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Three Kinds Of Frameworks You Can Use To Communicate More Clearly

StrategyU

The reason they are used so widely is that they are a hyper-effective way of sharing information, especially when you are trying to share that information with an audience (typically, the client) that does not have deep familiarity with the data. A better way of sharing loads of information is by using a framework.

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Use The Pyramid Principle To Communicate Like A CEO

StrategyU

Bottom-Up : Using the principles to go from lots of information to a synthesized core idea Top-down: Once you have a structured set of ideas using things like MECE, this is how you think about organizing the sequence and order of events. Above that are the “insights” – you synthesize your information into the “so what?”

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Mini-Course Lesson 2: Using MECE in Your Work

StrategyU

Part 2: Collectively Exhaustive In order to be collectively exhaustive your set of information needs to cover all possible options. This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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Getting to The “So What?” – The Most Important Question

StrategyU

” The job of a great consultant is not just to repackage information. It is to put that information into the client’s context and then give them actionable information about what they should do next. Almost every company I’ve done workshops for has the same problem: they don’t ask “So what?

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Exploring Consulting Frameworks: The Experience Curve

StrategyU

Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.

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How people lie with charts & data?: an example from Fortune 500 CEOs

StrategyU

In my several years in strategy consulting, I learned about the many ways data, information and charts could be used to fit with an existing storyline. This builds on the last charge and adds the “missing” information of the percentage of men who are Fortune 500 CEOs. What is the intent of this presentation of information?

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Problem-Solving Tools to Help Your Business Increase Productivity

Wrike

Important messages repeatedly get missed, information gets buried and lost, and you’re always sliding in just under the wire — or worse, after the deadline. With this information, you not only understand how tasks are connected but also which tasks have some wiggle room for delays (without extending the duration of the entire project). .