Analytic Intelligence Briefing

How to present analysis with clarity and confidence.

Course Description:


This course is designed to introduce intelligence professionals to the theory behind delivering clear, concise, relevant, and well-delivered intelligence briefings, and to gain valuable experience and insight into their own briefing strengths and challenges.  In it, we will explore audience considerations and expectations, organizing and preparing the briefing material, and discuss techniques to deliver briefings with confidence and professionalism.   Participants will also deliver an intelligence briefing on their own topics in a controlled environment, multiple times, and receive both instructor and peer feedback and suggestions.


Please note: all participants in this course will deliver analytic briefings on topics of their choice that will be recorded for instruction, critique, and self-improvement.  All recordings will be deleted at the end of the course.


At the end of this course, participants will be able to:



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Who this course is for:

This course is ideal for intelligence analysts of all levels.

 

Course Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites, but we strongly recommend taking our Analytic Intelligence Production course before this course.  Participants should already have a good understanding the fundamentals of analytic intelligence production before participating in this course.

 

Duration:

In-Person Classroom Training: 5 Days, 7 hours of instruction per day*

Virtual/Remote Training: 5 days, 3.5 hours of instruction per day*

* We offer this class both as an in-person classroom event and as online, remote instruction.  While the material and instruction is consistent between the two, we are able to offer practical exercises and personal instructor support to the training in-person that we are not able to offer remotely.


What you will receive at course completion: