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Training courses for you and your team Last year over 400 delegates benefited from DBA training either by honing their professional practice skills or by getting to grips with presenting. Everyone from junior designers to creative directors, project managers to marketing directors attended the highly rated courses, which have been specifically developed for the design industry.




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"Excellent workshop.I have thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you."

Tanya Kozarski, Senior Account Manager, Haygarth

DBA Core Courses
1) DBA Professional Practice - Level One Training - These workshops are fundamental for everyone working in design. All creatives, project and account managers, administration, finance, production and technical staff will find it directly relevant to their work. Delegates are either within their first three years of employment or are more experienced staff seeking an invaluable refresher course.

2) DBA Professional Practice - Level Two Training - These workshops are for everyone at middle to senior levels working in design - from designers, project and account managers to strategists, administrators, marketing managers and directors.

3) Presentation Skills - Develop your presentation skills in these focused full-day training sessions. Chose either 'Improvers' or 'Advanced' and improve your confidence and ability in this essential skill.

To be considered as a speaker for any DBA training course or event, please email a brief summary of your experience and speaking credentials to sally@dba.org.uk

In-house training
Can't make the listed Level One, Two or Three 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 Sally to discuss what options are available to you on 020 7251 9229 or by email sally@dba.org.uk

Regional training
As always, the DBA aims to run training in the regions as often as possible. As we confirm dates, we'll publish them here and do our best to notify everyone via email.

All of our courses have been allocated a Continuous 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.

Who's attended before?

A few of the consultancies and in-house design teams who have recently benefited from DBA training include Adecco (IBM), AIG, BBC, Blue Marlin, Boxer, Checkland Kindleysides, Clarins UK, Elmwood, Felton, Fishburn Hedges, Fitch:London, Front Page, Gendall, Hat Trick, Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, Love, Mytton Williams, Norsk Hydro, Oakwood DC, PI Global, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Redpath, Rodd Industrial Design, Stand, The Big Picture, The Chase, The Design Group, The Nest, The Workshop, Turner Duckworth, Uniform, Vibrandt, Wave Design, Williams Lea.

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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