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:
Frame their briefing topic to their audience
Organize their topic and information into a clear, concise outline
Compose a logically structured slide deck, outline, and/or script to support an intelligence briefing
Identify the components that help ensure a delivered intelligence briefing is clear, well-spoken, and has minimal verbal fillers
Identify their own briefing strengths and challenges
Have greater confidence in their professional briefing skills
Course Outline:
Day 1:
Briefing #1
Thinking about the audience
Conceptualizing the briefing
Organizing the briefing
Day 2:
Slides and materials
Techniques for effective delivery
Review of Briefing #1
Revise briefing
Day 3:
Briefing #2
Review Briefing #2
Day 4:
Review Briefing #2
Revise briefing
Day 5:
Briefing #3
Review Briefing #3
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:
A certificate of completion
A set of slide handouts in pdf form
A set of worksheets, checklists, and job aids
Six months post-course support to help implement training on-the-job