Power BI Training

Power BI training that actually sticks.

A practical Microsoft Power BI course for teams across the UK, run on your own data sources so people leave with working reports and dashboards rather than a folder of slides.

What our Power BI training covers

A Microsoft Power BI course shaped around your team.

Most teams we work with do not need another generic Microsoft Power BI course run from a stock dataset. They need Power BI training that uses the systems they already log into every day, answers the questions the business is actually asking, and gives people the confidence to keep building once the sessions finish. That is what we set out to do.

We have trained finance teams who lived in Microsoft Excel for years, an in house business analyst who needed to move from static spreadsheets into interactive reports and dashboards, operations managers who wanted clearer business insights on a Monday morning, and senior teams who simply wanted to understand what their analysts were building. The same Power BI training approach works across all of them, because we adjust the pace and the examples to whoever is in the room.

Sessions usually run as two or three short half day blocks rather than a long classroom course. That gives people time to try things on their own work between sessions, come back with real questions, and avoid the usual problem with training where everything has been forgotten by the following week.

Microsoft Power BI foundations

An introduction to Microsoft Power BI for people new to it. The workspace, datasets, reports and dashboards, sharing, and how the pieces fit together. Plain English, no jargon.

Connecting your data sources

Bringing data into Power BI from the systems you already use, including finance packages, CRMs, SQL databases and Microsoft Excel files. Cleaning, shaping and combining it so the model is solid before you start building anything.

Building reports and dashboards

Practical sessions on building reports and dashboards that answer real questions. Visuals that suit the data, layouts that read clearly, and filters that behave the way users expect.

Business analytics and insights

Moving from reporting to genuine business analytics. Designing measures that match how the business actually thinks, and surfacing business insights leadership can act on.

How it works

Power BI training built around your team.

Every team is different, so every Power BI course we run starts with a short conversation. Who needs the training, what they want to be able to do afterwards, which data sources they work with, and how confident they are to begin with. From that we put together a plan that matches the group, rather than handing over the same Microsoft Power BI course we ran for someone else last month.

Sessions can be one to one or for a whole team, run remotely over Teams or in person at your office, and we always leave behind written notes, recordings and a small library of example reports people can come back to. For a typical group we recommend a short block of Power BI training to get going, then a few hours of follow up support each month while the team finds its feet.

Most of our Power BI training is run for groups of three to eight people, which is small enough that everyone gets a turn at the keyboard. Larger groups are fine for the introductory sessions but the hands on building work is always better in small numbers. We will tell you honestly which format suits the goals you have set.

From Microsoft Excel to Microsoft Power BI

Helping Excel users feel at home in Power BI.

A lot of the people we train have spent years in Microsoft Excel and quietly worry that Power BI will be too technical. It is not, but the way you think about your data does have to shift a little. In Excel you tend to work with one big sheet at a time. In Microsoft Power BI you connect to your data sources once, model the relationships properly, and then build reports and dashboards off the top.

Our Power BI training spends real time on that mindset change. We walk through familiar Microsoft Excel examples and rebuild them in Power BI step by step, so the link between what people already know and what Power BI does is obvious. By the end of the first session almost everyone has built a simple report on their own data and seen it refresh without anyone copying and pasting anything.

For teams with a business analyst or finance lead who already writes complex Excel formulas, we cover DAX and Power Query in enough depth that they can keep extending the reporting in house. Nothing is hidden behind black boxes. If a measure exists in your model, somebody on your team will know how it works and how to change it.

Who we run Power BI training for

Friendly Power BI courses for real working teams.

Finance teams

Power BI training for finance teams who want to move month end reporting out of Microsoft Excel and into proper interactive reports and dashboards. We focus on the measures and visuals that match how a finance team actually reviews numbers.

Business analyst teams

A deeper Microsoft Power BI course for a working business analyst, covering modelling, DAX, Power Query and report design. Hands on, on your own data sources, and pitched at someone who already lives in numbers all day.

Operations and service teams

Practical sessions for operations managers who want clearer business analytics on throughput, service levels and resource use. Short, focused, and built around the questions you get asked in your own management meetings.

Senior leaders and report users

Shorter Power BI training for the people who read reports and dashboards rather than build them. How to navigate them, how to ask better questions of the data, and how to spot the business insights that matter.

What you walk away with

Working reports, not a stack of slides.

Every Power BI training engagement we run is built so the team finishes with something usable. That usually means at least one fully working report connected to your own data sources, a clean Power BI model the team understands, and a short written guide covering the steps we worked through together. People can come back to that guide in three months when they want to build the next thing.

We also help you avoid the common traps. Sprawling files nobody can maintain, duplicate measures that give slightly different answers, dashboards that look impressive in a demo but no one uses because the numbers feel wrong. A good Power BI course should leave you with the habits that prevent all of that, not just the buttons to click.

If you want to keep developing the team after the formal Power BI training ends, we offer a small monthly support block. That gives whoever owns reporting somebody to ring when they hit a wall, plus regular reviews of what they have built so the quality stays high as the library of reports and dashboards grows. Most teams find that arrangement far cheaper than hiring a full time analyst, and it keeps the knowledge inside the business rather than locked up with a consultancy.

How Power BI training fits with the rest of our work

Training, consultancy and dashboard design under one roof.

Power BI training is one of three things we do. We also run Power BI consultancy engagements where we build the first set of reports and dashboards for you, and we offer dashboard design for organisations that want senior help on how their reporting should look and behave. Plenty of clients start with a small consultancy piece to prove the value, then bring us back to train the team once they want to take more of it in house.

That mix means our Power BI training is never abstract. The examples we walk through in a Microsoft Power BI course are the same patterns we use every day on real client work. When you ask a question in a session we have almost certainly seen it before, and we can tell you what tends to work and what quietly causes trouble six months in.

If you would like to talk through what would suit your team, please get in touch. We will come back the same working day with an honest suggestion for where to start and a clear price for the first block of Power BI training, with no pressure to commit to anything bigger before you have seen how it goes.

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Tell us a bit about your team and we will suggest a sensible place to begin.

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