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Writing and Delivering Effective Briefings
This workshop is designed to help teams develop their skills and confidence in providing briefings, either in writing or orally. It will be delivered face-to-face, and will comprise a mix of guidance, discussion and practical exercises.
Key Training Features:
- Understand the different contexts for which they provide briefings;
- Understand the needs of their various audiences and be able to plan and produce concise, clear and useful briefings for them;
- Recognise the components of an effective briefing and how to structure it;
- Develop their own briefing skills and confidence;
- Develop an approach to delivering an oral briefing, and be able to choose what to include in a briefing – and what to leave out – to ensure focus and impact, and enable them to produce a briefing in a short period of time
Who Can Attend:
Anyone who is required to present briefings to senior officials or Ministers.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will become confidence in their skills and confidence in providing written and oral briefing. Participants will be confident in their ability to choose what to include and ensuring that their briefings are focus and impactful.
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Summary
Duration
10:00 - 16:00
Price
£625 + VAT
Location
Civil Service College, Westminster, London
Face to Face
VirtualIn-House Option
This course is available In-House and can be tailored to meet your individual training requirements.
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Zoë Collier
Zoë is a highly experienced, CIPD-qualified training consultant, delivering strategic advice, coaching and training in policy, strategy and communication skills.
Read BioZoë Collier
Zoë is a highly experienced, CIPD-qualified training consultant, delivering strategic advice, coaching and training in policy, strategy and communication skills. She started her career as a policy adviser to ministers in HM Treasury, where she ended up working as a Private Secretary to the Rt Hon John Major MP. Zoë moved to become a diplomat in the Foreign Office and then head of strategy at DCMS, before being appointed as a senior lecturer in policy and government at the National School of Government. It was here she discovered her passion for helping people to work more effectively and with impact and confidence.
She is a highly effective and motivational coach and trainer, and has applied her professional experience, together with her training and coaching skills, to deliver training programmes for a wide range of organisations, both in the UK and EU as well as extensively across the world.
Zoe has also worked in the private, local government and voluntary sectors, and is a published author of several short stories.
Specialisms:
- Policymaking and political thinking;
- Strategy and foresight;
- Stakeholder and citizen engagement;
- Negotiation and influencing skills;
- Advising, briefing and report-writing.
Education:
- MA (Hones, Cantab), BA (Hones) Philosophy & Law, Cambridge University
- Certificate in Training Practice, CIPD
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