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Bespoke Training: Effective Briefings and Submissions

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Overview

Succinct briefings and submissions can improve the ability to influence key decision-makers and stakeholders. However, distilling complex information in a short, well-structured document requires efficient writing.

By hosting this In-House Effective Briefing and Submissions course for your teams you will learn a variety of new techniques to enable you to write informative and compelling briefings.

Book this course for your teams to gain techniques to develop more effective planning structures; learn how to write accurate, clear and understandable text; perfect how you express different options and ask for decisions, and gain techniques to distil large volumes of information into clear and succinct summaries.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of what it takes to inform, convince and persuade stakeholders and decision-makers.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply classroom examples to real-life documents

  • Understand how to read quickly and identify key facts

  • Learn where to put key facts on a page – ensure they are noticed

  • Acquire a range of techniques to create concise, complete and consistent documents for a busy workplace

  • Construct key sentences, informative paragraphs and useful documents to create the kind of impact that public sector organisations and professionals require



All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified,
with signed certificates available upon request for event.


Enquire About In-House Training

To speak to someone about a bespoke training programme, please contact us:

0800 542 9414
InHouse@moderngov.com



Agenda

09:15 - 09:45 Registration

09:45 - 10:00 Trainer's Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:50 Effective Planning

  • Develop more effective planning structures to construct coherent briefings

  • You will work through practical exercises with the trainer to help them develop effective planning structures

11:00 - 11:00 Morning Break

Combines tutor input with practical exercises to practise the dos and don’ts of effective summary writing.

  • Recognise the main steps to effectively summarising documents

  • Extract the ‘must know’ information in long documents quickly

  • Identify the logical order and reproduce it more concisely

11:00 - 12:00 Writing Accurate, Brief, Clear and Deliverable Text

  • Identify what tone best suits the type of information you are trying to convey

  • Establish a single tone of voice from multiple documents

  • Gain techniques to display facts in an engaging and informative way

  • Create a clear structure and message throughout your piece of writing

12:00 - 12:10 Break

  • Identify what tone best suits the information you are trying to convey

  • Establish a single tone of voice from multiple documents

12:10 - 13:10 Expressing Options and Asking for Decisions

  • Producing key messages from complex documents while maintaining the author’s voice

  • Learn where to put key facts on a page – ensure they are noticed

13:10 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:50 Elevator Pitches and Boardroom Briefing

  • Learn how to give effective briefs  ‘on the fly’

  • Briefing accurately and engagingly

  • Recognise common mistakes and how to overcome them

14:50 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 16:00 Producing Clear Summaries

  • Learn how to produce a clear and succinct summary

  • Utilise editing and selection techniques to include the most important and relevant information

  • Ensure the text is engaging and informative

  • Gain the tools to get the reader to hone in and understand the key pieces of information

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation & Close

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