Practical skills, fastShort Courses
Focused, hands-on courses on practical workplace skills — each one you can finish in an afternoon.
AI skillsFree
AI at Work: Direct, Prompt, Verify, Apply
Use generative AI safely and productively for everyday business tasks — and learn exactly when *not* to trust it.
- ✓Write prompts that produce usable first drafts on the first or second try, using a repeatable prompt structure.
- ✓Apply AI to six everyday business tasks: drafting/editing, summarizing, meeting prep, research first-drafts, simple data Q&A, and light automation.
- ✓Run a verification pass that catches hallucinations, fabricated sources, and confidently-wrong numbers before anything leaves your hands.
Data skills$49
Excel & Data Analysis (AI-accelerated): Formulas You Can Defend
Get faster answers out of your spreadsheets with AI — SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, PivotTables — and learn to catch the plausible-but-wrong formula before it reaches your boss.
- ✓Structure raw data as a clean Excel Table so formulas and PivotTables stay correct as the data grows.
- ✓Write the five workhorse functions from a plain-English spec: SUMIFS/COUNTIFS, XLOOKUP, IF, IFERROR, ROUND.
- ✓Build a PivotTable that answers a business question in under five minutes.
BI skills$49
Power BI Dashboards: Show Data People Can Trust
Build a clean Power BI report — get & clean data, model it, write measures in DAX, design for a decision — and learn to catch the AI-written measure that shows a confident, wrong number.
- ✓Explain the flow get & clean → model → visualize → publish, and which view does what.
- ✓Connect to and shape data in Power Query (types, headers, unpivot).
- ✓Build a simple star schema and explain why it beats one flat table.
Data skillsFree
Data Analyst Entry-Level Interview Prep
Walk into an entry-level data analyst interview knowing exactly what gets asked, how to structure your answers, and how to rehearse out loud — with a live AI mock panel on your own key.
- ✓Explain what a data analyst interview is really testing at each stage of a typical loop.
- ✓Recognise the six question types and shape a strong answer for each.
- ✓Structure any behavioural answer with the STAR method — situation, task, action, result.
Data skillsFree
Communicating as a Data Analyst
The skill that gets analysts promoted is not the query — it is explaining what it means. Learn to lead with the answer, cut the jargon, be honest about uncertainty, and turn analysis into decisions — then rehearse it against a live AI coach on your own key.
- ✓Explain why communication is the multiplier on every other analyst skill.
- ✓Lead with the bottom line (BLUF) and structure a message with the pyramid principle.
- ✓Translate a chart or a finding into a plain-language decision a non-technical reader can act on.
Every short course is included with the Mentored plan. On the Solo and Free plans, the free courses need only a login and the paid courses are a one-time purchase — you work through the lessons and lab in your browser and track your own progress as you go.