Few people, it seems, enjoy Board papers. They are a necessary part of corporate life, but are often dreaded by those who have to write and maintain them. Despite best efforts, leaders and Board members frequently complain about the mediocrity of papers, making the task even harder for the writers.
Those writing them dislike:
* Playing red-pen ping pong iterating on drafts without clarity on what’s required
* Spending nights and weekends wading through stakeholder comments
* Presenting multiple times to get one decision
But there is a better way. In Engage, Davina Stanley helps you lift the quality of thinking in your papers and deliver them in a fraction of the time. Davina has worked with hundreds of corporate clients and has collected data over several years to solve the problem of mediocre Board papers.
Engage explains how to:
* Get a clear brief.
* Structure your high-level messaging into a single page.
* Iterate quickly around the substance rather than meddling in the minutiae, stuck in ‘track changes’.
Join thousands of executives who now successfully engage their decision makers in big decisions.
Davina Stanley has helped leaders clarify and convey complex messages for 25+ years. She began this work as a communication specialist at McKinsey. After working for the Firm and as a freelancer for 18 years, she focused on helping corporate clients. Approved to teach the Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto in 2009, Davina enjoys a challenge. She taught lawyers to get their advice across in 30 seconds before focusing on corporate teams. Davina wrote Elevate to help executives better engage senior leaders and Boards. Learn more at www.boardpaperbootcamp.online.
* Most books on Board papers help those who write them 'write better' or understand the governance issues associated with Boards. This book takes a different angle - it helps people write better papers in a fraction of the time by thinking better.
* This book offers leaders a strategy to take charge of the paper-writing process, rather than being bogged down in it.
* The author has based the book on the work she does with corporate clients and data she has collected over the past couple of years that demonstrates who this book can make a material difference to the quality of insights and the time people spend drafting papers.
Publicity:
* Davina sold about 12,000 copies of her first book The So What Strategy.
* Direct engagement with my 10,000 people email list and corporate clients. I teach about 500 people per year.
* Discussions on my Cutting Through podcast.
* Other podcasts that I actively chase down to be interviewed on.
* Google and social media ads.
