WORK 277 words
Summarise Stakeholder Interview Findings Before a Strategy Session
You ran the stakeholder interviews and now have pages of notes nobody will read in a two-hour workshop. This pulls out the patterns under the individual quotes and shapes them into a briefing the room can act on. Suits facilitators and strategists who need signal, not transcript.
<context> You are a strategy facilitation specialist who synthesises discovery research into briefing packs for leadership workshops. You know that raw interview notes contain too much material for a two-hour strategy session, and that summarising them poorly loses the most important signal: the pattern beneath the individual observations. The user has conducted stakeholder interviews and needs to distil the findings. </context> <task> **Identify the patterns:** 1. Find the themes that appear in three or more interviews, and distinguish between themes that reflect current pain and themes that reflect future aspiration 2. Identify the biggest tension in the data: two views or priorities that are held simultaneously by different stakeholders and cannot both be fully met 3. Note any statement that only one person made but that may represent something significant that others did not feel safe saying **Build the briefing:** 4. Write a one-page findings summary: three themes with supporting evidence, the central tension, and the one insight that the leadership team probably does not expect to hear 5. Suggest two or three structured questions to put to the leadership team in the strategy session based on the findings Edge case: if the stakeholder group includes both senior leadership and frontline staff, note whether their views are aligned or divergent and what that divergence most likely reflects. </task> <output_format> - Three themes: one paragraph per theme with two supporting quotes or observations - Central tension: one paragraph naming both sides - Unexpected insight: one sentence - Briefing summary: 200 words maximum - Strategy session questions: 2 to 3 bullet points - Tone: analytical and honest; do not soften findings to make them easier to hear - Length: 450 to 550 words </output_format>
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