Most presenters have many misconceptions when it comes to presenting data, especially to their senior management. This presentation busts 3 common myths and provides 3 recommendations for presenting data clearly and effectively.

1. 3 Myths About Presenting Data to Senior Management Presentation-Process.com

2. May be, you are uncomfortable presenting charts and figures to senior management But…

3. If you want your projects to survive the proposal stage…

4. If you want to stay alive in the corporate jungle…

5. If you want to move up the career ladder…

6. You need to learn how to present your data the right way

7. Let’s look at the 3 myths that destroy most data presentations…

8. MYTH You need to gradually build your numbers story to final climax 1 So, most presenters love to flaunt their extensive groundwork before coming to the actual point

9. MYTH Graphs should reflect the thoroughness of your research Most presenters equate complexity of charts with believability of information 2

10. MYTH Numbers speak for themselves So, most presenters leave it to the audience to draw their own conclusions from their charts and tables Team performance this quarter 3

11. Here is the reality…

12. Your audience will NOT… Process your data Listen long enough Draw the conclusions you want

13. Your audience…

14. …doesn’t have long attention span Can you please email this? I’ve a meeting to attend When will you come to the point

15. … gets distracted by unexplained data What is the figure for the month of May? What does the red color represent …and January?

16. …prefers to tune off than to process

17. So, here are our 3 recommendations to…

19. Ideas

20. Proposals

21. Promotion

22. Budget

24. Budget

27. I need additional manpower

29. Your story will get you RESULTS

30. State the conclusionof your graphs in your slide titles Q 2 Sales in 2 regions grew 28.5% over Q1 sales Q 2 Sales Text explaining sales and details of whatever happened over this quarter and why sales is in all different directions INEFFECTIVE WAY A BETTER WAY More text explaining various other factors 2

31. Your audience will make the inference you want

32. 3 Use your slides to convey ideas. Details should go in a document handout IDEAS DETAILS

33. You’ll spend time PERSUADING not explaining

35. Write clear conclusions for graphs