In the context of presenting business-related data to an audience of stakeholders, what are a few best practices?
- Include a title, subtitle, and date
- Use a logical sequence of slides
- Provide an agenda with a timeline
- Limit the amount of text on slides. Your audience should be able to scan each block of text on your slides within 5 seconds
- Start with the business task. Focus on the business task and frame the information in the context of the business task.
- Establish the initial hypothesis
- Show what business metrics you used
- Use visualizations
- Introduce the graphic by name
- Provide a title for each graph
- Go from the general to the specific
- Use speaker notes to help you remember talking points
- Include key takeaways