Where to start
Most teams don't need the whole curriculum on day one.
Start with whichever path matches how requests currently move through your organization. It's fine to change paths later, once you have a better sense of where the friction actually sits.
Starting paths
Pick the description closest to your situation
You're an individual manager
You submit requests on your own and want to improve how you frame them without waiting for a scheduled team session.
Suggested: Self-Paced Companion
You lead a small team
Your team submits several requests a month and would benefit from a shared template built around your own tools and language.
Suggested: Team Intensive
You coordinate across departments
Multiple teams route requests through a shared data function and need one common format everyone can use consistently.
Suggested: Cohort Workshop
Your team already tried something like this
You've been through similar training before but the habits have slipped, or your request types have changed since then.
Suggested: Manager Refresher
First session
What a first session usually covers
A short intake questionnaire
A handful of questions about how your team currently sends requests and what tends to go wrong, completed before the session.
A current-state review
A walk-through of one or two recent requests, looking at where scope, context, or format created confusion.
A first brief rewrite
Rewriting one real request using the one-page format, with feedback on what's still missing.
A plan for the next month
A short agreement on which upcoming requests will use the new format and when the follow-up session will happen.
Readiness check
A short checklist before you reach out
You don't need to answer yes to all of these. They're meant to help you describe your situation clearly when you get in touch.
- Do requests to your data team regularly come back with clarifying questions before any analysis starts?
- Do multiple people on your team submit requests without a shared format?
- Has a request ever been delivered on time but in a format nobody could actually use?
- Are you unsure how to push back on a timeline without sounding difficult?
- Has your team tried a fix for this before that didn't stick past the first few weeks?