Team training workshop

Team training workshop...

Data & AI Literacy for Managers

Your managers sign off numbers and AI results they did not make. This workshop teaches them to read a chart, question a figure, understand what AI can and cannot do, and decide with confidence. No analyst skills needed.

What it is...

A Hands-On Team Training Workshop

Data and AI Literacy for Managers is a hands-on team training workshop that teaches managers to read charts and numbers, question any figure, and understand what AI can and cannot do, so they can decide with confidence.

Half a day or a full day. Remote or on site. Led by Otto Ottinger.

You learn

How to read charts, averages and trends, and how to spot the ones that mislead.

You practise

Questioning a real report and an AI answer, and showing how sure you are.

You leave with

A chart-reading checklist and a short list of questions to ask of any number and any AI answer.

Global audience, global customers

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

The Datalabs Agency has run more than 250 workshops for government agencies and corporations, remotely and on site. Here are a few of our recent clients.

Your managers need...charts they can read.the right question to ask.to know when AI is guessing.the confidence to decide.
Managers around a block bar chart with a magnifying glass

Why it matters...

Managers Decide on What They Can Read

Managers approve reports, budgets and AI-assisted work every week. If they cannot read the chart or question the result, a wrong number gets through. Literacy is a leadership skill, not a technical one.

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Is this for you...

What It Helps With and Who It Is For

Managers sign off numbers and AI results they did not make. This workshop teaches them to question both.

What it helps with

  • Reading charts and numbers with confidence
  • Asking better questions of any figure
  • Knowing what AI can and cannot do, and what to check
  • Deciding, and showing how sure you are

Who it is for

  • Team leaders
  • Executive-level managers
  • Senior leaders who approve and present data-driven work
  • Not analysts: no technical skills needed

What to bring

  • A recent report you have signed off
  • A dataset that you'd like to workshop in the training sessions
  • Your preferred AI: Microsoft Copilot, Claude or OpenAI ChatGPT

Four modules...

What Your Managers Work Through

1. Read the numbers

Read charts, averages and trends with confidence, and spot the ones that mislead.

2. Ask better questions

What was measured, what is missing, who collected it, and what would change the answer.

3. Understand AI

What AI does well and badly, how it gets things wrong, and what to check before you rely on it. Hands-on in your preferred AI.

4. Decide and communicate

Use data and AI output in a brief or decision, show how sure you are, and keep a person checking the result.

What you take away...

Skills You Use in the Next Meeting

Your managers leave with a chart-reading checklist, a short list of questions to ask of any number and of any AI answer, and practice on their own reports.

Pencil sketch of a circled point on a line chart

Hands-on, with your AI...

Use the AI Your Company Prefers

Exercises run in your company’s preferred AI: Microsoft Copilot, Claude or OpenAI ChatGPT, on your managers’ own reports and decisions. No new software to buy.

Planning it...

How It Runs

Half a day or a full day

Your team chooses. Both cover the same four modules.

Remote or on site

Teams or Zoom, or at your agency, for teams of 5 to 30.

Fixed price per team

Quoted in your currency before you commit, so there are no surprises.

You keep the work

A chart-reading checklist and a list of questions to ask of data and AI.
Otto Ottinger, your trainer

Your trainer...

Otto Ottinger

Founder of The Datalabs Agency. Started as an editor and interactive designer at National Geographic.

250+ workshops · Government and corporate teams

Questions & Answers

data and AI literacy workshop

The skills to read a chart, question a figure, understand what AI can and cannot do, and decide with confidence, without becoming an analyst. The Datalabs Agency teaches it through your own reports and decisions.

Online modules teach the concepts. This workshop is hands-on: your managers work through their own reports and AI outputs with a trainer, so the skills carry over to Monday morning.

Half a day or a full day. Private team workshops are priced per team, remotely or on site. We confirm a fixed price in your currency before you commit.

Your company’s preferred AI: Microsoft Copilot, Claude or OpenAI ChatGPT. Tell us which, and we run the exercises in it. We do not assume any tool is approved for your agency.

We run a design process built around people: designers with more than ten years of dashboard experience, and project managers who run every engagement. We use AI inside that process, for analysis, visualization and storytelling, to move faster. What the data says, and how it looks, stays with our team. We also teach your team to use AI in their own analysis, dashboard design and presentations. See our AI Consulting page.

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