Colleen Trolove
Trainer Extraordinaire
Winning people over with plain language and love,
because the way we’ve always done it isn’t helping anyone.
Want better work writing?
Simply put, you can’t keep following blanket rules and out-of-date conventions. Readers don’t want jargon and long bureaucratic waffle!
But we’re conditioned to write that way by the left-over legacy documents we see all around us. We copy what we see because we think that’s the only way to be professional. It’s not.
If you want to be crisp, clear, and ridiculously easy to work with, here are your options.
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For Groups
If you have a group of people at work who want to sharpen up their writing, Colleen Trolove will bring the revolution (and the party) to you. In-house training is rarely this good or this impactful. For inspiration, enthusiasm, and real change, read on.
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For Individuals
If you’re looking to upskill yourself and learn online in the most accessible, high-energy way possible, Miraka Davies and Colleen Trolove’s school is for you. (Also available for corporate subscriptions.) Graze or binge, join the global movement to get unschooled.
In-house training
Colleen comes to you – for groups of up to 14 people – $8k per day.
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Report Writing - 2 days
You know, you really should know how to write a report. (Read that in a whiny, snarky voice for full effect.) Ahhhhmm, no, you shouldn’t. Because every report is different. There is no one right way. But I can give you the tools and the confidence to figure out how to write the right report, every time.
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Business Writing - 2 days
This course helps anyone who writes at work to do it better, faster, and more effectively. We cover emails, reports, and literally any kind of writing from content-writing to legally-binding documents. Increase your confidence, learn the latest best ways to write, and save some time and sanity!
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Technical Writing - 2 days
What even is technical writing? Well, if you’re communicating complex information, you’re doing it. And most of us do technical writing without any guidance or qualification. Take a couple of days to find out what you should be doing. What’s current industry best practice? A few powerful tools will make all the difference!
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Business Cases and Proposals - 2 days
Although it would be nice to do a Jerry Maguire and scream SHOW ME THE MONEY at the top of your lungs, that doesn’t seem to get the best results in a business setting. So here’s a training to teach you the art and skill of persuading (so people will show you the money).
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Policies and Procedures - 2 days
If you want to write policies to tick a box and sit on a shelf, find another course! Our focus here is to write policies that both work for your business AND get used by the people who need them. We’ll cover all the good foundational stuff of clear, modern business writing, then we’ll focus on the requirements of policy and procedural writing at a specialist level.
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Clear and Concise - 1 day
People sometimes ask me how to sound more professional in their writing. How to pad it out. How to use big words. But they’re crazy and you’re not. So you want to know the NUMBER ONE thing I get asked: How do I make my writing more clear and concise? Here’s how.
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Write Better Emails - 1 day
We spend SO MUCH time writing emails. What if I told you a simple email formula could get you faster replies? Less to-ing and fro-ing? Get people to do the things you ask and do them fast? Get you more YESes? This shit really is some kind of magic (well it’s actually neuroscience, but, you know…).
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Reviewing Writing - 1 day
Why is it so hard to get documents signed off? Why is it always a track-changes, version-control nightmare? You recognise good when you see it but aren’t sure how to help people get their half-assed writing up to standard - and still be their friend. If any of that sounds familiar, this training’s for you!
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My values as a trainer
Simplicity
We’re smart humans. We’re also ridiculously busy.
My job is to take intricate, complex communication theory and boil it down into power-packed, deceptively simple techniques.
You can instantly integrate those techniques into your working life.
Activity-based learning
We learn by doing.
A bit of theory, practised and experimented with, creates far more learning than watching someone else talk or demonstrate.
Joy and fun
If training is enjoyable, we relax.
If we’re relaxed, we feel comfortable experimenting with new ideas and techniques.
We give ourselves permission to learn.
Inclusion
Everyone is welcome. You’ll be made comfortable in my sessions.
A supportive, strengths-based approach is the only one I take.
Comments from people on a recent workshop
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Colleen was engaging, supportive and knew her stuff. We walked through helpful tips and exercises to demonstrate that we all can be better writers and better communicators.
Seamus McCroskery, KiwiNet
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Colleen changed the way I do my emails! They are now the perfect mix of personable and professional. Thanks Colleen :-)
Shannon Barclay, Marketing and Communications Specialist, KiwiNet
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Colleen delivers with gusto and grace. The writing workshop has really helped our team to get to the point, improve our relationships with our stakeholders and save time in the process.
James Hutchinson, CEO, KiwiNet
Writing should
feel easy -
for you to write
and for people to read.
If it’s not gloriously easy, get me in.
We’ll change that.
— Colleen