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Online learning

People Power Data

A leadership course to grow your team and data literary with confidence.

People Power Data is our online course designed for leaders, managers and HR professionals to help develop an understanding of their organisation’s data needs. This course leadership data course is a must-have in your professional development journey if you work with employees or teams who use data and AI.

Learn how to define and source your skills requirements and develop or source employees with the proper knowledge.

During the course, you will examine the challenges of upskilling an organisation within the context of strategic and societal expectations, with practical tools and techniques to inform your learning.

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Who is this course for?

This course is for you if you are involved in building or growing a data literate team. You may be looking to develop an understanding of your organisation’s data skills needs, or actively working to define and source new employees. It is for organisational leaders, HR or recruitment professionals in charge of building data capacity and teams, or any data-curious person looking to improve their data literacy, and understand what best-practice looks like.

The course is not industry-specific and applies to learners across all sectors from anywhere in the world.

What will you learn?

  • Understand what data profiles exist or are needed within your organisation
  • Identify specific skills requirements by considering both what your people and your organisation need to succeed 
  • Learn how to maximise the talent you have, and understand your talent and recruitment gaps
  • Develop a strategy for embedding data literacy across your whole team

The content kept me engaged and enthusiastic throughout. The most impactful part was providing the definition and clarity around skills and requirements, which encourages thinking around capability and future needs.

People Power Data online course participant

You will leave this course with the confidence to articulate and justify the upskilling and reskilling plan required by your organisation, and your people, to succeed in today’s data-driven society. You’ll have a clear roadmap unique to your journey, an increased understanding of your skill requirements, and the next steps for success.

Course structure

Our courses are not technical and can be done at your own pace. They are guaranteed to have an impact on the way that your business uses data. These courses have been created specifically for those working in businesses or organisations – which differ from the traditional personal upskilling journey of other courses in this realm. Interested in further learning? Discover our full portfolio of online courses

Enrolment and Pricing

Talk to us to get a custom quote for your organisation.

Completion requirements

In order to earn a completion badge, learners must complete all modules and associated quizzes with an 80% passing grade or above

Modules

Module 1: Understanding People’s Needs

  • Explore the data profiles of your organisation, and society
  • Consider how these data profiles map and apply to your organisation
  • Identify your specific skills requirements to succeed

Module 2: Setting Yourself Up for Success

  • Understand society’s data expectations and how this impacts your organisation
  • Align your upskilling needs with your business ambitions
  • Identify how to mitigate bias in data

Module 3: Your Upskilling and Reskilling Plan

  • Capture the organisational opportunity you are striving for
  • Identify the skills gap between what you have and what you need
  • Build your upskilling and reskilling plan from proven resources

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