Other
regional courses
Presentation Skills
gives you the skills to set objectives and achieve your desired
outcome from a meeting. It will deliver real, practical improvements
in your performance.
For full details of training dates for 2008 click
here.
In House
Training
Can't make the listed training dates? Need training for a
number of your staff?
Looking to minimise time out of the office?
The DBA offers a
range of in-house training solutions all of which can be tailored
to suit your specific needs. Contact Jeremy to discuss what
options are available to you on 0207 251 9229 or by email
jeremy.crow@dba.org.uk
All of our courses
have been allocated a Continous Professional Development (CPD)
value which will enable you to build a personal record of
your training achievements. Click here
to find out more about CPD.
What
DBA training did for me
I guess at Wire, we are like most other small design companies,
we loved designing and did what we had to on the business
side to keep us in beer. I looked at the DBA courses but immediately
acted like a tight designer and convinced myself that I pretty
much knew what I was doing. It wasn’t until I’d
had another day of grief with a client who didn’t understand
what we were doing and didn’t want to pay us much money
that I decided to give it a go.
It’s hard to say where I benefited most. I reckon that
I took about two new memorable and practical things from just
about every course. I’d won lots of pitches and done
loads of presentations over seven years and was really sceptical
about the presentation skills course. I didn’t want
to learn slick presentation tricks and be turned into a big
agency smarm-ball. I was shocked to learn that you could keep
your integrity but present so that clients completely understood
you and your ideas. In the next month, we went through three,
big, difficult pitches and walked away with all of them.
It’s massively
helped with presenting initial ideas too once the projects
started. I’ll have to accept what the trainer said ‘good
presenters are made and not born.’
I hate finances and I switch off every time an accountant
starts talking but the simplicity and ideas behind the financial
planning and management courses have changed the way we operate
and monitor our pipeline and growth. The whole experience
has changed my approach to the design business. It’s
a revelation to realise that you can get more creative control
whilst making more money. We’ve now agreed a direction
for the company and we’ll be expanding into other areas
and a new studio in the next year and all without financial
risk.We’re even about to do our first ever marketing
campaign.
John Corcoran, Director, Wire Design
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