Working at the base affords me the opportunity to sit through at least one long briefing a week. These briefings are held and conducted by a varying complement of the base’s senior leadership. The theme is usually the current state of the base, both the positive and negatives of the situations and current hot topics. At some point these briefings always to turn to some upcoming change or new process about to be implemented. This is where the briefings always turn downhill. The speaker apparently knows about as much of topic as we the audience do. The moment they start stumbling through the item, shows they have no understanding of what they are trying to say. This broken briefing becomes so confusing for us listens to interpret, we are left
