Finding and Communicating the Story in the Data
Welcome to Virtual Academy On-Demand
This exclusive on-demand training offers you access to six-hours of content, split into three engaging sessions. Designed to enhance your skills at your own pace and convenience, you'll be able to download resources, see the trainer's contact information and earn a certificate upon course completion.
Overview
Data has become more extensive, more diverse, and more complex. However, the time and resources available to find the right story from the data have become shorter. Unless you are an intuitive genius, you need a method to find and communicate the right story in the data.
In this masterclass, Ray will share a framework and tools to confidently and reliably work with information sets to find and communicate valuable solutions.
What will you learn?
After completing this training, you should be able to:
Define the problem you are answering
Assess and organize the available evidence
Use the business lens to find the main story
Apply tools to make the patterns in the data more visible
Create the story from the findings
Communicate the story to create action
Who should attend?
If you work with data and need to find good stories in the data, this is the masterclass for you.
Level of learning?
This course focuses on the practice of finding the story in the data; if you’re getting assignments with the task of the storyteller, then this course is for you!
Programme at a glance
In this course, you’ll cover:
Defining the problem in terms of business needs
Reviewing the context and data
Using tools to make the patterns more visible
Identifying the story
A strategy for communicating the story using Think, Feel, Do
Speakers
Ray Poynter
ESOMAR Council Member, Managing Director, UK at The Future Place LtdRay has spent the last 45 years at the intersection of insights, research, and new thinking. Ray has held director-level positions with companies such as The Research Business, IntelliQuest, Millward Brown, and Vision Critical. Ray is committed to the research and insights industry, having been a member of ESOMAR for over 30 years and a fellow of the MRS.
In recent years Ray’s work has focused on training, writing, speaking and sharing. Ray has run training workshops for a variety of national and international organisations, including RANZ, TRS, JMRA, MRS and ESOMAR. Ray has written textbooks, taught at Saitama and Nottingham Universities, regularly blogs, and is active on social media.
In 2023 Ray was elected President of ESOMAR.