Data literacy is a key enabler of the value and impact from data. How are you approaching this within your organisation?
Data literacy is a journey and must be tailored to prevailing culture of the organisation and multiple level audiences. For business leaders and peers, I take a practical approach through everyday conversations, meetings, and presentations to teach and coach about data literacy without having to create a special class for it.
As a result – though it has taken a bit of time – I get comments and feedback like “Oh! Now I get it”, and “This now makes sense”. This does not underestimate the place of formal sessions on the subject, but it works for me.
For the Data team, the focus is on enabling individuals to scale their capabilities across multiple capability-families and the validation of skills and experience through certifications. As a result, though in early days, we have had data analyst transitioning into data engineering roles and now have multiple members of the team acquire relevant certifications in alignment to my vision for the team.