My Career-limiting Communication

Be thoughtful about how you present your content. Whether in email, documents, or slides, use punchy visuals to make content easier to digest with your most important points clearly highlighted. Make sure that data, charts, and photos are unambiguously labeled, with any caveats noted. In general, steer away from pie charts, averages, and percentages. That's because, as popular as these devices might be, they often manage to tell only part of the story and miss opportunities to highlight the relative size of datasets, outliers, or trends over time.