time, and safely. When SOPs are poorly written, errors multiply and compliance suffers. Our training gives every role the ability to produce and use SOPs that are streamlined, accurate, and actionable, reducing confusion and saving time across the organization.

Engineers

Engineers often create complex procedures that must be understood by a wide range of readers. SOP writing workshops teach them how to simplify technical details without losing accuracy.

Technicians

Technicians rely on SOPs daily to perform tasks correctly. Our workshops demonstrate how to craft step-by-step instructions that reduce mistakes and enhance efficiency.

HR & Operations Teams

For HR and operations, clear SOPs mean smoother onboarding, safer practices, and fewer compliance issues. Training ensures policies and processes are accessible and easy to follow.

Customer Service & Client-Facing Staff

SOPs help front-line staff resolve issues consistently. Workshops equip them to write and use SOPs that ensure customers get the same accurate, professional experience every time.

Marketing & Sales Professionals

Sales and marketing teams use SOPs to standardize messaging, manage campaigns, and ensure brand consistency. Our workshops teach them to create SOPs that are precise and adaptable.

Analysts

Analysts often document processes that impact critical decisions. Workshops help them write SOPs that present data-driven processes clearly, ensuring accuracy and compliance in reporting.

Workshop Highlights

Our SOP writing workshops are structured to deliver long-term improvement, not just short-term fixes. We focus on tailoring content to your documents, engaging participants in practical exercises, and developing strategies that stick. From start to finish, every element is designed to help your team write SOPs that are concise, compliant, and user-friendly. With added retention programs and resources, the training extends far beyond the workshop itself, ensuring your team continues to improve long after the workshop ends.

Tailored Content

Every workshop is based on your team’s actual SOPs, making the lessons relevant and immediately applicable.

Hands-On Practice

Participants rewrite real examples and practice applying strategies, building confidence in a supportive setting.

Sustainable Improvement

Our PROS Roadmap™ and follow-up options ensure your team continues to refine and improve their SOPs long after the workshop.

Add-Ons

We offer coaching, resource libraries, and retention programs to reinforce learning and maximize results.

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Our Professional Writing Courses

In addition to SOP writing workshops, Hurley Write offers a range of professional writing courses that address communication challenges across industries. Each workshop is based on readability studies, real-world applications, and customization. Whether your team struggles with technical reports, proposals, or scientific documents, our workshops provide the strategies they need to write with clarity, precision, and purpose. Below are some of our most popular options that complement our SOP-focused training.

Exceptional Technical Writing

Teaches teams to create clear, concise technical documents that readers can actually use.

Better Reviewing Techniques

Helps teams streamline review processes with clear, useful feedback that reduces frustration.

Writing User-Friendly SOPs

A dedicated workshop on SOPs, covering process mapping, readability, and usability.

The 4 Ps Of Presenting

Prepares professionals to deliver engaging, persuasive presentations.

Writing Winning Proposals

Guides participants in writing persuasive, client-focused proposals that win business.

Better Business Writing

Focuses on clarity and compliance in reports, instructions, and other manufacturing documents.

Writing For Financial Professionals

Equips financial professionals to explain complex topics clearly and persuasively.

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Choose Hurley Write Workshops when

Documents taking too long to get out the door

With Hurley Write, you can expect to see . . .

A streamlined writing and review process with less procrastination, fewer iterations, and more polished documents sooner.

Poorly written documents that create confusion

With Hurley Write, you can expect to see . . .

Concise, clear documents that target the intended reader to achieve the desired outcome.

Inconsistent Review

With Hurley Write, you can expect to see . . .

A logical review process that streamlines the review process.

Frustration among team members with writing processes

With Hurley Write, you can expect to see . . .

Clear, measurable standards so that writers understand, and can meet, expectations.

Industries we work with

Pharmaceutical & Biotech

Clients
Pfizer, Genentech, Biogen, Novartis, AstraZeneca

Key Objectives Achieved
A speedier approval process achieved by teaching their teams strategies to focus on clarity and concision.   

Energy, Oil & Gas

Clients
Holmes Western, Shell Polymers, Shell Oil

Key Objectives Achieved
Improved SOPs, work instructions, and increased compliance. Achieved by teaching participants strategies based on readability.

