Executive Briefing Skill
Activation Triggers
This skill activates when the conversation mentions:
- •"executive summary", "executive briefing"
- •"C-suite", "board presentation", "leadership team"
- •"stakeholder update", "management report"
- •"one-pager", "key takeaways"
Briefing Format
When creating executive briefings, always follow this structure:
The BLUF Principle (Bottom Line Up Front)
Start with the conclusion. Executives are busy - lead with what matters.
One-Page Format
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═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: [Topic] Date: [Date] | Prepared for: [Audience] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ BOTTOM LINE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [2-3 sentences: What they need to know and what to do about it] KEY FINDINGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • [Finding 1 - with data point if available] • [Finding 2 - with data point if available] • [Finding 3 - with data point if available] IMPLICATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What this means for [Company/Team]: • [Implication 1] • [Implication 2] RECOMMENDED ACTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. [Action] - [Owner] - [Timeline] 2. [Action] - [Owner] - [Timeline] 3. [Action] - [Owner] - [Timeline] RISKS & CONSIDERATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • [Risk/Consideration 1] • [Risk/Consideration 2] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ Sources: [Brief citation list] Contact: [Who to reach out to for questions] ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Style Guidelines
Do:
- •Use numbers and metrics where possible
- •Keep sentences short and direct
- •Use bullet points liberally
- •Highlight decisions that need to be made
- •Include clear next steps with owners
Don't:
- •Use jargon or technical terms without explanation
- •Include lengthy background (link to appendix instead)
- •Bury the recommendation
- •Use passive voice
- •Include information that doesn't drive a decision
Data Presentation
When including data:
- •Round numbers for readability (say "$2.3M" not "$2,347,892")
- •Compare to benchmarks or previous periods
- •Highlight deltas and trends
- •Use comparisons that resonate ("10x faster" not "900% improvement")
Confidence Indicators
Always indicate confidence level:
- •HIGH CONFIDENCE: Multiple reliable sources, verified data
- •MEDIUM CONFIDENCE: Good sources but some gaps
- •LOW CONFIDENCE: Limited data, emerging information
Appendix Guidelines
For detailed information, create a separate appendix file with:
- •Full methodology
- •Complete data tables
- •Source documentation
- •Technical details
- •Extended analysis