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Developing Your Analytical Skills: How to Research and Present Information

Quickly synthesise qualitative data, determine implications, and make informed decisions.

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The Key Issues

Things are busy and very often we want to make quick decisions. We use our gut feeling, or we listen to what people are saying around us. But in today’s business world, you should be using data to make real informed decisions. How can you use data to make better decisions? What is the process you should follow?

Analytical thinking

Making decisions using data

Creating short presentations

Key Competences​

Organizing, collecting and evaluating data

Making recommendations

The Right Programme for You

You are faced with a lot of data, and you need to learn essential analytical skills to make more informed and evidence-based decisions that benefit your team, department or organization.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Use a 2×2 grid and a Swot Analysis to evaluate ideas and analyse strategies.

Understand and use the 3 steps of the analytical process: plan, analyse and conclude.

Learn how to present your analysis in a convincing and clear way.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Research and organize data from multiple sources in the right formats
  • Evaluate the evidence to identify the best opportunity or most rational solution
  • Identify relevant information
  • Make difficult decisions involving qualitative data
  • Perform analysis from multiple perspectives
  • Recognize patterns and determine what they mean for your business
  • Evaluate the evidence to identify the best opportunity or most rational solution
  • Categorize data for analysis before starting
  • Communicate findings and recommendations clearly in a brief presentation
  • Presenting conclusions graphically Use 2×2 grids and SWOT analyses to evaluate ideas and analyse strategies

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Programme Details

Developing Your Analytical Skills is a 2 day face to face or 4 live online sessions hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. This programme focuses on the planning and analysis phases that you need to follow when making decision. It also covers presenting your analysis and telling your story.

Five Programme Modules

  • Identifying core analytical skills
  • Exploring the challenges of collecting, evaluating, and presenting information
  • Describing the steps in the analytical process: plan, analyse, conclude
  • Defining the purpose of the analysis
  • Improving your analytical skills by clarifying relevant issues: Why? Who? What are the options, benefits, and risks?
  • Identifying issues that are essential for comprehensive understanding
  • Deciding on an approach for an analysis project
  • Creating a data collection plan for obtaining information
  • Organising, collecting, and evaluating data via graphic tools
  • Performing affinity grouping to aggregate unstructured data into categories
  • Using a 2×2 grid and SWOT analysis to evaluate ideas and analyse strategies
  • Determining risks and performing cost-benefit analysis
  • Evaluating data and addressing information gaps
  • Understanding the characteristics of valid conclusions
  • Getting from conclusions to recommendations
  • Presenting conclusions graphically
  • Utilizing tools, tips, and techniques to present your story to multiple audiences
  •  Creating and delivering a brief presentation that inspires and persuades
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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