Data-Ish • Edition 1

TLDR:

As a newsletter subscriber, we are offering our Data that Delivers workshop, a hands-on workshop that helps you communicate data to drive people to action.

Things that make you go hmmmm. 

Stick these to your monitor—or better yet, scribble them on the back of a napkin.

You might not need more data—just better questions.

Most teams collect because they can, not because they should. Data is most useful when it's built around decisions, not dashboards.

People engage more when they co-create.

One of our most popular tools involves building logic models with LEGO. Why? Because when people play, they think differently—and often more clearly.

Reports don’t fail—design does.

We often blame a report for being useless, but more often, it’s giving us exactly what we asked for (not what we needed). Bad reports are great teachers.

Words Worth Holding Onto

"Serious impact requires serious fun—because transformation happens when people are engaged, not just informed."

– Us (and we stand by it)

“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories—tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.”

 – Chip & Dan Heath (authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard and others)

Napkin Doodle Prompt

(Need help finding the right data—or the right question?)

Rad Resources

The Data Party Hosting Toolkit

One of our most beloved downloads—and for good reason. It walks you through how to select, present, and discuss data to get your team aligned, activated, and even excited about next steps.