Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
In this workshop, attendees will work through a clear process to develop the visual information delivery skills necessary to clearly communicate with industry professionals and stakeholders. The course will have a heavy practical bias, focused around organisational specific hands-on exercises, during which attendees analyse informational content and create compelling and powerful visuals, infographics, and dashboards.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
• Use an informational needs analysis process to allow you to project manage information delivery and design clear and comprehensible graphics.
• Identify and combine the components of infographics to create a fresh view of data.
• Employ a range of techniques to report key performance indicators in text and graphics.
• Visually present information using charts and dashboards.
• Deliver information at the right level, for the right audience by using the pyramid principle of information construction.
• Tailor information to the needs of your stakeholders.
Course Content
Hands-On Activities
• Analysing an existing business specific document to determine the informational needs of the audience and which techniques are most suitable for representing each topic element in the document.
• Identifying the graphical technique most appropriate for each topic element.
• Conveying important information quickly by creating and repurposing pictograms.
• Telling the story behind the data by using graphs, charts, and dashboards.
• Showing how information changes over time by constructing timelines.
• Representing different kinds of data in a single graphic by building infographics.
On-Going Post Course Instructor Support for all Attendees
As part of the learning solution provided by KPL, the consultant instructor will be available post course for remote follow-up questions or clarification once the group has returned to workplace. This service is free of charge and is on-going until the attendees feel completely confident that they can effectively deploy the skills learned during the training in their workplace.