Executive Briefing Skills Training

A Powerful Message, Every Time

Executive briefing skills are a cornerstone to success in today’s business world. Whether you’re presenting information to your team, your supervisor, or to an audience of decision-makers, your ability to brief senior executives in a compelling way can set you apart as a leader. Mastering the art of delivering a compelling message—one that instills belief and trust—is crucial to your career and your organization’s mission.

Are You Presentation-Ready?

White House and Congressional staffers do it every day. Most have studied how to put the right information in layman’s terms and then compress it, no matter how complex the topic or limited the time they’re given. Salespeople become masters of “the elevator pitch,” hitting key points and making a persuasive argument every time they speak to a decision-maker.

The good news? Superior executive briefing skills and tactics are very learnable!

CommCore can teach you, through out Executive Briefing Skills Training and Presentation Skills Training Services. Investing in the development of these essential skills not only benefits your organization, but also furthers personal development, improves relationships, and enhances your career. Delivering executive briefings give you an excellent opportunity for you to acquire valuable expertise as a reliable source of data, information, knowledge, and insight. Learning to do them well is a win-win-win.

Unlike a speech or formal presentation, which is most often planned down to the final word, a successful briefing is most often delivered in an impromptu, improvised setting. 

What makes a good Executive Briefing?

There’s plenty of advice out there on how to effectively brief a senior leader: less is more, lead with the core message, and employ memorable language., a.k.a. the “KISS” principle. These are solid pointers, but they undervalue the interpersonal elements that are critical to a successful briefing. Your presentation can fail or succeed before it begins and your odds are worse if you skimp on the personal in favor of regurgitating information.

Here are some tried-and-true tips we’ve offered throughout the years:

  • Be concise
  • Tell a memorable story
  • Avoid the technical
  • Stick to business, but make it personal

We can help you do all of this and more, effectively and memorably.

What makes a good Congressional Briefing?

Briefings are informational sessions that help Congress keep track of what’s happening in the world and how the U.S. is responding to it. CommCore has helped our clients prepare for Congressional Briefings to staff or members, committee members, to the public, the administration, or outside organizations. We understand that Capitol Hill events can be diverse and include lunch sessions, parties, art shows, concerts, movie nights, discussions, training, and volunteer activities. We’ll help you tailor your briefing so it fits with the event you’re targeting.

Best practices include:

  • Nonpartisanship
  • How to interact with Members of Congress
  • Limited topics and direct language
  • etc.

Train in C-Suite Influencing

Effective briefing skills require the ability to handle face-to-face meetings and briefings with confidence even when working in an increasingly online world. No matter how well you prepare or how steely your nerves, circumstances beyond your control, from an unrelated crisis in your personal life to the decision-maker’s stress level that day, can impact your pitch.

CommCore helps participants craft key messages and create visuals that drive the point home. We rehearse all aspects of the delivery, with a focus on Q&A—where speakers can score the most points with their audience. We also address presentation anxiety, nerves, energy, and reading the room – maybe the most important skills of all.

At CommCore, we help you:

  • Improve your overall message
  • Enhance message delivery
  • Take stock of interpersonal dynamics ahead of time
  • Hone your ability to “think on your feet,” a.k.a. understand context and pivot as needed

You’ll be ready to communicate the right message under pressure, whether you’re briefing Congress, the president of the United States, a C-suite executive, or any leader.

Who is the Executive Briefing Skills Training program for?

  • Executive Management Committee
  • C-Suites and Division Leaders
  • Spokespeople
  • Marketing, Legal, IT, HR, Security, Finance
  • PR, Communications, Investor Relations, Public/Government Affairs
  • Operations

Our Executive Briefing Skills Training and Presentation Coaching Services will help you prepare for effective public speaking, Congressional briefing and testimony, pitching important ideas to your internal team, presentations to senior executives, keynote speeches, sales pitches, panel moderation, PowerPoint presentations, speech preparation, teleprompter training, testimony training, webinar delivery and more.

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