From the course: Leading Teams Working with Data: Pitfalls and Best Practices

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Communicate the big picture

Communicate the big picture

From the course: Leading Teams Working with Data: Pitfalls and Best Practices

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Communicate the big picture

- Whenever you're working with data or other people are working with you on data, it can be very easy to lose sight of the big picture. This is why it's really important to make sure you communicate what is going on with your data project. What are the goals? What are you trying to get to? Why are you using the data you're using? All of those things are really important. Just having people push forward without knowing what the bigger purpose is can make it very difficult for people to connect with the work that they're doing, and this work can be sometimes quite complicated and you get really in the weeds. But making sure people always see that big picture is something that can help them push forward and it can help them identify where maybe something was overlooked in the data, but they wouldn't know to watch out for things if they don't know the real goal of the project. So make sure you communicate the big picture of…

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