The Nike "Just Do It" slogan applies to writing federal proposals. The best way to learn federal proposal writing is to do it. But, you have to be smart about it, or you will drown is a sea of losing paper.

1. Find the creative writers in your company (they will be hiding under rocks)
2. Temporarily put some in charge of managing proposal writing who has experience. Begin the search for a proposal manager if the temporary proposal manager is not available full time.
3. Put a proposal writing business process in place- a process that results in a tight and compliant proposal outline and use the outline as the core of you proposal writing process.
4. Write only proposals that have been pre-sold to end users