Training · Beginner
Data Literacy for Managers
A half day for managers who are handed reports and asked to make decisions. How to read a chart honestly, ask the right question of an analyst, and spot a number that cannot be right.
- LevelBeginner
- DurationHalf day
- FormatOnline or in person
- PricePrice on request
About this course
Reports only change decisions if the people reading them trust and understand them. This session is for the readers, not the builders: no software, no formulas, and plenty of real examples of numbers that looked fine and were not.
It is often run alongside a Power BI project, so that when the new reports arrive the managers receiving them are ready.
In-house option
For a leadership team we use your own reports as the examples, which makes for a lively session and usually a few immediate changes.
Outline
- 1The questions behind every chart. What is being measured, compared with what, over what period
- 2Averages, percentages and totals, and the ways each one misleads
- 3Reading a Power BI report. Filters, drill-downs and what the numbers actually include
- 4Asking for data. How to brief an analyst so the first answer is the useful one
- 5Six real reports, warts and all, reviewed as a group
- 6Agreeing what good looks like for reporting in your own team
Who it is for
- Managers and team leads who use reports but do not build them
- Boards and senior leadership teams
- New managers in finance, operations and sales
Before you come
- None
What you leave with
- A short checklist for reading any report before acting on it
- Shared vocabulary between managers and the people who build their reports
- A list of the changes your team wants to the reports it receives
Dates
No open dates are scheduled at the moment. Register interest and we will tell you first when the next one is announced, or we can run it privately for your team.
Ask us about Data Literacy for Managers
Questions about dates, content or running it privately? Send a note and a consultant will reply within one working day.
Prefer to talk it through? Request a free 30-minute call.
- 0330 111 2904
- info@meeshconsulting.co.uk
- Meesh Consulting Ltd
Unit CO2, The Manor, Tur Langton, Leicestershire, LE18 0PJ