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Power BI Training Courses (bite-sized)

This page shows our bite-sized half-day Power BI training courses. We also run a range of full day Power BI courses too.

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Benefits of our Power BI training

Not sure if we deserve all the reviews you can see on this site? Here are some of the things we do (very) differently to earn them.

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Friendly and professional training ... guaranteeed

How can any training company guarantee the quality of their courses? Here's how:

  • We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
  • Unlike almost every other computer training company, we never subcontract or use freelancers - here's why this matters.

The best courseware in the industry? See for yourself

Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:

Genuine integrity - and good manners

Our values are simple - we treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves. So:

  • We will - almost never - cancel courses. To see what "almost never" means see our no cancel guarantee.
  • There's nothing worse than being pestered, so we don't pester people. Ever.
  • It's dangerous to be sanctimionius, but we can see no possible benefit that tobacco and gambling companies bring to the world (and quite a lot of harm), so we choose not to work for them. Sorry.

You can see more on our corporate values here.

Innovative online training platform

We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:

  • Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
  • We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
  • As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.

Choose a bite-sized Power BI course, or list our full-length ones.

Course:

Our current bite-sized Power BI scheduled courses

Can't see the dates/course type that you want? Create your own onsite course (and tailor the content too!).

Course

Date

Venue/type

Duration

Price

UK times

 
We don't have any scheduled bite-sized courses for this combination of criteria: please try different options.
Bite-sized Bookmarks in Power BI Friday 31 July 2026 31 Jul Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 09:30-12:00 Book
Bite-sized Calculated Columns Friday 31 July 2026 31 Jul Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book
Bite-sized Filtering in Power BI Tuesday 04 August 2026 04 Aug Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 09:30-12:00 Book
Bite-sized Charts in Power BI Friday 14 August 2026 14 Aug Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book
Bite-sized Semantic Models Monday 17 August 2026 17 Aug Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book
Bite-sized Bookmarks in Power BI Tuesday 01 September 2026 01 Sep Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book
Bite-sized Calculated Columns Tuesday 01 September 2026 01 Sep Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 09:30-12:00 Book
Bite-sized Semantic Models Wednesday 02 September 2026 02 Sep Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book
Bite-sized Charts in Power BI Thursday 03 September 2026 03 Sep Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 09:30-12:00 Book
Bite-sized Filtering in Power BI Thursday 03 September 2026 03 Sep Online 2.5 hours £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book

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If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Our Power BI classroom training venues

What other people have said about our Power BI training

Here are some comments we've received about our Power BI + training. You can see all of our 399 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"Our trainer was very knowledgeable with the content, he knew exactly how the system worked, how to resolve issue and what it was capable of. He is a very likable person and confident with his delivery. The training was relaxed but very informative, and it was enjoyable as well."

Joanna Harrison

Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT

"Our trainer was brilliant. Really knowledgeable and personable and tailored elements of the course to queries that we had. The course content gave a great grounding in Power BI and following along using the remote desktop made the course engaging."

Celia Mayers

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

"Trainer was excellent at explaining and teaching, friendly and helpful. Also good flow of material and progression of topics. I also think it was a good idea to check technical set-up before the course."

Michaela Hoffmannova

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)

"The course content was great, perfect level for the group and our trainer was brilliant, very patient and kept us engaged throughout the day. We chose this course as we have a lot of data that we could analyse ourselves - we normally have to ask others for help which can take time but hopefully now we will be able to have a go. The content was great for beginners, and maybe in the future we can progress further!"

Laura Potter

Mitsubishi Electric UK

"Our trainer was brilliant. knows his stuff, spoke in a manner which meant we had time to understand and learn and for it to resonate. Spoke with us on our level so we could have more open conversation and he was able then to add further value to the experience. Course was comprehensive, yeah there is a lot to cover but it was covered in a logical manner, everything made sense and if not then he would explain in a way which helped make it clear."

James Ellis

Multiplex Engineering Limited

"A great trainer, very enthusiastic and very clear in his instructions and led at a good pace. Course content was great for a newbie to Power BI like myself. "

Suzanne Cowan

The Phoenix Group

About our Power BI training

The main Microsoft Power BI tools are as follows:

Application

Notes

Power BI Desktop

You can use Power BI Desktop to create visual, interactive reports which you can then publish to your organisation's website (or to a public site).  You can also use Power BI to create printable paginated reports.

Power Query

This is included within Power BI, and allows you to transform data as you're loading it.

Power BI Service

This allows you to view reports that you've published online, to create shared workspaces and apps and to pin tiles to dashboards.

Power BI Mobile

Use this part of Power BI Desktop to create reports to be viewed on mobile devices.

Our Power BI Courses

We run the following introductory courses in the Microsoft Power BI tools:

Course

What you'll learn

Introduction to Power BI

How to create visually interactive reports, including importing data, transforming it using Query Editor, creating visuals such as tables, matrices and charts, filtering data (for example, using slicers) and creating calculated columns and basic maps.

Not sure of the difference between standard on-screen interactive Power BI reports and paginated reports?  We've summarised them in this handy blog.

In addition, we have the following more advanced courses listed on our site:

Course

Notes

DAX

Learn how to create measures and calculated columns using DAX. If you're not sure what DAX is or how or why you'd use it, read this helpful guide.

Advanced Power BI (Reports)

Learn some more advanced features of creating Power BI reports, including bookmarks, tooltips and dynamic formatting.

Advanced Power BI (Data)

Learn more about some of the advanced features for transforming data in Power Query, as well as other advanced topics to do with data modelling in Power BI.

Finally, for those wanting to accelerate their learning we run two three-day fast-track courses:

Course

Notes

Fast-track Power BI

Attempting to cover all of the two-day Introduction to Power BI and parts of the two-day Advanced Power BI courses (Reports and Data) in three busy days.

Fast-track Power BI and DAX

In a similar vein, this three-day course aims to combine our two-day Introduction to DAX and two-day Introduction to Power BI courses.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

Click on any heading below to learn more.

How can I contact you with any questions?

You can reach us in one of the following ways:
Contact method Details
Phone Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
Email Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
Web Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!

Do you offer Power BI consultancy too?

Instead of having to struggle to create Power BI reports (including mastering creating measures in DAX), why not ask us to help? Get specific details about our Power BI consultancy, or more general information about how our consultancy works.

Is there an easy way for me to assess my Power BI skills?

You can take the following tests to assess your Power BI skills on this site:
Skills you want to test
Power BI Desktop

Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).

Do you have any Power BI videos?

We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn Power BI:

Category Description Videos

DAX for Power BI

Tutorial videos on writing DAX formulae within Power BI to create calculated columns, measures and queries

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Power BI

Our Power BI series of video tutorials will show you how to create reports in Power BI Desktop, Microsoft's standalone BI tool.

11

Power BI and DAX Tips

Tips and tricks for working in Power BI Desktop and in DAX.

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Do you ever blog about Power BI?

Have a look at our blogs on Power BI and the DAX language:
Blog topic
Power BI

Do you have any other Power BI learning resources?

In addition to our classroom and online Power BI training courses, we also have the following learning resources:

Resource Notes
Tips and tricks Useful tips and tricks to make Power BI easier
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