Dear Colleagues,
I’d like to ask for your help with a small but focused project at ASA.
We’re putting together a set of best practices (along with examples) on how to effectively communicate statistical insights to senior executives and other decision makers. Emphasis is on practicality and we’re gathering inputs from both sides of the table. Final materials will be available later this summer.
All of us appreciate the importance of nuance when presenting statistical findings. Yet that room for nuance tends to shrink the higher up the ladder and more functionally diverse your audience is. Stakes are high, agendas complex, and time is scarce. In such situations, how do you “get to the point” or “tell a story” without compromising integrity or risking unintended takeaways? What can you get across in ten minutes or less?
Your views matter to us and we’d very much appreciate hearing from you in two ways:
- Fill out a short survey (see link below, takes ~10 min.)
- Let us know if you can share relevant examples (see survey question 7)
Survey link:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASA_SummerSurvey
Ingmar Leliveld, a management consultant who has worked on behalf of CEOs and other decision makers for over 20 years (and worked with professional associations before), is assisting us with this exercise and will gather examples.
There are more details in the attachment, should this be something of interest to you.
Thank you for your consideration.
Best regards,
Ron
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Ron Wasserstein
Executive Director
The American Statistical Association
Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics
732 N. Washington St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-684-1221 x1860
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