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.
Next Steps: Improve Your Team’s Communication Today
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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Inconsistent Review
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A logical review process that streamlines the review process.
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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
Previous 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
Previous 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
Previous 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
Previous Clients
Raytheon, Dow Chemical, DuPont
Key Objectives Achieved
Less wordy, more focused documents, which resulted in fewer iterations and a shorter review process.
Manufacturing
Previous 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
Previous Clients
Intel, DNV GL Energy USA, RJRT
Key Objectives Achieved
Targeted presentations and reports that resulted in greater buy-in from management.
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
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:
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
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!
Mike Brett
conEd
David Anderson
DTCC
Judy Lettington
PaxVax
Simon Matthews
Raytheon
William Walters
IDA
Aylia Thomas
Orica US
Gregory Marshall
D & H Global Tax Group
Mike Brett
Raytheon
Andrew Charles
Bristol Myers Squibb
Jacueline Davis
IDA
Dan Littlefield
Genentech
Aylia Thomas
John Deere
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.
Can the workshop content be customized to our industry or team’s writing samples?
Yes. We use your team’s SOPs and documents to ensure the training is relevant and practical.
Do you offer virtual options for remote or hybrid teams?
Absolutely. Our SOP writing workshops are available virtually, with interactive breakout sessions and instructor feedback.
How long are the workshops, and can they be adjusted to fit our schedule?
Workshops typically run from two to five days onsite or 10 hours virtually, but we can customize timing to fit your needs.
What kind of communication skills will participants learn?
They’ll learn strategies to write concise, readable SOPs, improve clarity, and use formatting and structure to enhance usability.
Do participants receive feedback during the workshop?
Yes. Instructors provide personalized feedback on participants’ SOP rewrites and exercises.
What makes Hurley Write’s workshops different?
Our SOP writing workshops are completely customized, hands-on, and based on readability research, ensuring real-world results.