Maybe a totally different method. The point of a graph is to represent complicated data in a simple and visually friendly way.
Like in your first graph, having a graph within each bar is kind of confusing, unless you are going for a creative, interactive graph.
Also, why is part of your bar graph representing negative values?
Your second graph isn't as bad, it kind of reminds me of Cattell's personality spectrum:
You're going to need to give me more information. How many people did you interview? How many questions did you ask each person?
Was your Likert Scale like this?:
Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly Agree