Overview:

The Information that Influences training course is suitable for financial and other managers; anyone who prepares reports, notes or slides, or designs management accounts packs or KPI forms.

This one-day information course is aimed at improving all these communications, and covers the basics of making financial figures more interesting and eye-catching.

Benefits:

Benefits of the Information that Influences training course:

• Understand how to show your information clearly and with impact
• Understand how to make your work more inviting and more likely to be read
• Gain the ability to make reports and accounts information easier to understand, referring back to your conclusions
• Gain a greater influence over your colleagues and help them reach better informed decisions more quickly

Course details:

Course details of the Information that Influences training course:

• The business benefits of showing information clearly - and why most information isn't shown well
• How poor information costs lives
• Pie charts - when to use and when not to - 
• Line/column charts: Common but useless
• Column charts: Ways to make them look inviting and how to avoid difficulties with colour
• Tables: How people grasp data, and what this means for tables
• Plus learn how to do a CV with impact
• Numbers: When and why you should round your numbers (and why most people don't)
• Debt-ageing redo: Anatomy of a redo - changes that make a real-life debt-ageing schedule considerably better
• Bullet points: Don't review alternatives via a series of bullets points - do it better in a table

Usual duration: One day

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