Founder-led training programme
Business Data Analytics Training (Excel, BI & Insights)
Turn disconnected data into governed analysis, decision-ready dashboards and recommendations managers can act on.
Build a repeatable path from raw operational and financial data to a clear management recommendation, with ownership of the metrics, refresh cycle and controls made explicit.
Duration: 1 day intensive or 3 half-day private team programme.
One-day intensive or three-half-day private team programme
Format: Public Online · Private Online · On-Demand.
Public Online, Private Online or On-Demand
Level: all_levels.
Managers, analysts and reporting teams
Overview
What this programme covers
Trace the path from an unreliable reporting picture to a governed recommendation a manager can challenge and use.
Business data becomes useful only when people can trace it, interpret it and connect it to a decision. This applied programme is for managers, analysts and reporting teams working with unreliable inputs, disconnected spreadsheets or dashboards that describe activity without clarifying what to do next. Participants work through Excel analysis, Power BI modelling, KPI design and evidence-led visualisation as parts of one decision process rather than isolated software skills. They examine where definitions diverge, identify assumptions that could distort a result and practise presenting operational and financial evidence as a concise management recommendation. The workplace output is a governed decision dashboard and analysis workbook, supported by named metric ownership, refresh, access and definition controls. The emphasis is not on producing more charts. It is on making analysis understandable, challengeable and useful at the point a team must choose an action.
Evidence standard
Evidence and learning boundaries
Participants demonstrate analytical learning by defining a useful question, explaining calculations and assumptions, defending a recommendation, and documenting governance choices in their dashboard and workbook. The evidence lies in traceable reasoning and decision usefulness, not attendance.
Learning outcomes
What participants will learn
Participants should leave able to frame, test, explain and govern analysis around a defined management decision.
Diagnose where unreliable inputs, conflicting definitions or disconnected spreadsheets weaken the decisions a dashboard is meant to support.
Use Excel analysis and Power BI modelling to structure operational and financial evidence around a defined management question.
Select KPIs that describe the decision, owner and required response instead of reporting activity without context.
Present findings through evidence-led visualisation and a concise recommendation whose assumptions and limitations can be challenged.
Define metric ownership, refresh, access and definition controls for a governed dashboard and analysis workbook.
Programme structure
Programme modules
The programme moves from decision framing through model challenge and KPI design to a governed recommendation pack.
Start with the decision, not the dashboard
Participants examine a current reporting problem and define the decision the analysis must support. They map the data sources, spreadsheet hand-offs, competing definitions and missing context that make the existing picture unreliable. This creates a focused analytical question and a proportionate evidence plan before anyone reaches for a chart, formula or model.
Shape and test the analytical model
The second module connects Excel analysis with Power BI modelling. Participants organise fields, test calculations and examine how joins, filters, time periods and assumptions change the apparent result. The focus is practical model judgement: making the route from source data to reported measure visible enough for another person to review, reproduce and challenge.
Design KPIs and visuals for action
Participants distinguish a useful management indicator from a convenient count. They define the question, owner, threshold and response attached to each KPI, then select visual treatments that reveal comparison, movement or exception without overstating the evidence. The exercise turns an analytical result into a short, decision-ready view for a manager rather than a crowded reporting screen.
Build the governed recommendation pack
The final module brings the analysis, dashboard and management narrative together. Participants prepare a concise recommendation, state its assumptions and limitations, and identify the action or further evidence required. They also define who owns each metric, how it is refreshed, who can access it and how definitions are controlled, producing a governed decision dashboard and analysis workbook for workplace use.
Audience
Who this is for
Best suited to people who create, own or rely on management reporting and can improve how evidence is handled.
Managers who receive dashboards or management reports and need to interrogate the evidence before deciding what to do.
Analysts and reporting professionals responsible for turning operational or financial data into useful management insight.
Cross-functional teams working across disconnected spreadsheets, inconsistent definitions or competing versions of a measure.
