Our Data Literacy Training program empowers individuals with the knowledge and tools to become proficient in handling data. Whether you’re a beginner or seeking to enhance your data literacy skills, our program offers a comprehensive learning experience tailored to meet your needs.
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Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to equip the delegate with a solid understanding of key data concepts, as well as the skills to analyse, interpret and communicate data accurately, and with meaningful insights.
Course Content
Our “Reading the Story in Your Data” course is built around a clear progression: from understanding what a visual is actually showing you, to spotting what is unusual or misleading, to translating those observations into clear business statements that drive decisions. Key areas of focus include:
- The Data Storytelling Mindset: Why “reading a report” is a skill that must be learnt, building confidence in data interpretation.
- Anatomy of a Power BI Report: Pages, visuals, slicers and filters-a shared vocabulary and mental model for navigating reports.
- Reading the Right Visual: The core session of Day 1: what question each visual type answers, what it doesn’t, and how to read it correctly.
- Distributions, Outliers & Patterns: Understanding spread, shape and centre in plain language, spotting what is unusual in a visual.
- Misleading visuals: Truncated axes, false correlations, cherry-picked ranges and other common trps-and how to protect yourself from wrong conclusions.
- Insight Generation Cycle: Consolidating Day 1 and introducing the analytical mindset that turns observations into insights.
- Identifying Key Messages: Navigating a multi-visual report to find the two or three messages that deserve attention.
- Integrated Report Interpretation Lab: The most important practical session: a structured group exercise on a realistic multi-visual report.
- Turning Insights into Business narratives: What happened, why it happened, what we should do, the “So What? Now What?” framework
- Communicating Insights to Stakeholders: Tailoring the message for executives vs operations, the 3-minute story, handling pushback with evidence
- Capstone-The Report Brief Challenge: Teams interpret an unseen report and produce a one-page brief with key messages, caveats and a recommendation-then present it in three minutes.
Course Information
Format: Online, Instructor-led
Duration: 2 Days (+/- 14 Hours), Cohorts of up to 8 learners. A condensed 1-day version covering the Day 1 visual-literacy foundation is also available.
Target Audience: All Knowledge Users
Cost (Basic): R5,000 excl. VAT per person
Cost (Intermediate): R15,000 excl. VAT per person