Verbal Briefings for Strategic Outcomes
This workshop is designed for officers, analysts, specialists, and others at the ES/PM-3 to ES/PM-7 levels or equivalent who are responsible for providing briefings to managers and senior executives. Whether you have some or no experience with briefings, you will learn techniques to design and make presentations that are brief, but that still address the executive’s concerns and achieve the desired outcome.
This workshop provides tools and checklists that will help you to prepare for a succinct briefing that is to the point, on target and achieves your objective. You will learn about your audience, and about how their information needs are often quite different than what you may want to tell them. The structure of the briefings will be centered around addressing three questions: What? So what? and Now what?
- Why provide a briefing?
- Knowing your audience. Who are they, and what do they want?
- Giving information in a top-down hierarchy.
- Briefer's roles and responsibilities.
- Communication pitfalls.
- Bullet-proofing for the unexpected.
- How to sell the information.
- Making a presentation and deck basics.
Mornings are predominantly leader-lead training with videos; afternoons will feature group work and and individual presentations.
Mary Ann Lopoukhine
Mary Ann Lopoukhine is a seasoned training professional with over 25 years of experience in the design and delivery of workshops to improve English writing skills.
Mary Ann has trained thousands in both the public and private sectors. She is a recognized specialist on how to write effective briefing notes, tailoring her workshops to the particular requirements of each sponsoring government department. Her training sessions are designed to be highly practical, encourage lively participation and maintain a sense of fun.