Report owners who need a practical governance approach for metrics, dashboard refreshes, access and definition control.
Fit check
Pause before booking when
People seeking a regulated qualification, formal certification or an examination-led course in Excel, Power BI or data analytics.
Teams looking only for advanced software engineering, data-science modelling or platform administration without a management-decision focus.
Organisations expecting a finished production dashboard to be delivered as consultancy without participant ownership of the analysis and controls.
Delivery and pricing
Choose the route that fits the cohort
Select a supported format according to cohort needs, existing tools and the analytical context agreed during scoping.
Delivery
Public Online
An announced virtual cohort follows the complete decision-led analytics sequence using live demonstrations and structured exercises. Enrolment depends on the stated date, joining method, participant preparation and materials shown with the offer.
Delivery
Private Online
A closed organisational group can learn online through questions and examples relevant to its operating context. The sponsor approves analytical depth, team roles and the information permitted within facilitated challenge.
Delivery
On-Demand
Independent study is available only where a current package explicitly offers it. The buyer checks duration of access, included Excel or BI resources and any feedback mechanism before committing.
Delivery
Applied materials and review
Working materials guide participants towards a decision dashboard plus analytical workbook. A later critique of those outputs belongs in the engagement only when the proposal names that review and its boundaries.
£345 to £545
Public Online
The named public cohort fee covers its live teaching, analytical exercises, stated resources and attendance evidence for that particular date.
£2,500 to £3,200
Private Tutor-Led
Closed-team pricing considers participant experience, management questions, current tools, permitted examples and the adaptation agreed for virtual facilitation.
£129 to £199
On-Demand
The self-directed amount applies only where access duration, included workbooks, BI resources and any feedback provision are displayed with the offer.
Founder-led delivery
Tobi Akiode
Founder-led facilitation focused on decision-led analysis, transparent assumptions and governed management reporting.
Tobi Akiode personally leads Business Data Analytics Training (Excel, BI & Insights), integrating analytical practice with management judgement and organisational capability. Excel analysis, Power BI modelling, KPI design and evidence-led visualisation stay anchored to the decisions, definitions and operating context brought by the cohort.
Discovery with Tobi Akiode establishes the management question, analytical starting point and workplace output before the learning route is designed. The same founder facilitates the agreed cohort, avoiding an unexpected handover. Participants retain ownership of source quality, recommendations and dashboard governance.
Questions
What buyers usually ask before booking
Confirm the programme’s decision focus, required experience, delivery boundaries and ownership of any workplace dashboard.
Is this a software course or a management analytics programme?
This is a management analytics course using Excel and Power BI inside a wider decision method. Learners also address KPI meaning, visual explanation, assumptions, recommendations and governance. It goes beyond feature instruction without claiming to teach advanced data science, engineering or platform administration. Decision usefulness guides every software choice.
What should participants be able to do after the programme?
Learners practise framing a management question, challenging data fitness, structuring analysis and selecting measures relevant to the decision. They must explain recommendations without concealing assumptions. Their workbook and dashboard also state definition governance, access ownership and refresh controls for later organisational use. These controls make reasoning reviewable later.
Do participants need to be data analysts?
An analyst job title is unnecessary. Managers who rely on reports, analysts who assemble them and teams accountable for reporting quality can all benefit. Scoping identifies existing tools and confidence so the examples and technical depth match the people attending. Role diversity strengthens evidence challenge.
How can this analytics training be delivered?
Buyers may choose a scheduled virtual cohort, a closed online team format or an explicitly available self-directed route. Organisation-specific examples are confined to the private option. Current terms set out dates or access, participant arrangements, resources and whether facilitator feedback is included. Availability must match the chosen route.
Will the facilitator build our production dashboard for us?
No. Learners create a decision dashboard and analytical workbook to demonstrate the method, not a finished reporting system delivered by a consultant. The organisation owns definitions, source controls and implementation. Building or deploying a production solution would require a distinct technical brief. Technical deployment remains separately governed.
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