The last post and video in this series looked at the broad topic of training. This post looks at as specific aspect of this topic: letting people know what is possible, and sparking their imagination to do amazing things.

A lot of content and training materials will focus on capabilities: here is a feature, this is what it does, and this is how you use it. Although this type of content is important, it isn’t enough on its own to accelerate the growth of a data culture.

The most successful organizations I’ve worked with have included in their community of practice content specifically targeting the art of the possible. This might be a monthly presentation by community champions across the business. It might be someone from the center of excellence highlighting new features, or the integration between features and tools. The most important thing is planting the seed of an idea in the minds of people who will say “I had no idea you could do that!”

My colleagues Miguel and Chris are some of my greatest personal sources of inspiration for building reports^[1] because each of them does amazing things with Power BI that make it powerful, usable, and beautiful – but they’re just two of the many people out there showing me new techniques and possibilities.

Who will you inspire today?

^[1] And by now you probably realize that I need all the inspiration I can get for anything related to data visualization.