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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