How to get leadership feedback in hours, not weeks
Want your leader to review your presentation FAST?
Ever waited days (or weeks) for feedback on your carefully crafted presentation?
This week I asked a question to a coaching group that I had never asked before.
It surprises me that I hadn't asked it before.
It just seems too obvious.
Here it is.
“Which would you prefer to review: a one-pager or a whole document?”
You know the answer.
It was unanimous.
So, why do we ask leaders and other stakeholders to review lengthy documents so they can comment on the messaging?
▶️ We think as we write the doc or prepare the deck
▶️ We don't know how to structure an effective one-pager
▶️ We don't know any other way to negotiate the messaging
My one-pager has transformed feedback cycles from weeks to hours.
It forces clarity, highlights key points and respects everyone's time.
While I have you, this one-pager is a central part of my BoardPaper Bootcamp, which starts next week.
Registrations close Monday. Learn more here.
Hope that helps,
Davina
Whenever you're ready, here are five other ways I can help you:
Elevate, the book – helps leaders set their teams up to set up a new dynamic across their team that will elevate everyone’s skills, helping the team get better, faster decisions.
Engage, the book – helps individual contributors prepare papers and presentations that leaders can approve without reworking.
Engage, the self-paced course – supports both individuals and leaders prepare more insightful papers and presentations for senior leaders and boards.
Extreme Clarity, the 2-hour workshop – introduces techniques for structuring your messaging.
Board Paper Bootcamp, the 2-week program – helps you clarify and convey complex ideas to senior leaders and boards.
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PRESENTED BY DAVINA STANLEY
I love what I do.
I help senior leaders and their teams prepare high-quality papers and presentations in a fraction of the time.
This involves ‘nailing' the message that will quickly engage decision makers in the required outcome.
I leverage 25+ years' experience including
- learning structured thinking techniques at McKinsey in Hong Kong in the mid 1990s before coaching and training their teams globally as a freelancer for a further 15 years
- being approved to teach the Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto in 2009
- helping CEOs, C-suite leaders and their reports deeply understand their stakeholder needs and communicate accordingly
- seeing leaders cut the number of times they review major papers by ~30% and teams cut the amount of time they take to prepare major papers by ~20%*
- watching senior meetings focus on substantive discussions and better decisions rather than trying to clarify the issue
My approach helps anyone who needs to engage senior leaders and Boards.
Recent clients include 7Eleven, KPMG, Mercer, Meta, Woolworths.
Learn more at www.clarityfirstprogram.com
(*) Numbers are based on 2023 client benchmarking results.
