Preparing and Writing Briefing Notes
This course, offered as a one-day classroom session or six-hour eLearning session, 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.
We can either customize the course around existing templates and models your organization uses or supply you with a generic model for briefing notes, guaranteeing consistency across your group.
We encourage participants to bring samples of their own documents to the class for discussion and application of the course principles.
We frequently run this course in a six-hour format for public sessions. Check the current public schedules for interactive sessions using Zoom.
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 one-day workshop, you will learn to
- apply a process specifically designed for writing briefing notes
- 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
We frequently run this course as a public session. Check the current public schedule.