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Why your attitude to clients might be damaging your presentations
Could your attitude to clients be damaging your presentations? DBA Expert Shan Preddy shares her views and explores why.
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Could your attitude to clients be damaging your presentations? DBA Expert Shan Preddy shares her views and explores why.
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Shout about it: expand your reach and win more new business
To make the most of an award win, these ten tips will help you to expand your audiences and ultimately win more new business.
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2022 What Clients Think | DBA Webinar Recording
In this eye-opening hour, Jonathan Kirk, author of the report and DBA Expert, explores how the client world has changed, examining the challenges and pressures, and digging beyond the statistics to reveal what you need to know in order to win new work and strengthen your relationships.
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Ukraine conflict | Resources for businesses
Keep on top of how the conflict in Ukraine is impacting business and how we can support the unfolding humanitarian crisis with these resources.
Business skills, Financial, HR, International trade, Legal, Maximise membership, New business & client relations, Strategy development
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Struggling to drive change in your business? Here’s how DBA Member EDIT achieved it.
DBA Member agency EDIT was approaching its 5th anniversary when its founders got in touch with the DBA for advice on a challenge many design businesses encounter. What followed transformed their agency and has impacted on the founders’ own lives.
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Designing today for tomorrow | DBA webinar
Catch up on this rallying hour with Tom Lloyd as we explore how design can lead the way in solving the problems the world is facing from climate to culture.
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Indirect Discrimination in the Workplace
How do you best avoid discriminating against somebody? Our HR partner, Croner has this advice.
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The Four-Day Week
Leading expert on the four-day week revolution, Dr Alex Soojung-Kim Pang shares valuable insights into how working less can revolutionise the way your company gets things done.
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Enabling UK businesses in Saudi Arabia: DIT virtual workshop
The Department for International Trade (DIT) has partnered with Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Investment (MISA) to deliver a Virtual Workshop...
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Challenging Assumptions
Author of the What Clients Think Report, Jonathan Kirk challenges five typical agency claims that trip easily off the tongue.