Supercharge your writing with the power of AI without sacrificing government standards.
This 2 day workshop will demonstrate how federal employees can use AI to draft, rewrite, and polish documents in half the time while maintaining clarity, accuracy, and a consistent GC voice.
Through hands-on practice, you’ll learn to produce sharper emails, briefing notes, memos, and reports; streamline revisions; and build templates that make every writing task faster and easier.
Participants will leave with a complete, repeatable AI-supported workflow that boosts productivity and improves the quality of your written work across all government contexts.
Course Outline
Foundations & Core Drafting Skills
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how AI generates text and its strengths/limitations.
- Control AI output to maintain tone, clarity, and GC-appropriate style.
- Apply AI to draft short-form government communications.
Modules:
- How AI Writes & How to Control It
- Overview of AI writing patterns and common failure modes.
- Setting tone, register, formality, clarity, and GC-compliant voice.
- Core AI Drafting: Emails, Notes, Summaries
- Hands-on practice with briefing notes, short emails, stakeholder messages, and meeting summaries.
- Rewriting & Editing with AI
- Techniques for improving clarity, structure, and conciseness.
- Reducing ambiguity and eliminating filler.
- Government Style Standardization
- Teaching AI GC language: neutral tone, inclusivity, consistency, structured paragraphs, bilingual considerations.
Day 2 – Advanced Applications & Document Mastery
Learning Objectives:
- Use AI to produce longer, complex government documents efficiently.
- Implement AI-based quality control, fact-checking, and document transformation.
Modules:
- Building Longer Government Documents with AI
- Creating outlines, section-by-section drafts, logical structures.
- Drafting briefing notes, reports, decision documents, and memos.
- Quality Control & Fact Checking
- Training AI to self-audit for accuracy, misinterpretation, bias, and ghost facts.
- Practical exercises in document review.
- Document Transformation & Formatting
- Using AI to generate action lists, executive summaries, templates, SOPs.
- Adjusting reading levels, simplifying policy content.
- Final Practical Exercise
- Integrative hands-on project using AI across drafting, editing, and formatting tasks.