FACTS Have Impact

Learn five key ways to ensure you make powerful, professional and impactful presentations and decisions. In this course, psychologist Eve Ash explains how to get your FACTS right. When you have a goal you want to achieve - such as building support, making a group decision, presenting a report, resolving a dispute - start by getting your FACTS right. We are faced with information overload, and often caught between emotional, polarized arguments and positions, so we must ensure our FACTS help us to achieve our goals.

Learn the FACTS strategy to ensure what you present is professional, accurate and appropriate;
Focus on the outcome you want and gather facts to help you achieve that goal;
Ascertain which facts are salient and credible for your argument;
Confirm the accuracy of your facts, and the evidence that supports them;
Test your facts on others before using them and make improvements if necessary;
Select the format for presenting your facts, and when, how and to whom you will present them;