Angela J. Maniak
The leading expert in helping auditors and accountants write clear and convincing audit reports.
How to Write Compelling Executive Summaries and Briefings
A Workshop Offered by Angela J. Maniak
What You Gain from the Workshop
This unique and results-oriented workshop enables your audit group to:
- Present to executives the information they most need to know.
- Write powerful one-page executive summaries.
- Design an inviting format for your summaries.
- Prepare and deliver informative oral presentations.
- Determine what executive management expects of your audit summaries.
- Deliver timely summaries to executive management.
- Use concrete and compelling language to get your points across.
- Make every word count and fit it on one page.
- Focus on the three things executives most want to know.
- Deliver professional oral presentations to executives.
Who Should Participate in the Workshop
- Anyone who writes audit reports or summaries.
- Audit professionals who deliver reports-oral or written-to the Audit Committee or Board of Directors.
What You Can Expect
This one- to two-day program offers plenty of self-assessment exercises, immediate hands-on application, discussion of innovative techniques, and practical action-planning. You should come prepared with recent report samples so that you can write and design effective executive summaries immediately. You will receive specific feedback and input from the instructor on the content, style, and format of your executive summaries.
In-house workshops may include practice and coaching on oral presentations.
Available Workshop Modules
Determining What Executives Want of Your Reports
- How to identify needed content
- How to determine the appropriate timing of your reports
Writing Reports to Executive Management
- Focus and frame the subject
- Keep language concrete and compelling
- Put things in perspective
Writing a Powerful One-Page Executive Summary
- Focus on three things: issues, impacts, and actions
- Stick to a few key points
- Make every word count
- Check for correctness
Choosing an Appropriate Format
- Determine how executives will use your information
- Let form follow substance
- Identify how long the report should be
- Choose an appealing layout
- Use the layout appropriately
Preparing an Effective Oral Presentation
- Choose your medium
- Keep slides secondary to your oral discussion
- Make slides legible
- Forget fancy graphics
- Use flip charts wisely (or don't use them at all)
Delivering an Effective Oral Presentation
- Know your audio-visual equipment
- Use handouts strategically
- Speak to be heard
- Project confidence
Get the book that goes along with this workshop
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For further information:
Angela J. Maniak
191 Prescott Hill Road
Northport, Maine 04849
207-338-0108
angela@amaniak.com
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