Chester has a dense cluster of financial services, insurance, legal and professional firms, plus a long list of tourism and hospitality businesses across the city. Most of them already have Microsoft Power BI as part of their Microsoft 365 setup and have not yet found a good way to turn that licence into something genuinely useful. Our Power BI training in Chester is designed to do exactly that, without forcing your team to sit through a generic classroom day that bears no resemblance to their actual work.
For finance and professional services clients we usually start with a Power BI course that covers how to connect to your data sources properly. The finance system, the practice management tool, a CRM, the inevitable handful of Microsoft Excel files that finance and operations rely on. We build the first working model on the screen in the session, and have everyone produce a real report before the first half day finishes. That early win tends to make the rest of the course feel much more manageable.
For groups with a working business analyst in the room we go deeper into DAX, Power Query and proper modelling. The aim is that the analyst leaves able to extend the reporting on their own as the firm grows, rather than needing a consultancy every time a partner asks a new question. For mixed groups including partners and senior managers, we add shorter sessions on how to read a dashboard well and how to use the reports to drive real business analytics conversations rather than just looking at pretty charts.
A lot of the people we train in Chester are very strong in Microsoft Excel and quietly worry that Power BI will feel too unfamiliar. It does not, but the shift in mindset is real. The Power BI course spends time on that, rebuilding familiar Microsoft Excel examples 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 most people have built a working report on their own data and watched it refresh without anyone copying or pasting anything.
Tourism and hospitality clients in Chester tend to want something slightly different. Booking trends, revenue per cover or per room, staffing against demand. The same training works well for those teams because we adjust the examples and the depth to whoever is in the room. The aim is always that the duty manager or finance lead can open a dashboard on a phone and answer their own questions, instead of waiting for a weekly report that arrives after the moment has passed.
We can run the Power BI course on site in Chester or remotely over Teams, and we support teams along the road in Liverpool, across the M62 in Manchester and up into Lancashire in Preston. If you would like to chat about what would suit your team, please drop us a line and we will come back the same working day. You can also read more about our broader Power BI training, our Power BI consultancy work, or our dashboard design services.