Board Paper Brilliance
Course outline
Drive business improvement
Badly written board papers are not only painful for senior leaders, but downright dangerous for the company (and the writer) if serious problems are misunderstood and not addressed.
This highly engaging masterclass lasers in on writing clear, concise, readable and actionable papers for your board or executive leadership team.
You’ll learn how to quickly, clearly and professionally get your messages across to even the busiest people.
Learning outcomes
- Present ideas in a way that helps business leaders think through critical issues and make sound decisions based on well-researched logic.
- Confidently and efficiently write papers that cut through the noise, accommodate a range of thinking styles and drive business improvement.
- Apply a selection of powerful communication tools to ensure your board papers are clear, concise and actionable.
Course outline
(Note: We tailor every course, so this can change depending on your group’s needs.)
CLARITY
STRUCTURE & ARGUMENT
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.