
IBCS with SUCCESS – Successful reports, presentations, and dashboards
As an expert in your field, you have processed important and accurate data. Yet it takes much more to present this data successfully to management or customers. Focus here must be on your message because recipients will only be able to understand you if you really say what must be said. And management reports require clear notation, as is the case with maps or sheets of music.
IBCS Certified Trainers
Program
08:30 Reception and distribution of materials
09:00 Introduction: The basics of business communication
- Management reports: Reports should have something interesting to report
- Presentations: The PowerPoint culture must be questioned
- The SUCCESS formula of the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS®)
11:00 SAY: Convey a message
- Focus on the message
- Detect, explain, or suggest
- Substantiate message
11:30 STRUCTURE: Organize content
- Use homogeneous, non-overlapping and exhaustive elements
- Build hierarchical structures
- Show logical structure
12:00 EXPRESS: Choose proper visualization
- Use correct chart type
- Add comparisons and variances
- Explain causes
13:30 EXPRESS: Choose proper visualization (contd.)
- Replace inappropriate chart types
14:00 SIMPLIFY: Avoid clutter
- Avoid noise
- Avoid redundancies
14:30 CONDENSE: Increase information density
- Utilize space
- Add data, elements, and objects
15:30 CHECK: Ensure visual integrity
- Avoid manipulated elements
- Use the same scales
16:00 UNIFY: Apply semantic notation
- Unify terminology
- Unify visualization
16:30 Summary
- Practical application
- Next steps
17:00 End of training
Breaks
There is lunch together at 12:30. Snacks and refreshments are served in coffee breaks at around 10:30 in the morning and 15:00 in the afternoon. After the training you are invited for an Apéro – a kind of small reception, at which snacks and refreshments are served.