Storytelling with You: What You Show and What You Say
Fix charts, sharpen slides, and present with confidence
Data only changes outcomes when people understand and care. This session shows how to design clean graphs, build focused slides, and speak with clarity so your message cuts through. Expect practical before-and-after examples, a simple story arc for decision meetings, and delivery habits that help you influence in rooms that matter.
Leaders are flooded with metrics yet short on attention. Poor charts and cluttered slides waste time, stall decisions, and erode trust. Clear storytelling – from visual design to spoken delivery – enables quicker comprehension, better debate, and faster action, especially when presenting people analytics to Finance, HR and business executives.
This session will explore:
- Great graphs in practice: reduce clutter, highlight the signal, and label for scanning.
- Slide craft: one message per page, purposeful order, and visual hierarchy that guides the eye.
- Narrative structure: context → insight → implication → action, tuned for decision meetings.
- Delivery skills: voice, pace and presence, with tactics to manage nerves and questions.
- Common pitfalls and quick fixes: misleading axes, colour misuse, dense tables, and text overload.
Learning outcomes:
- Apply a simple checklist to make charts clearer and harder to misinterpret.
- Structure decks that surface the decision, alternatives and recommended next step.
- Translate analysis into a crisp story your CFO, CHRO and operators can act on.
- Use practical delivery habits to engage the room and handle pushback.
- Adapt the same story for executive briefings, town halls and project updates.