Here's how you can effectively engage employees during a presentation using data and statistics.

Knowing your audience and understanding your audience's preferences is very important especially when you are in a presentation mode. Tailoring your visualizations to meet the expectations and requirements of your audience will help in better engagement and fruitful conversations. Your audience should always feel that the presentation is meant for them and should have a clear presentations with key data points in the form of graphs and charts with which they can understand the high level summary of your presentation. Getting into the background of your audience, doing some preliminary research about them & understating their pain points will help engage the audience, aid decision-making, and leave a lasting impact from your presentation.

While presenting on data and statistics, it is so vital to present any complexity in data through the right visualization method that your audience can read and interpret. Presenting in some definite form that has graphs, charts and images to illustrate your points and enhance the visual appeal of your presentation is the best you can ask for as that will enable better understanding, analysis, and interpretation from your audience. The idea should always be to develop and reproduce some patterns or configurations that goes with your audience and their expectations, when they attend your presentations. At the end of the day, it has to be always a win-win situations.

When it comes to data presentation, storytelling becomes the key as it helps present the data with a contextual narrative. We must always think about the theory we are going to cover and must define the purpose of the story. Every story has to have a purpose that audience can relate and based on your story presentation, it should empower them to analyze the significance of the data and help them make informed decisions. In short to have a presentation with some strong story behind, your approach should always be to build an emotional connection that creates better comprehension, retention, and recall of the analysis derived from the data.

It doesn't matter how fancy or creative your presentation is. What rather matters is whether your audience is able to take what you have to offer. Visual appealing elements like color schemes, charts, graphs, images, pictogram, maps, etc., can be said to have a significant impact as it provides an accessible way to see and understand the trends, outliers, and patterns in data and have a lasting experience in the minds of your audience.