Board Paper Brilliance
Learn how to write clear, concise, readable, and actionable papers for your board or leadership team – in our one-day masterclass.
68% of directors rate their BOARD PAPERS as 'weak' or 'poor'.*
*Source: Board Intelligence & Chartered Governance Institute, 2024 – 68% of directors rate their board materials as weak or poor. Only 1% rate them as excellent.
In the same study, 57% of directors said finding the key message in a board paper was like ‘looking for a needle in a haystack.’
Badly written board papers are not only painful for senior leaders, but downright dangerous for your company (and the writer) if serious problems are misunderstood and not addressed.
Our highly engaging, one-day masterclass – Board Paper Brilliance – lasers in on writing clear, concise, readable and actionable papers for your board or leadership team.
You’ll learn how to quickly, clearly and professionally get your messages across to even the busiest people.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Present ideas in a way that helps business leaders think through critical issues and make sound decisions based on well-researched logic.
- Write papers that cut through the noise, accommodate a range of thinking styles and drive business improvement.
- Apply powerful communication tools to ensure your board papers are clear, concise and actionable.
- Prepare papers with greater confidence and significantly less time spent on drafts and rewrites.
- The AI advantage: AI can draft your board papers, but can’t ensure they'll drive the right decisions with clarity, influence, and impact. We’ll teach you both — the human skills and the AI smarts.
Clients who loved this course
Board Paper Brilliance has driven improvement at some of Australia's leading organisations across financial services, energy, government, and beyond:
‘I wish I knew this stuff when I started my career 20 years ago! A lot of people struggle with business and board writing. Thanks for generously sharing your knowledge.’
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Interested in our Board Paper Writing course?
COURSE OUTLINE
Note: We tailor every course, so this can change depending on your group’s needs.
Clarity
Help your reader think through issues clearly
- How complexity kills trust, and how to fix it.
- Apply our powerful RAZOR rules to shorten messages and boost impact.
- How to get your message across to busy skim-readers (summaries, key-point lists and more).
- Cut to the chase – lead with your ‘big news’.
- Use structure to turn complex issues into coherent messages.
STRUCTURE & ARGUMENT
Present your paper logically and persuasively
- Frameworks for informing vs. persuading. How to flex and focus your writing style to suit your communication goals.
- The anatomy of argument: How to build and structure a logical, credible argument to suit a range of thinking styles and personality types.
- Cut through the noise: How to distil a range of qualitative and quantitative data and present it in a way that assists decision making.
Interested in our 'board paper brilliance' course?
Tell us about your team and training needs below. We’ll get in touch so you can learn more about our course and how it will benefit your people.
BONUS: We’ll also send you our Board-Paper Writing Frame straight away – a board-paper template on steroids!