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Delivering Data-driven Insights

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Communicate your insights. Create effective deliverables.

24 Jun 2025
15 Oct 2025
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Delivery
In-Person
Location
Wellington
Duration
2 days
CPD/PLD Hours
12

Course overview

You will learn to package, visualise, and communicate information in a way that will make them as useful as possible to target audiences, such as business intelligence, dashboards, infographics, evidence-based policy recommendations, reports and presentations.

Participants will compare alternative methods of communicating data insights and create deliverables, such as charts and graphs, tables, and infographics.

Facilitated by

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Mary Ellen Gordon

FACILITATOR

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What you'll learn

  • Identify your target audience and demonstrate an understanding of their needs by selecting insights that are relevant to and actionable by them.
  • Compare alternative ways of communicating data insights and select the most appropriate for the target audience and insight.
  • Create deliverables, such as charts and graphs, tables, and infographics for communicating and visualising the data insights.
  • Evaluate your communication of data insights to identify potential sources of misunderstanding or miscommunication and identify ways to make them even more clear and actionable.

Business people looking at data documents

Course modules

Day One

  1. Know your audience, including their context and background.
  2. Clarifying your objectives to ensure you are communicating the information that is most relevant and interesting to your target audience.

Day Two

  1. Creating deliverables (charts, graphs, tables, infographics).
  2. Evaluating the impact of deliverables.

Further Information

This course uses an interactive workshop format and participants will have the opportunity to work on examples, including those related to their own work (if they so choose). All participants are required to bring their laptops to the sessions.

Here's what others are saying

“This course is super helpful to professionals working with data. The lecturer really broadens our mind about how data could be presented and interpreted to various audiences for diverse purposes effectively.”

Upcoming Courses & Delivery Options

3 spaces remaining

24 Jun 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 2 days

Sessions
Session 1 | 24 Jun 9:30am - 3:30pm
Session 2 | 25 Jun 9:30am - 3:30pm
Session 1 | 24 Jun 9:30am - 3:30pm
Session 2 | 25 Jun 9:30am - 3:30pm

$NZD 1,395

excl. GST

15 Oct 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 2 days

Sessions
Session 1 | 15 Oct 9:30am - 3:30pm
Session 2 | 16 Oct 9:30am - 3:30pm
Session 1 | 15 Oct 9:30am - 3:30pm
Session 2 | 16 Oct 9:30am - 3:30pm

$NZD 1,395

excl. GST

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