Managing Editorial Teams with Carolyn Brown
2023-11-01 13:00 - 20:00 UTC | 499 Preston St, Ottawa, Ontario
Managing
Editorial Teams

If
you are an editor thinking of moving up into supervision or
management of other editors, or if you?re not an editor but you
supervise editors, this one-day seminar is for you. Through sharing
experiences, you will learn from the leader (an experienced
editorial manager) and each other.

Topics include:

Making
the transition to management (for editors)

Editors
are professionals (for non-editors): Motivation, autonomy,
professional development, professional standards and ethics

Helping
your team understand their role in the organization

Aligning
with senior management expectations, or, Why do documents need
to be edited and why does editing take so long?

Balancing
tensions and resolving conflicts between professional roles and
organizational expectations

Selling
your organization on the value editing adds and promoting
?upstream? quality control

Serving
your organization by adding value such as plain language and web content

Creating
a positive, consistent editing culture that meets industry
standards: style guides, editorial issues, professional
editorial standards

Instructor

Carolyn Brown

is a Certified Professional Editor and Editor in the Life Sciences.
She has edited a wide variety of material for 35 years, specializing
in scientific and medical publications for the past 25 years. She is
the author of the chapter on citation in
Editing
Canadian English

2nd edition and a perennial seminar leader.
