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Report writing prompts

Status reports, exec summaries, the brief nobody briefed you for.

• work Translate a Technical Problem Into Non-Technical Terms

  Explain a technical problem to a non-technical stakeholder in terms they can act on.

• work Critique a Presentation Deck Before Delivery

  Find out what will lose your audience before the presentation, not during it.

• work Generate a Proposal for an Internal Initiative

  Draft an internal proposal that makes the case clearly enough for busy stakeholders to say yes.

• work Translate the Corporate Jargon From a Document Into What It Means for Your Team

  Find out what a piece of corporate communication actually says and what it requires of you and your team.

• work Critique a Strategy Document Before It Reaches Senior Leadership

  Find the gaps in a strategy document before senior leadership finds them for you.

• work Critique Your Presentation or Pitch With One Day to Go

  Get a rapid, prioritised critique of a presentation or pitch you are doing tomorrow when there is still time to fix the most important thing.

• work Critique a Presentation Before You Deliver It

  Get a structural critique of your presentation before the audience tells you what does not work.

• work Generate a Briefing Document for a Stakeholder You Have Never Met

  Walk into a first stakeholder meeting with the right intelligence and the right questions.

• work Generate a Weekly Team Update Template People Will Actually Read

  Build a reusable team update template that is structured for reading, not for writing.

• work Build a Business Case for a New Tool or Process Change

  Write a business case that answers the question the decision-maker is actually asking.

• work Translate a Technical Report for a Non-Technical Audience

  Turn a technical report into a document an executive can read, understand, and act on.

• life Summarise the Key Arguments in a Document You Need to Respond To

  Cut through a dense document to find what you actually need to respond to.

• work Translate a Dense Strategy Document Into What It Means for Your Team

  Find out what a strategy document actually means for your team.

• work Summarise a Strategy Document Before the Meeting

  Get across a strategy document in two minutes before you have to discuss it.

• work Critique a Proposal Before It Goes to a Decision Maker

  Check a proposal from the decision maker's perspective before it leaves your hands.

• work Summarise a Technical Document for a Non-Technical Audience

  Turn a dense technical document into something a decision-maker can act on.

• work Write a Post-Mortem for a Failed Project

  Write a post-mortem that finds the systemic causes, not the person to blame.

• work Write a Weekly Status Update That People Actually Read

  Write a project update that takes two minutes to read and actually helps.

• work Summarise a Long Document Into a One-Page Briefing

  Turn the long document into a one-page briefing so the right person can make a decision from it.

• work Explain a Workplace Restructure to Your Team Without Spin

  Tell your team about the restructure in a way that actually helps them.

• work Summarise Meeting Notes Into Three Actionable Decisions

  Three lines out of two hours of meeting notes.

• learn Summarise a Long Article Into a One-Page Brief

  Turn a long piece of reading into something you can actually act on.

• work Explain a Technical Architecture Decision to Non-Technical Stakeholders

  Explain the technical decision to the people who will fund or block it.

• work Explain Why a Project Is Over Budget Without Sounding Defensive

  Explain the budget overrun without the defensive preamble or the passive constructions.

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