Pre-course survey: Conducting Spoken Briefings

Use the form below to let us know the needs and interests you have for the upcoming course on spoken briefings in which you are registered. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions. We use this information to tailor the course to your needs.

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Instructions

  1. Fill in the biographical data in the “Information about you.” Note that values are required in all the fields of this section.
  2. Answer the eight questions that follow by inserting text in the boxes provided. Text is required in all of the boxes; please enter NA in any box for which you do not wish to add a comment.
  3. Select the Send button to send the information to us or the Clear button to erase your entries and start again.

Thank you for taking a few minutes to provide us with this information. Your feedback will guarantee that the course addresses your specific writing interests.

Information About You

Name (req’d):
Company/Organization:
Email address (req’d):

Course title:

Course start date (if known):

City in which course is being held:

 

Spoken Briefings in Your Job

1. What is your job function?

2. What percentage of your total job time do you spend preparing spoken briefings?


3. What kind of spoken briefings are you responsible for? For what purpose do you create them?

4. What do you currently do to plan for creating briefings? Is it successful? List any problems that arise in your planning process.

5. Describe your process for creating briefings from start to finish.

Improvement Areas

6. What comments or complaints do your readers–such as managers and supervisors–make about your briefings? Include in detail any issues of slide design of your decks and the organization of your ideas.

7. Irrespective of what your audience or reviewers of your briefings say, what do YOU want to improve on by taking this course? Include things about your briefings that you find difficult, even if you do them well.

8. Do you use the computer as a writing tool for briefings? If so, for what parts of the writing process?

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