This six-hour course gives you the essentials for producing effective briefing notes, often referred to as memos, for either public or private sector organizations. With the techniques offered in this session, you will learn to be concise yet comprehensive in summarizing from more detailed source materials. You will also learn to use various models for structuring briefing notes and supplement the writing process with AI tools.

Who Should Attend

• Executive assistants
• Project officers and managers
• Those responsible for summarizing issues, actions and status for concise communication to superiors

Course Topics
In this six-hour workshop, you will learn to

• apply a process specifically designed for writing briefing notes
• use AI tools at key points in the process
• get to the point of the issue or action
• provide the appropriate level of detail, based on the reader’s need to know
• use summarizing short-cuts to save time and effort
• write effective and strategic recommendations
• stay focused on the reader’s priorities
• guarantee that information in the document is easy and fast to locate
• apply models for structuring briefing notes
• determine when to quote from sources verbatim and when to paraphrase