Practical SOP writing training for operations, quality assurance, and compliance professionals. Choose instructor-led group training or a self-paced practicum course with personalized instructor feedback.
Download the full course outline, including objectives, lessons, and delivery options.
Choose the format that works for your team: instructor-led virtual, instructor-led onsite, or a facilitated self-paced course. Always customized to your industry, audit requirements, and goals, and is highly interactive. Volume discounts apply.
Schedule time to speak with an instructor — not a salesperson — about your team's writing.
A practicum course in which you will plan, draft, and edit a real SOP from your work, with instructor guidance and written feedback.
Includes a live coaching session to review your final document.
Fee: $895.
Training a department or team? Every course is customized to your team's actual SOPs, industry standards, and compliance requirements.
This isn't a generic writing course. Every exercise focuses on the standard operating procedures you actually write at work.
Document workflows clearly, reduce reliance on institutional knowledge, and break the cycle of constant managerial rewrites.
Write logically organized, audit-ready procedures that close compliance gaps and reduce the documentation errors that drive findings.
Translate complex processes into clear, compliant standard operating procedures that any qualified reader can follow without ambiguity.
Produce consistent procedure documents for onboarding, policy, and compliance — and reduce the legal exposure that comes from vague SOPs.
Structure technical processes into step-by-step instructions formatted for fast, accurate execution on the floor.
Write SOPs that function as practical training tools: logically sequenced, appropriately detailed, and written at the right level for the intended audience.
Not the right fit: This course is built around standard operating procedures for workplace processes, not statements of purpose, proposals, or business correspondence. If those are your primary documents, we have separate courses for those.
All formats cover the same core curriculum.
Plan, draft, and edit a real SOP from your own work, with written instructor feedback and a live one-on-one coaching session to review the finished document.
You leave with a polished SOP and the process to write every procedure that follows.
Real-time, highly interactive virtual instruction customized to your team's actual SOPs, regulatory environment, and goals.
Large-group, small-group, and peer breakout exercises ensure active participation throughout. Each employee also receives individual written feedback on their writing.
Highly interactive SOP writing training delivered at your location, built around your team's actual procedures.
Skills transfer immediately. Participants apply what they learn to the next SOP they write, and each employee receives individual written feedback on their writing.
The same core skills and process in every delivery format — applied directly to the standard operating procedures you write at work.
This is the standard course outline. Group training is customized to your team's documents. Individual enrollments receive customized feedback based on the document you write in the course.
Every exercise uses real standard operating procedures from your field — not generic writing examples.
Business writing and content specialist with extensive experience editing and coaching technical professionals. Clients consistently give her feedback rave reviews. She has helped participants across operations, quality, and compliance teams improve their SOP writing skills.
Business writing coach for compliance, operations, and international teams. She brings extensive corporate communication and management experience and has helped professional engineers and firms develop standard operating procedures and policy documents across regulated industries. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Writing coach and instructor for technical and compliance teams at DuPont, Shell, the World Wildlife Fund, and the U.S. Army. She evaluates both the substance and language of SOPs and technical documents, bringing an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and a B.A. in Journalism to every engagement.
Business writing and marketing instructor, consultant, author, and public speaker with more than 20 years of experience. She has worked with individuals, small businesses, and corporations to develop all facets of business communication, with particular strength in helping professionals write clearly, precisely, and with confidence across technical and procedural documents.
Instructional Solutions has delivered SOP writing training and procedure writing courses to operations, quality, and compliance teams at the U.S. Army, Vertex, Avecia Biotechnology, Gartner, and organizations across manufacturing, pharmaceutical, government, energy, and financial services.
This team developed long, highly detailed, interrelated procedures. Because these SOPs must explain precisely how to perform each action—not simply identify the step and assume prior knowledge—the training needed to help writers organize complex information, sequence detailed instructions clearly, manage cross-references between related SOPs, eliminate unnecessary repetition, and make procedures easier to follow without sacrificing accuracy or completeness.
Participant Rating
"Provided practical techniques for writing clear, usable SOPs in a technical environment. Offered a well-structured, easy-to-follow format. Excellent pace and interaction. Included timely instructor feedback that strengthened each draft and reinforced understanding.”
U.S. Army DEVCOM
"Great pace, engaged and the activities were fun. Very good feedback on an exercise given to us."
Vertex Biotech
"Provided a valuable refresher in technical writing after many years away from formal training. Offered a user-friendly, easy-to-follow format. Allowed for flexible, self-paced learning. Included real-time feedback that supported ongoing improvement and understanding."
Mayo Clinic
Every instructor-led session, whether virtual or onsite, is built around your team's actual SOPs, industry standards, and regulatory environment. We can customize our existing curriculum, combine multiple courses, or develop a new course from scratch. We handle all scheduling and administration. Contact us to discuss your team's specific needs.
Instructor-led training is customized to your organization's needs. Virtual sessions typically span 7 hours and are delivered in one or more sessions depending on your team's schedule. Onsite training is typically a full day. Both can be expanded or compressed to fit your requirements.
Yes. We frequently combine our SOP writing course with other programs — such as technical writing, procedure writing, writing with AI, or grammar workshops — into a multi-module curriculum tailored to your team. Schedule a call to discuss options.
We work with teams across manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy, food production, healthcare, financial services, government, and technology. Every training engagement is customized to your industry's documentation standards and regulatory requirements.
Group training accommodates teams of any size. We cap each group at 18 participants to ensure high interactivity and can run multiple cohorts for larger organizations. Volume discounts apply. Contact us to discuss your group's size and structure.
The self-paced course takes approximately 7–8 hours to complete, depending on your pace. It includes 10 lessons, writing exercises with instructor feedback, and a live one-on-one coaching session. Your instructor is available to support you for two months, and you retain ongoing access to all course materials after enrolling.
The course concludes with a live one-hour, one-on-one session with your instructor to review the SOP you planned, drafted, and edited throughout the course. Your instructor provides structured feedback on organization, clarity, tone, and accuracy. You leave with a polished document and the skills to write all future SOPs well.
Yes, and that's the point. This is a practicum course: you plan, draft, and edit an actual SOP from your own work. Instructor feedback is based on your real document, not a generic exercise. If confidentiality prevents using an actual SOP, we can use a scenario.
Yes. Upon completing the course, you receive a personalized digital certificate of completion that you can share on LinkedIn, download to print, or reference in a résumé.
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