In-house Training

Expert project management skills

Successful project management is essential in the design industry. It helps to give structure to high-pressure environments, ensures your team are working to their optimum capacity, and makes sure every hour is well spent. Design industry expert Jan Casey will share practical guidance to help you become a skilled project manager in this half-day workshop.

Core business skills

Managing your time

Not enough hours in the day? Feeling stressed out and overwhelmed? When you’re juggling multiple projects and billing time to clients, every minute in the office counts. Creative industry expert Jenny McConnell will help you regain control of your time and give you the tools to replace ‘busy-ness’ with productivity.

Core business skills

What clients want

Crack the code and learn how to see design from the client’s perspective. At this half-day workshop with industry expert Jan Casey, you’ll discover what clients really expect from a design consultancy when it comes to meetings, relationships and general working practices.

Client relationships

Managing design agencies and teams

Learn to become the driving force in your agency relationships at this interactive full day workshop, where design management expert Jan Casey will show you how to build on the theory and your on-the-job experience. You’ll be able to get exactly what you need from your agencies every time.

Working with design agencies

From management to leadership

Successfully stepping into a leadership role requires an advanced level of personal awareness and direction. Everyone has their own style of leadership, but how can you ensure you're on the right track to meet all the expectations? Propel your career forward by developing your leadership qualities and join industry leader and DBA Expert Heli Heartland for this high-impact half-day workshop.

People management and leadership

Making the most of what you own

Every company in the UK has under-utilised intellectual assets sitting in various places in their businesses, not to mention the assets and intellectual property they might be giving away for free. And the design industry is no exception. This half-day workshop with Erica Wolfe-Murray, DBA Expert and Founder of Lola Media, will take you deeper into IP and making the most of what you own.

IP and understanding the law

Transform and grow your creative business

Business growth is inextricably linked to change. Stand still for too long, and the activities that were working for you in the past may have moved on. Attend this half-day workshop with DBA Expert and brand experience specialist Ralph Ardill to understand how to successfully transform and grow your business.

Business development and new business

Managing projects efficiently

How can you make sure you meet all your deadlines, stay within budget and, most importantly, keep clients happy? The ability to manage a variety of different projects is key in the design industry. Join design industry expert Lorna Dallas-Conte to learn how to prioritise conflicting demands using a 5-step framework for effective project management.

Core business skills

Influencing at board level

To successfully position your agency’s design capabilities to clients in the ‘C-suite’ you need to be able to articulate the value of design by using language that the boardroom will understand and respect. At this half-day workshop, business transformation and DBA expert Ralph Ardill will share his extensive experience in this area, to raise your confidence and ability to hold authoritative and impactful conversations at board level.

Client relationships

Effective communication: the fundamentals

Whether you’re talking to colleagues, team members, your boss or a client, you need to be able to get your point of view across confidently, and get the outcomes you need to work effectively. Understand how to instinctively use the right approach in different settings and gain renewed confidence in your communication skills with specialist Wendy Smith.

Communications skills

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Main Content

Expert project management skills

Core business skills

Managing your time

Core business skills

What clients want

Client relationships

Managing design agencies and teams

Working with design agencies

From management to leadership

People management and leadership

Making the most of what you own

IP and understanding the law

Transform and grow your creative business

Business development and new business

Managing projects efficiently

Core business skills

Influencing at board level

Client relationships

Effective communication: the fundamentals

Communications skills