Steve Franconeri | Becise + Point Taken

Better Presentations:

Craft Your Storyline

Some organizations have famously banned slide presentations because they encourage sloppy thinking and a confusing storyline. Their meetings are instead driven by collaboratively written memos that encourage clear thinking and clear communication. But slide presentations can receive the same boost in clarity if the author takes the time to create and revise a full outline of their presentation's story.

This interactive workshop will demonstrate a research-backed approach for crafting clear and concise outlines that focus your story toward your audience's perspective. The workshop will then focus on hands-on practice with participant presentation files, followed by a discussion of how to customize the framework for the client context.

Better Disagreements:

Point Taken

Disagreements are healthy - they sharpen thinking and broaden perspectives. But they've been hijacked by anger and fear. Point Taken uses an engaging game to turn aversive arguments into an engaging joint exploration that is infused with mutual respect and smarter thinking. After feeling the power of the game, we'll extract its research-backed techniques into a portable toolkit for having better disagreements across politics, colleagues, or your kitchen table.

Better Presentations:

Craft Your Storyline

Some organizations have famously banned slide presentations because they encourage sloppy thinking and a confusing storyline. Their meetings are instead driven by collaboratively written memos that encourage clear thinking and clear communication. But slide presentations can receive the same boost in clarity if the author takes the time to create and revise a full outline of their presentation's story.

This interactive workshop will demonstrate a research-backed approach for crafting clear and concise outlines that focus your story toward your audience's perspective. The workshop will then focus on hands-on practice with participant presentation files, followed by a discussion of how to customize the framework for the client context.

Better Disagreements:

Point Taken

Disagreements are healthy - they sharpen thinking and broaden perspectives. But they've been hijacked by anger and fear. Point Taken uses an engaging game to turn aversive arguments into an engaging joint exploration that is infused with mutual respect and smarter thinking. After feeling the power of the game, we'll extract its research-backed techniques into a portable toolkit for having better disagreements across politics, colleagues, or your kitchen table.

Better Presentations:

Craft Your Storyline

Some organizations have famously banned slide presentations because they encourage sloppy thinking and a confusing storyline. Their meetings are instead driven by collaboratively written memos that encourage clear thinking and clear communication. But slide presentations can receive the same boost in clarity if the author takes the time to create and revise a full outline of their presentation's story.

This interactive workshop will demonstrate a research-backed approach for crafting clear and concise outlines that focus your story toward your audience's perspective. The workshop will then focus on hands-on practice with participant presentation files, followed by a discussion of how to customize the framework for the client context.

Better Disagreements:

Point Taken

Disagreements are healthy - they sharpen thinking and broaden perspectives. But they've been hijacked by anger and fear. Point Taken uses an engaging game to turn aversive arguments into an engaging joint exploration that is infused with mutual respect and smarter thinking. After feeling the power of the game, we'll extract its research-backed techniques into a portable toolkit for having better disagreements across politics, colleagues, or your kitchen table.

Better Presentations:

Intuitive and Powerful Slides

Effective teams need to present slides that convey complex ideas and data-driven solutions in engaging and clear ways, across both colleagues and customers. Unfortunately, those slides typically overwhelm, confuse, and waste valuable time.   

This interactive workshop will teach you to design slides that are understood in seconds instead of minutes, using cutting-edge research on cognitive science and data storytelling. We will teach you how to precisely distill your slide's argument, spatially arrange that argument on a slide for immediate understanding, and apply essential rules of graphic design to engage and generate trust.

We'll bring the guidelines to life by weaving in your slides along the way, and end with a participant redesign practice exercise to build muscle memory.

Better Dashboards:

for Decision-Makers

From analysts to the C-suite, you need to see your data, and have it be seen by others. While a technician can implement your dashboard, only the decision maker can decide how it should be designed. Learn how to design intuitive and powerful dashboards that democratize data across your organization. No technical expertise necessary.

Better Presentations:

Intuitive and Powerful Slides

Effective teams need to present slides that convey complex ideas and data-driven solutions in engaging and clear ways, across both colleagues and customers. Unfortunately, those slides typically overwhelm, confuse, and waste valuable time.   

This interactive workshop will teach you to design slides that are understood in seconds instead of minutes, using cutting-edge research on cognitive science and data storytelling. We will teach you how to precisely distill your slide's argument, spatially arrange that argument on a slide for immediate understanding, and apply essential rules of graphic design to engage and generate trust.

We'll bring the guidelines to life by weaving in your slides along the way, and end with a participant redesign practice exercise to build muscle memory.

Better Dashboards:

for Decision-Makers

From analysts to the C-suite, you need to see your data, and have it be seen by others. While a technician can implement your dashboard, only the decision maker can decide how it should be designed. Learn how to design intuitive and powerful dashboards that democratize data across your organization. No technical expertise necessary.

Better Presentations:

Intuitive and Powerful Slides

Effective teams need to present slides that convey complex ideas and data-driven solutions in engaging and clear ways, across both colleagues and customers. Unfortunately, those slides typically overwhelm, confuse, and waste valuable time.   

This interactive workshop will teach you to design slides that are understood in seconds instead of minutes, using cutting-edge research on cognitive science and data storytelling. We will teach you how to precisely distill your slide's argument, spatially arrange that argument on a slide for immediate understanding, and apply essential rules of graphic design to engage and generate trust.

We'll bring the guidelines to life by weaving in your slides along the way, and end with a participant redesign practice exercise to build muscle memory.

Better Dashboards:

for Decision-Makers

From analysts to the C-suite, you need to see your data, and have it be seen by others. While a technician can implement your dashboard, only the decision maker can decide how it should be designed. Learn how to design intuitive and powerful dashboards that democratize data across your organization. No technical expertise necessary.