Soft Skills Workshop for Analysts to Succeed in Business

The Softer Skills that analysts need to be effective in their roles and drive change in their business

Paul Laughlin

Managing Director, Laughlin Consultancy

Soft Skills Workshop for Analysts to Succeed in Business

Paul Laughlin

Managing Director, Laughlin Consultancy

The Soft Skills that Analysts Need to succeed in business

Paul Laughlin

Most analysts have never been trained in how to do their job. That sounds like a shocking statement, but research suggests the majority of analysts have only received training in programming, software packages or data specific to the organisation.

Very few have ever received training on a workflow, for completing analysis work. Even fewer have been trained in all the softer skills needed to complement their technical skills.

This half-day workshop is designed to provide both an introduction to the softer skills that analysts need, and a 9-step workflow. Grounded in 15 years’ experience of creating and leading analytics teams, this workshop enables analysts to understand the role softer skills play, as well as identify their ‘gaps’.

Delegates leave with greater self-awareness, a model to benchmark their performance and recommended resources to continue their own CPD.

Cost: £440 per person

Soft Skills Workshop for Analysts to Succeed in Business

Paul Laughlin - Managing Director, Laughlin Consultancy

WHY IT'S IMPORTANT

What are the other skills (beyond technical) that analysts need to succeed in their roles?
How do soft skill fit with the way analysts need to work to deliver effective analysis?
How can analysts better manager their stakeholders?
What else is needed before an after Data Visualisation to ensure it lands well?

WHAT IS COVERED

Introduction to the 9-Step Model for Effective Analysis – a workflow to help analysts achieve effective analysis
How to identify the real business need rather than just delivering what has been requested
How to improve your stakeholder management before and after your technical work
How to generate insights, rather than just present individual pieces of analysis
How to influence action as a result of your analysis and data visualisation.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Understand the 9-step workflow for delivering effective analysis and data visualisation
Know when and how to apply different soft skills to be more effective at each step of that workflow
Recognise where you need to develop further, where to focus for your CPD on soft skills
Take away both practical tips from experience and CPD resources for your continued learning.

TYPE: Workshop

LENGTH: Half day (19 November)

SCOPE: Operational

AUDIENCE: All teams with analyst roles, across all business functions

SKILLS NEEDED: Experience working as an analyst

EXPERTISE: Foundation

TAGS: BI, Commercial Skills, Presentations, Soft Skills, Training & Development

Join this workshop live - 19 November 2020

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Paul Laughlin

Managing Director, Laughlin consultancy

Newport (Uk)

Paul is an international speaker and chair at events focused on data, analytics and customer insight. He has been speaking professionally for over 15 years. He is the editor of CustomerInsightLeader.com and host of the Customer Insight Leader podcast. Feedback on Paul’s chairing and speaking is consistently excellent, with delegates citing his entertaining manner and keeping the content relevant for them. Paul is also the founder of Laughlin Consultancy, a business that enables companies to master the People Side of Data & Analytics. Services include training, leadership mentoring, speaking and writing.

MSc Computing for Commerce & Industry
PGD Executive Coaching & Mentoring Member of both Association for Coaching & British Psychological Society

Consultant Lecturer at the University of South Wales (MSc Data Science & MSc Financial Services Management)
Editorial Board Member at The Bottom Line journal (Emerald Insight)
Latest academic paper: AI in Strategic Marketing Decision-Making: A Research Agenda

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