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

═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ 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