How to Get Your Boss's Boss to Understand

Certain patterns emerged that reflect the FINESSE Fishbone Diagram®: Frame, Illustrate, Noise Reduction, Empathy, Structure, Synergy, and Ethics.

Sending your visuals early gives senior leadership more time to understand the material.

The things you do to make your presentation and reports more accessible to people with impairments make your work more understandable to all

Remember to use a guiding graphic on your next big project and with every big presentation!

Professional design tools like Canva are essential for effective communication.

Big decisions take months or years to make, involve an inner circle of advisors, require some math, and evolve through uncertainty.

Alt text for tables is a small step that can have a big impact.

Use shading, borders, and other formatting options to visually group related cells without merging.

Props make what you say memorable. They make you memorable, too.

Playing the "not readable" card should be the exception, not the rule. Sometimes you need to know how to bend a rule but not break it....

The I in FINESSE stands for Illustrate. Illustrate includes all the visuals, graphics, videos, and other media used in technical reports...

This 3-part series on improving data visualization was inspired first by Microsoft Excel and second by Edward Tufte. Tufte is the guru of...

Using the Data Validation feature in Excel improves visualizations by ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Using the...

Sparklines are a powerful visualization tool to convey trends and patterns quickly. Sparklines can be seamlessly integrated into text and...

The data-to-ink ratio is a helpful way to create powerful graphics. Simultaneously, your graphics also become more accessible. And if you...

Decision makers will give you about 10 minutes of attention. You do not have the time to explain complex visuals. Keep it concise with...

A table is a systematic arrangement of data. Graphs are simply a concise method for depicting large amounts of data. The central issue in...