Analytic Intelligence Briefing

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