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Painting with Numbers: Complimentary Access
How well you communicate is critical to your effectiveness and your success as a professional, and make no mistake about it: presenting numerical information is communicating, just like writing and speaking.
This interactive and entertaining 5-hour seminar offers both a different perspective on and practical suggestions for presenting effectively all those numbers so critical to an FP&A professional’s job. Just as with writing and speaking, communicating numbers requires awareness and skill at three levels:
- Knowing the rules—yes, there is a grammar to presenting numbers!
- Having a sense of narrative flow—remember that you are telling a story.
- Showing respect to your audience and earning theirs— the credibility of the information you’re presenting and your personal credibility are deeply intertwined.
Learning Objectives
- Learn to present numbers to any audience in a way that is clear, concise, stylish and—most of all—effective
- Capitalize on the parallels between presenting numerical information effectively and writing or speaking articulately and eloquently
- Determine the appropriate use of tables, graphs, metrics and tools for developing and presenting information
Speaker Information
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Randall Bolton
Author, CEO
Lucidity
Randall Bolten is the author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You,” published in 2012 to glowing reviews. His 30-year career as a Silicon Valley financial executive, which provided the inspiration for “Painting with Numbers,” includes 20 years as CFO for both public companies and startups, and also senior finance positions at Oracle and Tandem Computers. In addition to providing CFO-related services, he currently teaches (U.C. Berkeley, Coburg University), speaks, leads workshops, and writes extensively on communicating numbers effectively; and operates Lucidity, his consulting practice. Bolten holds a BA from Princeton and an MBA from Stanford.
Sneak Peek
1. Introduction and Nuts & Bolts
2. Respect and Compassion for Your Audience
3. Powerpoint/Oral Presentations
4. Data Visualization
5. The One Report Every Organization Needs
2. Respect and Compassion for Your Audience
3. Powerpoint/Oral Presentations
4. Data Visualization
5. The One Report Every Organization Needs