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Program Outline
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Communicate with Impact
Leading with the Answer
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Communicate with Impact
Crafting a Convincing Storyline
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Solve Problems Using Structure
Defining the Problem
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Solve Problems Using Structure
Introduction to Issue Trees
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Solve Problems Using Structure
Prioritizing Issues
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Solve Problems Using Structure
Maximizing Impact
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Create Insightful Slide Decks
Crafting Slides: Messages
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Create Insightful Slide Decks
Basics of Executive Summary
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Communicate with Impact
Leading with the Answer
Communicate efficiently by stating the main point up front, followed by structured arguments
Why this matter?
Competition for attention is fierce. Getting your message across clearly and succinctly is a make or break.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review what it means to communicate top-down
- Structure a fragmented message into a logical structure
- Rewrite an email to be answer first, evidence second
Communicate with Impact
Crafting a Convincing Storyline
Turn your message into a persuasive storyline
Why this matter?
When you're delivering a complex message or communicating to a resistant audience, you have to craft your message in a way that gets your audience to buy into what you say.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review situation-complication-resolution storylining
- Discuss when and why storylining is important
- Draft storylines for 2 different scenarios
Solve Problems Using Structure
Defining the Problem
Clarify what question to answer and what factors to consider at the start of problem solving
Why this matter?
No matter how great of a problem solver you are, your talents will go nowhere if you’re solving the wrong problem. Great problem solving begins by defining problems in a structured way — even when you don’t have all the info.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Fill out a Problem Definition Worksheet for a complex problem
- Practice how to surface misaligned assumptions by comparing worksheets
- Identify how to use Problem Definition Worksheets in real life
Solve Problems Using Structure
Introduction to Issue Trees
Break down complex problems into manageable parts using issue trees
Why this matter?
As you advance in your career, you must lead increasingly complex and ambiguous situations. Knowing how to structure open-ended problems is a must.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review what an issue tree is
- Strengthen intuition around what makes a good tree by evaluating multiple versions
- Create a new issue tree from scratch for a business problem
Solve Problems Using Structure
Prioritizing Issues
Narrow down the focus of problem solving in a structured way
Why this matter?
One of the hardest things to do when solving problems under a tight deadline is prioritizing what to work on. Identify key parts of the answer upfront to reach a good-enough solution fast.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Discuss why prioritization is tricky
- Practice a structured process to prioritize issues to solve
Solve Problems Using Structure
Maximizing Impact
Use the 80/20 principle to drive the most impact given limited time and resources
Why this matter?
The best problem solvers work smart: they relentlessly zero in on areas where they can have the biggest impact given limited time and resources.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review the 80/20 principle
- Identify leverage points in a business scenario
- Practice taking action to maximize impact
Create Insightful Slide Decks
Crafting Slides: Messages
Structure your messages in slides for efficient delivery of insights
Why this matter?
Slides are a commonly-used tool for communicating ideas. To get your point across, you want to efficiently bring out the "so what."
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review 4 tactics for bringing out the "so what" in your slides
- Identify ways to make messages more clear and concise
- Get some rapid-fire practice to improve messages on slides
Create Insightful Slide Decks
Basics of Executive Summary
Craft a clear executive summary that structures the overall slide deck
Why this matter?
Most leaders are too busy to read through a full slide presentation. Oftentimes, they read through only the first couple of pages to get the gist. Giving a clear upfront summary is key to ensure your work drives the impact you're going for.
Learning Objectives
- Use AI to enhance how you conceptualize, draft, and tailor your communications
What participants will do together
- Review the purpose of an executive summary in a slide deck
- Understand how to create an executive summary that is clear, concise, and compelling
- Practice revising an executive summary
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