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Professional Practice workshops for you and your team

Professional Development workshops cover the essential skills everyone working in design needs to master. They're taught by design industry experts and have been developed specifically for design agency staff. So we can guarentee you'll see the benefit for your staff and your business. Each workshop focuses on a key area of expertise needed within any design business.

The DBA has courses for all levels of skill, experience and job role, from Junior Designer to Account Manager to Managing Director, and everything in-between.




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"Highly enjoyable, relevant and educational. Provided confidence and knowledge in a digestible format. Would do one again and certainly recommend to colleagues."

Craig Heath, Creative Director, Fresh Lemon

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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