Finance & Accounting

Clients
PCAOB, ADP

Key Objectives Achieved
Increased compliance and fewer questions from stakeholders by teaching them strategies to convey complex ideas to non-technical readers.

Engineering

Clients
Raytheon, Dow Chemical, DuPont

Key Objectives Achieved
Less wordy, more focused documents, which resulted in fewer iterations and a shorter review process.

Manufacturing

Clients
Stryker, Calumet Refining, Cambrex Pharmaceuticals

Key Objectives Achieved
Technical reports focused on key objectives, resulting in greater adherence to policies/guidance, fewer questions, and a higher compliance rate.

Technology

 Clients
Intel, DNV GL Energy USA, RJRT

Key Objectives Achieved
Targeted presentations and reports that resulted in greater buy-in from management. 

Industries we work with

Pharmaceutical & Biotech

Clients
Pfizer, Genentech, Biogen, Novartis, AstraZeneca

Key Objectives Achieved
A speedier approval process achieved by teaching their teams strategies to focus on clarity and concision.   

Energy, Oil & Gas

Clients
Holmes Western, Shell Polymers, Shell Oil

Key Objectives Achieved
Improved SOPs, work instructions, and increased compliance. Achieved by teaching participants strategies based on readability.

Finance & Accounting

Clients
PCAOB, ADP

Key Objectives Achieved
Increased compliance and fewer questions from stakeholders by teaching them strategies to convey complex ideas to non-technical readers.

Engineering

Clients
Raytheon, Dow Chemical, DuPont

Key Objectives Achieved
Less wordy, more focused documents, which resulted in fewer iterations and a shorter review process.

Manufacturing

Clients
Stryker, Calumet Refining, Cambrex Pharmaceuticals

Key Objectives Achieved
Technical reports focused on key objectives, resulting in greater adherence to policies/guidance, fewer questions, and a higher compliance rate.

Technology

 Clients
Intel, DNV GL Energy USA, RJRT

Key Objectives Achieved
Targeted presentations and reports that resulted in greater buy-in from management. 

Your Workshop, Your Choice

Large teams typically choose to have the workshop delivered onsite or virtually.

Onsite

One of our coaches will deliver our course at your facility.

Virtually

Our courses are taught via a virtual platform.

No matter what you choose, every workshop includes:

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Completely Customized, White Glove Experience

Group Breakout Sessions Where Participants Practice And Apply Concepts

Instructor Feedback

Team Writing Exercises

Rewritten Examples

Long-Term Retention Options

And more! Hurley Write also offers self-paced online courses that are pre-recorded. These are great for individual team members. The self-paced course includes feedback on writing and, depending on your chosen package, personal coaching from one of our experts.

Don't take our word for it, see what our clients have to say.

For 35+ years, we’ve shown organizations how to improve their communication, whether that involved designing and teaching writing and/or reviewing workshops, improving their writing and/or reviewing tools, offering individualized coaching, or helping them put processes in place.

And we can help your team of professionals, too!

Next Steps: Improve Your Team’s Communication Today

Let’s discuss your team’s unique communication challenges.

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of professionals benefit most from a writing workshop?

Engineers, analysts, HR staff, technicians, and client-facing teams all benefit. Anyone who creates or relies on SOPs can improve with our SOP writing workshops.

Yes. We use your team’s SOPs and documents to ensure the training is relevant and practical.

Absolutely. Our SOP writing workshops are available virtually, with interactive breakout sessions and instructor feedback.

Workshops typically run from two to five days onsite or 10 hours virtually, but we can customize timing to fit your needs.

They’ll learn strategies to write concise, readable SOPs, improve clarity, and use formatting and structure to enhance usability.

Yes. Instructors provide personalized feedback on participants’ SOP rewrites and exercises.

Our SOP writing workshops are completely customized, hands-on, and based on readability research, ensuring real-world results.

Contact Hurley Write, Inc.

We’re here to help your team communicate better. Let us know how to reach you.

Prefer to chat? Call us at 877-249-7483

Prefer to chat? Call us at 877-249-7483