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DBA Core Professional Development workshops
1) The fundamentals
These
workshops are essential 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 the early stages
of employment in design or are more experienced staff seeking
an invaluable refresher course.
2) Further skills
These
workshops cover a broad range of professional rankings in design. They enable junior staff to stretch their knowledge to middle level and more experienced staff to further consolidate their knowledge - from designers, project and account
managers to strategists, administrators, marketing
managers and directors.
3) Special instruction
We’ve assembled a series of key learning components into workshops to
help build your confidence and ability.
4) Presentation
skills | Improvers and Presentation skills | Advanced
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.
In-house workshops
Can't make the above listed core Professional Development workshops? Need professional development for a number of your staff? Looking to minimise time out of the office?
The DBA offers a range of in-house workshop 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
Continuous Professional Development
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 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
To be considered as a speaker for any DBA Professional Practice workshops or event, please email a brief summary of your experience and speaking credentials to sally@dba.org.uk
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