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Virtual Workshop: From HR Data to Insight: People Analytics Foundations for HR

November 17 @ 6:30 pm - November 23 @ 8:30 pm

Program Overview

This guided pre-course gives HR professionals with little or no Power BI experience the practical foundation needed to use data with confidence.

Description

This guided pre-course gives HR professionals with little or no Power BI experience the practical foundation needed to use data with confidence. Through carefully paced instruction, hands-on practice and optional support, participants build a workforce report and use it to explore a decision-relevant question.

The goal is not to create data scientists. It is to equip HR professionals to combine what they already understand about people with analytical capabilities and the systems needed to make insight possible.

Course Design

  • Two, two-hour classes
  • Each class combines approximately one hour of guided instruction and demonstration with one hour of supported, hands-on practice
  • One prepared HR dataset and one report developed across both classes
  • Deliberately paced for participants with little or no Power BI experience

 

Class 1: Building a Clear People Analytics & Intelligence Report (Nov 17th 2026)

Purpose: build confidence in Power BI by creating clear data visualizations.

● How Power BI supports HR decision-making

● Navigating the report canvas, data fields and visual tools

● Opening a prepared HR dataset and understanding the information available

● Creating a headcount card, department chart and slicer

● Arranging and formatting visuals, titles and labels

● Applying simple chart selection and design principles

Class outcome: a clear, one-page workforce overview that participants can navigate and explain.

 

Class 2: Exploring Workforce Questions and Communicating Insight (Nov 23rd 2026)

Purpose: use the data to explore a workforce question and communicate what the information means for a decision.

● Starting with a clear organizational or workforce question

● Using filters, slicers and sorting to explore the data

● Examining patterns in tenure, absence, location or employment type

● Distinguishing a metric, an observation and an insight

● Explaining what was observed, why it may matter and what should be examined next

● Applying privacy and small-group considerations

Class outcome: a People Analytics & Intelligence report with a decision-focused explanation of its key finding.

Participant Outcomes

By the end of the Foundations Course, participants will be able to:

● Navigate the Power BI interface with confidence

● Build and format common workforce visuals

● Use filters, slicers and sorting to explore a workforce question

● Distinguish reporting from decision-relevant insight

● Communicate a finding with appropriate context and caution

● Begin the Certification course ready to focus on interpretation, storytelling and decision support

 

Optional Support Services

● Review difficult steps and troubleshoot technical issues

● Repeat key skills through screen-sharing and guided practice

● Introduce no new required content

Future Courses

This is the second part of a three-part series on Power BI and People Analytics. 

Course 1: October 22nd – The Future of HR is Data-Driven: Are You Ready? 
Course 2: November 17th & 23rd – From HR Data to Insight:  People Analytics Foundations for HR
Course 3: February 2027 – Certification Program: People Analytics & Intelligence 

About the Facilitator

An image of Jas BadeshaJason L. Urquhart

Jason L. Urquhart is a leading Canadian data practitioner and national consultant for human resources, insurance, finance, IT, and health professionals, integrating large datasets to empower these organizations and their people to reach their goals and objectives through analytics and decision science. Jason is HUB International’s Vice President of Advanced Analytics & Decision Science and Chief Client Data Scientist for large national clients.

He has more than 26 years of experience consulting in areas of analytics, data science, data privacy and security, innovation, digital and technology transformation, system design and optimization, safety metrics, certification and inspection, project and operations management, human capital management, and business development strategy.

Jason is a co-founder of Data Science Practitioners East, an open mentoring network of practicing and aspiring data scientists, and a member of the Python Software Foundation.

Jason is also a contracted instructor at the University of New Brunswick MBA program in the Faculty of Management for Advanced Analytics & Data Science Strategy and Data Visualization courses, a guest lecturer, a speaker at AI, data science and technology events, and a regional judge at national data competitions. He resides in Fredericton, NB.

Pricing

Members$500
Non-Members$665

 

Details

  • Start: November 17 @ 6:30 pm
  • End: November 23 @ 8:30 pm

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