How to Ask your manager to invest in your development

Need help asking your manager to invest in your growth and development? Try sending the message below.

Technical Writer Request

Email Template

Hi [manager name]!

We can improve our process of training and onboarding new hires into our [system]. The way we currently do it is [describe why the current process is not working]. I think we can solve both problems by hiring a technical writer who can document all of our training materials and help us store them in one place.

I think having a training manual for our team will help us have one single source of truth and consistency on how people are trained on the team. It’s also going to speed up the onboarding process and will allow new hires to be more productive quicker.

From my research, I found Jesse Nguyen from Feed Learning to be a knowledgeable instructional designer and technical writer who is very detailed and effective. She will partner with me or one of our subject matter experts to learn our systems, and then she drafts all the materials for us. 

Here is more information about her technical writing and instructional design services.

Please let me know if you have any questions or need more information.

Regards,
[your name]

Here’s a sample of what that email could look like.

Technical Writing Request

Example Email

Hi Gina!

We can improve our process of training and onboarding new hires into our CRM.  The way we currently do it is unorganized and inconsistent.  I think we can solve both problems by hiring a technical writer who can document all of our training materials and help us store them in one place.

I think having a training manual for our team will help us have one single source of truth and consistency on how people are trained on the team. It’s also going to speed up the onboarding process and will allow new hires to be more productive quicker.

From my research, I found Jesse Nguyen from Feed Learning to be a knowledgeable instructional designer and technical writer who is very detailed and effective. She will partner with me or one of our subject matter experts to learn our systems, and then she drafts all the materials for us.

Here is more information about her technical writing and instructional design services.

Please let me know if you have any questions or need more information.

Regards,
Jessica