Here’s a common dilemma: you need to write something but you’re nervous about making common mistakes or the exact spelling of the word you need eludes you. Perhaps you’ve never been really sure about which variant is the right one.

Or you need to put together a pitch, a marketing letter, a flyer or an email to an important client. You need to be really confident that your writing is going to make the right impression. And you’re not.

Maybe you’ve been given the job of updating your company’s website but are concerned that there’s a lack of consistency across pages which leaves the finished result looking less than professional.

What’s the answer? Well, as people who have spent our entire working lives writing for a living, we are privy to a secret that most communicators know and use daily – the office style guide.

This is a document that acts as a quick, straightforward, desk-drawer reference guide to anyone needing to write a business communication. It tackles awkward spellings, tricky punctuation, and grammatical bear-traps.

Most important of all, it keeps your written communications consistent.

It’s no exaggeration to say that every office should have one – and hardly any do. Well, here’s our solution.

We’re in the process of making our own office style guide freely available for anyone who will find it useful. It will be published in PDF format on this page for you to download, print and use.

Keep checking back – once yo have it, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.