Return on Investment
Benefits
An investment in briefing notes training yields rich dividends by:
- saving time for all involved in writing, editing, approving and using briefing notes
- enhancing the results achieved through briefing notes
- developing thinking, planning and writing skills that apply equally to a wide variety of documents besides briefing notes
Fees
The cost of our two-day briefing notes workshop is a base fee of $2,300 plus $150 per participant (plus HST). Here is what the fees would be in total and per person:
Number of
Participants |
Total
Cost |
Cost Per Participant |
5 |
$3,050 |
$610 |
10 |
$3,800 |
$380 |
15 |
$4,540 |
$303 |
20 |
$5,300 |
$265 |
Travel expenses for workshops held outside the National Capital Region are charged separately. Meals and refreshments are not included.
These fees are highly competitive with those of other organizations that offer briefing notes training. Beyond that, other firms do not offer pre- and post-workshop exercises. We do.
The workshop fees cover:
- two days of workshop instruction, discussion and practice
- 245-page hard-copy workshop manual, plus exercises and answers to exercises
- mouse pad depicting the step-by-step model
- other materials such as a pen and note pad
- instructor's review, edits and comments on each participant's post-workshop exercise
Participants also have free online access to:
- a 390-page easy-to-read reference manual
- 274 templates (each in MS Word and WordPerfect) for briefing notes, briefing books, memos and letters
Results
We have consistently achieved a high degree of client satisfaction in delivering this workshop to hundreds of public servants.
At the end of each workshop, participants are asked to complete an evaluation in which they rate a wide range of factors on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest rating. To date, the cumulative average rating has been 9.0 out of 10.
In addition, subjective comments on the workshop have been very positive.
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