Visualising Data to Influence Stakeholders
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Overview
Data is only powerful if it tells a story that sticks. This online seminar will give you a practical, repeatable framework for turning complex data into visual stories that influence senior leaders, stakeholders, colleagues and the public. You’ll learn easy-to-apply design techniques using the software you already have, so your insights get noticed, understood, and acted upon, whether in slide decks, reports, dashboards, or presentations.
Who is the seminar designed for?
This seminar is for civil servants and public sector staff who regularly present data but struggle to make it compelling. You know your data, but turning insights into visuals that engage and persuade can be tricky. You may face challenges such as limited time, tools, design expertise, or diverse audiences – this session is designed to help you overcome them.
What you will gain
By attending this seminar, you will:
- Turn complex data into stories that persuade and influence
- Choose the right charts, graphs, and visuals to make your insights clear
- Apply simple design techniques to make your presentations stand out
- Work faster and more effectively using free tools and practical frameworks
- Gain hands-on experience creating visuals that communicate key insights
Timing
Times on the Agenda are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Start time in Eastern Time: 08:00. Finish time 12:30
Start time in UK (British Summer Time): 13:00. Finish time 17:30
Agenda
12:00 Planning a data visualisation
• The key elements of a successful presentation of data.
• Industry best practice, and discussion of good (and bad) examples.
• Evaluating audience requirements and data literacy.
• Managing different user needs from the same data set.
• Balancing clear communication with transparency.
• A simple framework for identifying the Audience, Story and Action.
Break
Making the right chart choices
• How to balance function and aesthetic appeal.
• Framing the data and providing contextual information.
• Identifying the right graph, chart, infographic or other visual.
• Applying the principles of graphical perception.
• Common narratives that can be drawn from data sets.
• Hands-on visualisation of sample data sets.
Break
Applying professional design techniques
• Pre-attentive processing, and how the brain assimilates visual information.
• Using colours to add emphasis and meaning.
• The principle of ‘self-sufficiency’, and removing clutter.
• The importance of text in framing the narrative and annotating changes.
• Design considerations for different types of communications.
• Applying interactivity in data dashboards.
16:30 Close
Our L&D ethos
- We’re here to enable you to perform better!
Our L&D team
- All former practitioners, now professional trainers, our L&D team have provided open and bespoke solutions for more than 100,000 public servants from 120 countries
Our L&D seminars
- A vast reservoir of international, transferable knowledge and perspectives about effective, delivery-focused approaches to working smarter in the public sector
Price
The price of attending this online Training Seminar is:
GBP £260 per person
CAD $480 per person
EUR €310 per person
USD $360 per person
Please contact us for further details, or to arrange a conversation with a member of our training team to discuss in-house delivery options, including tailoring the day’s training to your specific needs.
You can email David Leakey on [email protected] or phone on +44 20 7661 7817.
Crown Commercial Service supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services.
