Hands-on tips for powerful presentations in this all-new companion to the bestselling Say It with Charts Through four editions, Gene Zelazny's classic how-to Say It with Charts has generated more than $1.5 million in revenues. Now, in the companion Say It with Charts Workbook , Zelazny shows you how to make even more of your visual communication skills, working "one-on-one" with you on how to masterfully use the latest techniques and tools to enliven every presentation. More than just a rote listing of techniques, Say It with Charts Workbook features performance-improving strategies and suggestions that will help keep both you--and, even more important, the audience--comfortable and at ease. Part refresher course, part workbook, part self-test, it arms you
manager sent me this ebook & it was actually a pretty fun, short weekend activity
the first ~15 pages are a general overview of the diff chart concepts that the author wrote a separate book abt, and the latter ~100 pages are exercises for you to go thru. the exercise format goes like this: you're shown bad chart --> you take pass at revising bad chart --> author explains what was wrong w/ the bad chart + how he'd improve --> author visualizes his revisions
tbh i think microsoft word's current functions are pretty intuitive in making chart suggestions + building smartart graphics from texts + etc., but i liked learning abt the thinking behind how to pick a specific chart, and the diff strategies for making the charts more visually appealing in general. the author has also been leading visual comms @ mckinsey for literally 60+ yrs, which is wild
was an overall fun exercise that takes a lighthearted and digestible approach to teach more abt chart design (lightheartedness partly evidenced by author's generous use of comic sans throughout lol)