Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams
Apply Quiet Time to Make BRIEF Practices Stick
You and your team have invested time and money in the BRIEF methodology to become clear and concise communicators knowing that the coursework would create sustainable breakthroughs. However, you also face the reality of fast-moving environments, with little or no time to prepare before communicating.
It takes time to be brief. Quiet preparation and planning will ensure your communication is consistently clear and concise. Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams will show you how to accomplish this.
Learn about the Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams program, presented by Charley Thornton of The BRIEF Lab.
Apply Quiet Time to Make BRIEF Practices Stick
You and your team have invested time and money in the BRIEF methodology to become clear and concise communicators knowing that the coursework would create sustainable breakthroughs. However, you also face the reality of fast-moving environments, with little or no time to prepare before communicating.
It takes time to be brief. Quiet preparation and planning will ensure your communication is consistently clear and concise. Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams will show you how to accomplish this.
Discover the Power of Quiet to Ensure Brevity
Time to think, organize, and reflect drives elite communication. The daily practice of spending more scheduled time alone in preparation creates the conditions for trimming excessive, scattered communication and transforming it into tight messages that make a clear point and create a consistent impact. The benefits of Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams include:
- Focused updates: Whether you are giving an update, or getting one, you want to know that the delivery includes organized, essential information.
- Shorter, agenda-driven meetings: Time spent together is most effective when a leader -- who has a clear purpose in mind -- provides an agenda.
- Intentional e-mails and instant messages: Taking a few minutes before writing creates an outsized impact. It starts with thinking, outlining, writing, and editing, then sending.
- Conversations where listening matters: Great discussions happen when people practice quiet, active listening, not when people are talking over each other, waiting their turn, or tuning out.
- Recommendations that make sense: Investing a few moments to prepare an easy-to-follow suggestion with a clear payoff improves the likelihood that people will follow that suggestion.
Discover the Power of Quiet to Ensure Brevity
Time to think, organize, and reflect drives elite communication. The daily practice of spending more scheduled time alone in preparation creates the conditions for trimming excessive, scattered communication and transforming it into tight messages that make a clear point and create a consistent impact. The benefits of Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams include:
- Focused updates: Whether you are giving an update, or getting one, you want to know that the delivery includes organized, essential information.
- Shorter, agenda-driven meetings: Time spent together is most effective when a leader -- who has a clear purpose in mind -- provides an agenda.
- Intentional e-mails and instant messages: Taking a few minutes before writing creates an outsized impact. It starts with thinking, outlining, writing, and editing, then sending.
- Conversations where listening matters: Great discussions happen when people practice quiet, active listening, not when people are talking over each other, waiting their turn, or tuning out.
- Recommendations that make sense: Investing a few moments to prepare an easy-to-follow suggestion with a clear payoff improves the likelihood that people will follow that suggestion.
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Apply Quiet Practices to Improve Workplace Communication
Like the coursework at The BRIEF Lab, the Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams program is simple, practical, and relevant. Over the span of 4-6 weeks, your teams will apply Quiet Works principles and practices directly toward the BRIEF methodology to improve the quality and lower the quantity of daily professional communications. The program has many direct applications:
- Stop communicating on the fly: During the day, stop taking the easy route and start scheduling quiet time to prepare before engaging others.
- Schedule quiet to prepare in advance: You’ll populate your calendar with new appointments like “quiet meeting prep” and “quiet project planning updates.”
- Embed quiet time into talkative meetings: You will begin meetings with a few minutes of quiet to get your heads straight and consider your objectives before everyone dives in.
- Think about your audience: Everyone has different interests, attention spans, and responsibilities. You will use your quiet time to consider this before connecting with others.
- Apply TOWER before all writing: Our BRIEF and Quiet Works approach to writing is very intentional and methodical: Think, Outline, Write, Edit, and Rewrite.
The Quiet Works for BRIEF Teams Approach
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Apply Quiet Works Principles and Practices to BRIEF: Dive into a proven methodology based on Joe McCormack’s books “NOISE: Living and leading when nobody can focus” (Wiley & Sons, 2019), and “Quiet Works: Making silence the secret ingredient of the workday” (Matt Holt | Ben Bella 2024) toward “BRIEF:
Make a bigger impact by saying less (Wiley & Sons, 2014).
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Practice and Apply Get firsthand experience through a series of daily real-world, realistic BRIEF challenges that address your personal and professional circumstances. Each week’s challenges build upon the others.
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Small Team Discussions: Gather at week’s end to discuss with your peers your successes and challenges. Gain guidance and recommendations from each other, along with a master coach/trainer who is Quiet Works and BRIEF certified.
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Recommend Organizational Shift: After successful completion, leaders make specific recommendations that they, their teams and organization need to follow as BRIEF and Quiet Works practitioners.
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A Weekly Exploration
Discover Powerful Ways to Integrate Quiet into Your Workday
- Morning reflection and preparation
- The power of 5 minutes of quiet
- Digital detox & tech timeouts
- Afternoon review & planning
- Leverage BRIEF Mapping & DRAFT Cards
- Creating quiet sanctuaries
Dive Deeper into BRIEF by Taking Quiet Time to Prepare
- Executive summaries
- Emails and instant messages
- Meeting agendas and notes
- Client proposals and correspondence
- Key conversations and drive-bys
- Project updates and check-ins