From Interesting to Insightful

Employees working with data are most valuable when they can effectively communicate their data insights to stakeholders in an influential manner.

Data storytelling is about employees helping stakeholders to understand their insights and clearly articulate recommendations to be actioned. High-stakes presentations need to be impactful if they are to move the audience toward the desired outcome and are successful when they help stakeholders to understand the data, have an emotional connection to the desired outcome, and are clear in the next step to be taken.

Data storytelling is about creating visual, verbal and written clarity that directs attention to key findings so that audiences can easily understand the current state and why recommendations should be approved. A clear process that leans on industry best practices will deliver the tools and techniques that analysts need for effective data visualisation and a methodology for finding and creating the narrative in the data.

Our approach is content and brand agnostic; we focus on the process of presentation building and live workshopping in the room to apply transferable skills for individual outcomes.

We follow an information and implementation strategy; delivering industry-leading tools and techniques, followed by ongoing implementation support to embed learning as data communicators mature.

Soft skills can be notoriously difficult to measure. We have our participants complete a thorough assessment before and after our workshops, and if the embedding program is utilised, it is also completed each quarter to track progress. It is always exciting to see the progress of our attendees and provides management with the ability to report on the program.

THE TIME INVESTMENT

We get it – it’s difficult to take your team away from their work for Professional Development. However, one of the biggest benefits of communication training is the time that you regain afterwards. When people know how to communicate they;

• • hold shorter meetings
  • spend less time putting together emails, reports and presentations
  • write shorter (but more effective!) emails and reports
  • create and give shorter (but more effective!) presentations
  • are clearer in what they communicate therefore there is less confusion about/misinterpretation of information
  • stress and procrastinate less about impending presentations