Power BI masterclass 2026

Overview

Take your reporting skills further by learning how to design engaging and interactive Power BI dashboards. This session focuses on creating impactful visualisations, applying filters and slicers effectively, enabling drill-through analysis, and implementing best-practice report design techniques. Participants will also learn how to publish reports to the Power BI Service and share insights with others.

This session covers:

·       More in depth overview of visuals - table and matrix visualisation – conditional formatting

·       Overview of slicers vs filters

·       Filters at visual level, page level and report level.

·       Top N, generating drill through pages,

·       Overview of visual interaction, grouping visualisations etc.

·       Best practises for designing a report (e.g., Themes, illustrations, Filters and Slicers)

·       Saving work in progress files and .pbix files

·       Publishing simple report to Power BI workspace

Overview

Discover how to work with multiple datasets and unlock deeper business insights through effective data modelling. Participants will learn how to connect and relate data from different sources, create hierarchies, manage relationships, and use date tables to enhance reporting capabilities. This session provides the practical skills needed to build scalable and dynamic analytical reports.

This session covers:

·       Connect to multiple sources of data creating relationships

·       Clean data using Query Editor: filter, remove rows, replace vales, create and modify columns, calculation, date, merge text

·       Working with hierarchies

·       Build visuals from multiple data sources

·       How filters and slicers work with 1 – many relationships

·       Import a Date Table and link to date fields on other data sources

Overview

Master the advanced features that bring Power BI reports to life. This session introduces key DAX concepts including calculated columns, measures, and time intelligence functions such as YTD and MTD calculations. Participants will also explore advanced report functionality including bookmarks and customised views, before learning how to publish, share, and export professional reports for business users.

This session covers:

·       Overview of Calculated columns vs Measures

·       Introduce DAX functions for manipulating Dates – YTD, MTD, etc

·       Aggregate functions – SUM, SUMX, CALCULATE, RELATED, RELATEDTABLE, SELECTED VALUE

·       Overview of Bookmarks, customised views

·       Publish to Power BI workspaces, save as PDF.

Celia Henderson

Experienced learning and development professional providing a comprehensive package of training and support services in the private and public sectors – health, financial, legal, banking, investment, education, land-based, automotive and commercial. Contracts require me to be involved in all stages of the training process, from identifying training needs through to collection and analysis of delegate and manager post-training feedback. Friendly and approachable with a love of learning and sharing knowledge and skills.

Celia describes herself as a competent, conscientious and energetic trainer; an experienced learning and development professional with a natural ability and enthusiasm to assimilate and disseminate new technologies and soft skills. Committed to delivering first class training enabling learners and clients to meet and exceed their expectations. A confident decision maker who communicates effectively and works well with individuals and teams at all levels. Celia owned and ran her own Recruitment and Training company in West Sussex for 15 years employing full time staff and managing a team of 200 temporary staff. She has worked in Learning and Development since 1995

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