Worked example
Consultant: Repair an Executive Summary
A C1 consultant includes all analysis but does not prioritize the decision the client must make.
This is a constructed teaching example, not a report of a real student or a claimed learning outcome.
Student context
A C1 management consultant gives five-minute project updates to a client steering committee. The immediate goal is to lead with the decision and support it selectively.
Evidence
- The learner's analysis is accurate and detailed.
- The update starts with background and reaches the recommendation after several minutes.
- This sequencing problem recurred in live practice and homework.
Decision
Repair
The repeated failure to foreground the decision blocks executive usefulness, even though the underlying English and analysis are strong.
Lesson objective
By the end of the lesson, the learner will deliver a 90-second executive summary that starts with the required decision, gives two supporting facts, and names one risk.
Activity sequence
- 1Reduce a long update to decision, evidence, risk, and next action.
- 2Compare background-first and decision-first openings.
- 3Deliver three 30-second openings from different consulting scenarios.
- 4Expand the strongest opening into a 90-second summary.
Evidence to collect next
- Whether the required decision appears in the first two sentences.
- Whether supporting facts are selected rather than listed.
- Whether the named risk changes or qualifies the recommendation.
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