Time Management - from the big picture to the detail.
No. of Days: 1 No. of participants: 4 - 14
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Using games and activities participants will learn how to measure, analyse, interpret and display information using simple examples. Learn how to avoid accidental bias and errors arising from assumptions, apparent cause, false comparison, misleading visuals, and trend extrapolation.
Subjects covered:
- The difference between data, information, and real knowledge
- Measuring ratios and trends rather than absolute values
- How should information be displayed or explained?
- Different graphs for different situations
- How can statistics be misleading?
- How to measure intangibles
- Practice simplifying information in order to get to the real issues
- Mind maps and decision trees
- Averages and percentages - don't add them
- Sampling
- Extrapolating from trends
- How computers can help
