It was only 4 months after Audrey Juhasz started learning from me when she’d totally changed the way she and her team were able to talk to each other. This is how leaders use data visualization to change the conversation and fulfill your missions faster.

Since implementing Audrey’s new data visualization strategies, her colleagues have been developing new insights and making different data-driven decision. Dang, that’s good. Let me show you some of her work.

New Chart Types Speak Directly

I am so in love with this makeover.

Audrey explained, “The frequency chart had all the departments together. Then all the departments wanted their own individual data, too.” You know what this means: you’re now spending your one wild and precious life generating a bunch of individual graphs on demand. Ugh.

Girl, we have all been there.

Audrey continued, “Putting it into the beeswarm completely changes the story, and is SO much easier than 5 individual frequency charts. Next year, I’m planning to revamp the entire ’employee wellness’ report using the beeswarm and hope it will condense it from 40 pages to about 10.”

Amen to that! Shorter, more condensed, more insightful data visualizations increase Audrey’s efficiency (and life happiness) and give the departmental folks exactly what they want.

Bump Charts that Generate Action

Bump charts, a visual that was new to Audrey, show change in rank. Audrey created a strong example here, that helped her team make more strategic decisions about where to put their efforts.

Also – she’s got a *great* title. Creating strong titles is both the easiest and hardest thing to do to lead with data. Audrey explains the hard part:

“In some ways, the hardest part of this process is that it’s forced me to step up and draw conclusions for other people. I mean, the whole point of the title is for me to tell the audience what *I* think is important. I’ve always tried to be really objective, so making that leap has been really difficult.”

When you work with me, I don’t let you skip this part. I help you take the hard step of coming up with insights about your data. Why? Because then you get to the easy part: The efficient conversations and streamlined organizational practices.

Audrey reported back:

“Last year, it was like [the head of the department] was completely paralyzed by what I had put together, and this year each slide was just a conversation about the story behind the numbers.”

When you learn how to tell a story with data, you notice immediate benefits to your own personal life. Less tedious chart-making, more thrilling high-quality graphing. It feels so good. But it’s much more than that.

You become the leader who effectively uses data as a tool to clarify communication within your team and up your chain.

And when your whole company is well-informed by the data and communicating clearly, you’re able to improve on all your metrics and fulfill the very mission you’re in business to achieve.