Write papers that lead to better, faster decisions
Is this familiar?
>> Writing papers and presentations feels like a chore that burdens your nights and weekends.
You are sitting down to review the fourth round of edits on your latest Senior Leadership Team (SLT) or Board paper.
The draft is a sea of red and you can’t work out what is wrong.
You referred to your predecessor’s examples and addressed every template issue, so this paper should deliver what's needed.
On top of this, you urgently need leadership support for the project to proceed.
But your stakeholders' continuous focus on minutiae is muddying the message you've worked toward.
What's going on?
Endless rounds of minor edits are blocking a project that will make a real difference to your KPI's.
You don't have time during your workday to give this the attention it needs so it becomes an afterhours problem.
Many executives tell me they think it's normal to draft multiple iterations and present to leadership multiple times before getting a decision.
It doesn't have to be.
I've helped many executives turn this around.
>> Wouldn't it be amazing if you consistently got better, faster decisions from papers written within regular working hours?
Board Paper Bootcamp teaches you how.
What you’ll learn
Learn to crystallize the messaging for papers and presentations with minimal rework.
My Elevate framework sets up a simple strategy for clarifying the desired outcome for your paper.
It works for business cases, recommendations, updates and all other forms of formal engagement with your top decision makers.
A major challenge in preparing papers and presentations is crystalising the message.
Our one-page message maps help structure your thinking to drive both clarity and insight.
Leverage story patterns, templates and guides to lift the value you deliver in each and every paper.
Spark off our extensive library of real-life examples too.
The main 'exercise' during the program is to prepare your own paper.
I will take you through the process step by step so you can progress it between sessions.
Learn directly from Davina
Davina Stanley
Founder | coaches at F100 & ASX10 companies + tech PMs | ex-McKinsey
Who this course is for
Leaders, PMs and experts who want to set up better conversations that lead to better, faster decisions from their leaders.
Finance leaders wanting strategies to make it faster and easier to review business cases drafted by divisional teams.
Company secretaries, chiefs of staff and communication experts wanting to help their teams deliver crisper and more valuable insights.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Davina Stanley in a real-time, interactive format.
1-1 feedback during the course
Get confidential feedback from Davina as you implement ideas from the course.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Resources vault, including ...
PowerPoint Planner to help you think through your messaging, Board paper handbook with 24 cases and PowerPoint Toolkit with 7 examples.
6 months of opportunities to keep asking questions
Program participants enjoy 6 months access of my Clarity Hub. This offers tools, templates, MasterClasses and the opportunity to grow alongside other members, with contributions from me also.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 25 lessons
Week 1
May
14
Board Paper Bootcamp Kick Off
Week 2
B1 PRE-WORK - 90 MINS - ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
Free resource
How to Minimise Rework for Your Next Presentation
The root cause of rework
The biggest problem has nothing to do with the quality of your slides.
How to quickly 'nail' your messaging
Clarifying your messaging inside your deck (or doc) feels fast, but it is actually slow and leads to excessive rework.
A proven way to reframe the way you work
I share 5 steps that will help you clarify and convey complex messaging.
Schedule
Live sessions
4 hrs / week
These two-hour workshops are highly interactive. They mix group work, individual work and breakouts as you each prepare your own paper step by step. Build on what you have learned in our short powerful online modules.
Thu, May 14
10:00 PM—10:30 PM (UTC)
Tue, May 26
10:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)
Thu, May 28
10:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)
Pre-Work Modules
1 hr / week
The workshops build on the knowledge from the preparatory modules, which will take ~3hrs in total to complete. These are assessable immediately after registration to complete at your own pace. The more you know and the more experimentation you undertake before hand, the more you will get out of the workshops.
Write a paper
2 hrs / week
Each workshop introduces a step in the paper preparation process. You will want to progress the paper further outside class.
Frequently asked questions
$1,490
USD