Strategy and evidence go together like a horse and carriage – you can harness their power by understanding the broad range of “evidence” and its critical role in decisions, negotiation and persuasion. And then put into action using striking and convincing messages with simple visual outputs.
Strategy and Evidence special
A dual offer covering an inspiring day on ‘What is Evidence?… and how to use it!’ followed by the practical fast-track training that I call ‘Numbers, words, pretty pictures and Excel’.
Two day training course – also available for either day individually
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Who is this training for?
This training is for anyone who would like to better understand and exploit evidence to transform the way they work in more effective and strategic way.
What is the aim of the training?
Day 1: To bring a radical and practical approach to using the broadest sweep of evidence (quantitative, qualitative, gut-feeling, big data, observation) to the strategic heart of your work.
Day 2: To equip you with the skills required to take information/data and, by understanding the power of evidence, transform it into insight, messages and visuals that will enhance your strategic decisions, negotiations, research and persuasive power.
What will you will learn?
- How to take everything we see, discover, investigate, know and feel into a structured framework and handle it as evidence
- Why evidence and strategy are so deeply linked and form such a powerful combination
- How to treat evidence and analysis with the proper respect and disrespect
- How to embed evidence into strategic situations
- How to select suitable data/information to operate on
- see the detail of Course Content for Day 1: click here
- How to take raw information and manipulate it quickly and simply to make it easy to analyse
- Simple analytical approaches that reveal insight and ‘hard to guess’ conclusions
- Presentation of data
- How to talk about evidence and how to use the results of analysis to back that up
- How to choose and create quick and compelling visual evidence
- See the detail of course content for Day 2: click here
You will leave the course ready to apply immediately a new perspective on what you do every day. You will be equipped to think about evidence in a practical, strategic and creative way and be able to do some practical, valuable, quick turnaround ‘dirty hands’ manipulation of information.
Practical details
The two-day course (also available as individual days) is held live online or in Central London, Sheffield or Edinburgh.
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Each day runs from a 0900h registration starting at 0930h prompt, breaking for lunch at 1245h and finishing at 1630h. There are breaks in morning and afternoon according to the programme and courses involve breakout or discussion sessions to aid concentration and optimise learning.
The cost is £625 (exc VAT) per delegate for the two-day programme (£365 per day for the individual days). Discounts may be available for non-profits, SMEs and multiple delegates.
This training is also available as in-house sessions. Costs are negotiable (but always give a discount on the individual delegate rates) and can include tailoring course material to specific requirements.
Two day training course – also available for either day individually
(Click to email me about possible dates)