Sophic's Development Workshops For Data Analysts
All our workshops are interactive and combine theory, discussion examples and exercises.
All our workshops are 4 hours in duration whether delivered on-site or online.
All workshops are facilitated by Steve Hulmes, an experienced analytical manager and coach with over 25 years industry experience.
Working Consultatively
Improve your stakeholder engagement & perception
This key module focusses on the mindset and communication practices that can help you transition to a more proactive, consultative way of working that will improve your impact on your stakeholders whilst reducing re-work.
"Enjoyed the workshop a lot. The four hours flew by, didn't check the clock even once! Very useful discussions. There were quite a few points to take away from the workshop."
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"Really useful. Engaging. Exercises were great."
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"It's very relevant with what I do and I would recommend it to other analysts."
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"Really useful. Engaging. Exercises were great."
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"Overall, I really enjoyed the workshop. Steve is a great leader with tonnes of experience."
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Managing Workloads & Expectations
Reduce your stress levels and enhance your reputation
This practical online workshop provides you with key steps and techniques to help avoid over-promising and under-delivering, which represents one of the key sources of stakeholder frustration but is also a major cause of analyst stress.
"This was a really useful workshop for me personally, especially the Being Assertive section as it's given me the self-awareness, motivation and some tools to help me work on this aspect."
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"Excellent! Very relatable and lots to take away and develop in the team."
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"Really useful session which (once again) allowed me to identify issues that I face and ways to improve/deal with them more effectively."
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"Excellently delivered and the contents very useful for the team, highlighting our weaknesses that we need to work on and reminding us what we should be doing as 'Analysts'."
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Impactful Reporting
A framework for designing robust and intuitive reports
Ensuring your outputs are intuitive, coherent and insightful is key to developing impactful reports. This workshop provides a framework for a developing needs-based report designs with guidance for providing effective accompanying commentary and interpretation.
"Delivered to a high standard and very engaging. It was a very relevant workshop for the Analysts and would highly recommend it."
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"Very informative. Very focused on service needs and delivery to external providers.... I also appreciate the facilitator's focus on (the) individual ."
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"Another excellent session."
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"Great workshop and very relevant to my job."
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"I enjoyed this workshop and learn a lot from the Hierarchical report section."
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Data Visualisation
The know-how to develop simple, effective visuals
Delivering insights and trends through charts can be incredibly impactful, however, often the array of options for visualisations can be overwhelming, In this workshop we provide the key steps to enable you to develop simple and effective charts through theory, examples and practice.
"Excellently delivered workshop and possibly the most relevant for the Analysts in getting us thinking on the approach to take when structuring and presenting data."
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"Every aspect of this workshop was really useful as an analyst "
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"Very helpful."
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"Really enjoyed it - nice mix of presentation and group work."
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"Perfect. Helps to think out of the box in many ways I haven't considered."
All of our workshops use an interactive format with plenty of examples and exercises to help you understand the theory and methodologies. Open discussion is also actively encouraged to help analysts get the most out of the experience. Our workshops cover a broad range of topics and provide soft skills training that is specifically tailored to the needs of analysts.
Our workshops are relevant for anyone whose job it is to convert data into reports or analyses. Previous participants have included data scientists, retail analysts, fraud analysts, risk analysts, business intelligence analysts, and customer insight analysts.