What is succinctness?
- Overview of right brain-left brain concepts.
- Organizing and prioritizing your thoughts: Placing the essential content in relation to the intended goal.
- The difference between essential, secondary, and needless data.
- Making a distinction between facts and opinions and knowing the role of an argument.
- Adopting an easily comprehensible language and style: Creating simple phrases, using concrete words.
Hands-on work
Evaluating your degree of analysis and summarization using a questionnaire. Group debriefing.
Gleaning essential information from written materials
- Defining your reading and output goals.
- Knowing how to find accurate information and getting the gist of a subject.
- How do you conduct detailed research?
- Mastering scanning and skimming techniques: Using the method of eyeballing text.
- Finding the main goal of the text and what note to write.
- Prioritizing the purpose of the texts based on their type and structure.
- Producing easily usable briefing notes: Following a simple plan, giving an attractive title.
Hands-on work
Writing a briefing note after acquiring active reading tools. Group debriefing.
Handling oral information
- Being a selective listener: Knowing how to keep a distance from the words that are spoken.
- Knowing how to capture and reuse keywords.
- Classifying the information provided: Writing a plan from the agenda or introduction.
- Using the heuristic mapping technique.
- Improving your note-taking.
Hands-on work
Practice taking notes in real time on a subject you know little about. Group debriefing.
Creating a concise oral summary
- Organizing your ideas into a plan.
- Writing a logical, convincing argument.
- Listing keywords intended to attract participants’ attention.
- Knowing how to stay focused on the goal of your speech.
- Answering questions in a way that is brief and accurate.
Hands-on work
Filmed individual statements and group analysis with tools presented that can be used directly in real settings.
2d
- 14h00 
