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Training courses for you and your team                                               
Last year over 200 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.

2008 dates released!
Download a copy of the 2008 course details and booking form here

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"The DBA Professional Practice Course was by far and away the most relevant and useful course I have ever been on." 
                   
Chris Chatfield, Senior Designer, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

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New director level workshops
18 & 19 June 2008 - London

After successfully running modules in Scotland, the DBA is bringing two workshops to London which are aimed at directors, partners and senior management. Whilst you may think that you have everything under control, you can always pick up some new and useful knowledge which can only serve to better your business. Full details and booking form are here. Use this opportunity as a chance to refresh your skills, kickstart some change and maybe even learn a great deal!

DBA Core Courses
1) 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.


2) Professional Practice Stage One (PP1) gives junior staff a broad understanding of the industry and essential skills needed to be effective in their job, in turn helping to increase studio productivity levels.

3) Professional Practice Stage Two (PP2) enables middle/senior staff to develop their skills in areas that directly impact their performance and provides vital knowledge needed to work professionally alongside colleagues.


4 ) The value of design in business is aimed at senior, client facing staff within design agencies. This workshop will enable you to become more effective in creating value through design and help you and your client to work together as a team to realise the maximum impact of your collaboration.


For full details of training dates for 2008 click here.


In House Training
After successfully running modules in Sctland, the DBA is bringing two workshops to London which are aimed at Directors, Partners senior management. Whilst you may think that you have everything under control, you can always pick up some extra pieces of useful knowledge which can only serve to better your business. Full details and booking form are here. Use this opportunity as a chance to refresh your skills, kickstart some change and maybe even learn a great deal!

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


Regional Training
The DBA has scheduled regional training workshops for 2008. Click here for more details.

Design Does It - client training

For information on DBA training courses for public sector clients click here.

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.

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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