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[On] Point to Ponder: Our Blog

Need to Turn Data into a Story? Turn to Sports.

News Story AnalysisBy Cindy SkalickyOctober 31, 2019

Struggling with making data exciting in your slide deck? Data can be dynamic. Statistics can tell superb stories. Here’s The Formula:Start with facts. Add feelings. And you’ve got a data story. Let’s turn to the world of sports for a timely example. Let’s build a short story with data we have from the Washington Nationals…

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[On] Point to Ponder: 3 Reasons This is Excellent Scientific Writing

Message AnalysisBy Cindy SkalickyOctober 11, 2019

Scientific writing is hard to do well. There’s just no question about it. Clunky terminology, 6-letter acronyms with hyphens, latin terminology none of us learned, even if we took etymology in high school… the list goes on. But in a recent Wall Street Journal, I was hooked by an article about cancer. Instead of a…

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Case Study: From Bootstrap to $7.4M with the HOW-TO Model

UncategorizedBy Cindy SkalickyMay 21, 2019

This is a story about a founder who learned the Forbes.com featured HOW-TO model we developed from Day 1 of her pitch journey. It’s about and how the opportunities, wins, and checks began to accumulate when she gained mastery of it and implemented it again and again. Jen wrote her first company check to On…

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[On] Point to Ponder: Should You Model Queen?

UncategorizedBy Cindy SkalickyNovember 16, 2018

I was about 7 rows back in a packed theatre the 2nd day this movie was out. It was one of the only times in recent memory the audience clapped at the end. Which was deserved. Here are some key takeaways, one being the unlikely suggestion that  we all need to be more like Queen…

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The ‘Wait’ of the World Series. Lifted.

UncategorizedBy Cindy SkalickySeptember 21, 2018

*editor’s note: This is a shift from regular On Point posts – although we do teach storytelling in a professional context – this is part of my story, and a fun, light-hearted and personal example. Enjoy. ———————————- On the morning of November 2, 2016, I was talking to my 4 kids in the car on…

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