Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

by trying to communicate to too many different people with disparate needs at once, you put yourself in a position where you can’t communicate to any one of them as effectively as you could if you narrowed your target audience.

driven by the belief that the audience knows better than the presenter and therefore should choose whether and how to act on the information presented. This assumption is false.

including the amount of control you will have over how the audience takes in the information and the level of detail that needs to be explicit.

Write out speaking notes with the important points you want to make with each slide. Practice what you want to say out loud to yourself: this ignites a different part of the brain to help you remember your talking points. It also forces you to articulate the transitions between slides that sometimes trip up presenters.

Good points on pre presentation prep