Preston is the administrative and commercial heart of Lancashire, with a strong public sector presence alongside aerospace, advanced manufacturing and professional services. Most of those organisations already have Microsoft Power BI sitting in their Microsoft 365 tenancy. The challenge is rarely the tool. It is finding training that is pitched at the people who will actually do the work, on the data sources they actually use. That is exactly what our Power BI training is built for.
For public sector teams the work is usually about reporting that has to be repeatable and defensible. A monthly performance pack, a grants report, a service dashboard for senior officers. Our Power BI course covers how to connect to the systems already in use, how to document the model so the figures stand up at scrutiny, and how to set things up so any trained person on the team can refresh things without depending on one individual being in the office.
For aerospace and advanced manufacturing clients the focus tends to shift toward business analytics. Quality, throughput, supplier performance, customer KPIs. We show your team how to pull data from ERP and quality systems into a clean Power BI model, then how to build reports and dashboards that surface genuine business insights for the production floor and the management team. If you have a business analyst in the room they will leave with the DAX and Power Query skills to keep extending things on their own.
A lot of the people we train across Preston are deep Microsoft Excel users. We do not try to talk them out of Microsoft Excel, because Excel is still the right tool for plenty of jobs. Instead the Power BI course shows where the line sits. When you should keep working in Excel, when you should be modelling properly in Power BI, and how to move work cleanly between the two when the situation calls for it. That practical framing tends to land much better than a purist message either way.
Sessions are kept small. Three to eight people works best, because everyone gets a turn at the keyboard and nobody hides at the back. We can run the training on site at your office in Preston or remotely over Teams, usually as two or three short half day blocks with time between for people to try things on their own data. We leave written notes, recorded sessions and a small library of example reports behind, so the team can refer back when they hit something new in three months.
We also support teams across the rest of Lancashire and into Greater Manchester, including in Bolton, Manchester and on the coast. If you would like to chat, 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.