We offer both on-site and virtual versions of our training programs, providing flexible delivery formats to meet your needs:
Virtual training programs allow your staff to develop their skills from wherever they’re working. We conduct the training live and exclusively for your team so we can customize the content to your needs. Each virtual training program is highly interactive and includes group or individual exercises, homework assignments for multi-part programs, and real-time access to our facilitators throughout the engagement.
On-site workshops offer practical and intensive training to help restore initiative and improve productivity, with the added benefit that your team members will be happier and more engaged at work. We hold these sessions at your location. Workshops are offered in half-day, full-day, and multi-part sessions, depending on the topic and your organization’s unique training goals.
We offer comprehensive and proven development programs designed to help your team members become better leaders, communicators and critical thinkers.
Choose a professional development program series from the list below or let us customize a learning program that meets your company’s specific professional development goals.
Management & Leadership Development Series
Client Management & Communication Series
Strategic & Creative Thinking Series
Whether your employees are working side by side, working remotely or a mix of both, leading a team today requires a special set of managerial skills. This management training program is designed for anyone new to supervising others or who leads a team that now includes remote-based workers.
The multi-session structure of this intensive management training program offers managers an opportunity to practice new skills and techniques between sessions, and then regroup to debrief on their individual experiences.
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Designed for managers who have completed the Leading Teams From Anywhere 1.0 base program or who are several years into their managerial experience, this advanced workshop builds on the concepts and techniques introduced in the original training series. It’s both a refresher — reinforcing key management concepts — and a deeper dive into several topics introduced in the first sessions. In addition, the program includes the latest techniques on leading remote/hybrid teams and managing up.
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Being the team leader can be a very lonely experience. Couple that with today’s dispersed workplace, and there are even fewer opportunities for managers to share common challenges and solutions to everyday leadership issues.
That’s where executive 1:1 and group coaching come in: they activate learning gained in our leadership training programs, while creating an exploratory space to discuss and reflect on real-time issues your team leaders face.
A comprehensive development program that includes coaching provides your staff with valuable guidance and new approaches to solving managerial issues, which can save your organization precious time and resources.
Contact us to explore how we can help your team leaders reach their full potential through executive 1:1 or group coaching.
Account managers must lead their clients, not merely service them. This workshop helps client relationship managers and other client-facing specialists spend their time more effectively and productively as account leaders, and can be tailored for junior staff or for more seasoned client relationship managers.
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Note: This workshop is specifically designed for ad agencies
Too often, agency people are brilliant in their disciplines, but less familiar with the financial realities of the business. But it’s how client work is managed that determines whether an account will yield its anticipated profit, no matter what the compensation agreement says.
In this workshop, client relationship managers and others who work with client budgets will learn how an agency makes and loses money, how to protect the agency’s financial interests with clients, and how to increase profits.
Participants will learn how to work with creative and production teams to monitor changes in projects and keep budgets and estimates up-to-date. They’ll understand why money write-offs are so much more damaging than time write-offs, and why both should be avoided.
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90-minute live virtual session facilitated via Zoom
Even if you’re a good presenter in person, giving a virtual presentation brings its own set of challenges. You have to contend with a distracted — or worse, multitasking — audience, technical glitches, potentially awkward handoffs to co-presenters or, if working from home, having your cat jump into frame while you’re presenting.
In this workshop participants get a chance to try out what they’re learning in front of the group, with live feedback, in a supportive environment. At the end of the program, participants have learned specific techniques to make their virtual presentations easier to prepare and more compelling. They’ve developed a style that translates well on video, so they are more credible and highly persuasive.
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The program is presented as a four-part interactive workshop so that participants can apply the techniques they’re learning by preparing several mini presentations between sessions. We recommend that no more than ten people participate in each session, so that everyone has a chance to practice and get feedback from both the facilitator as well as their colleagues.
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Today’s hybrid work environment requires your team members to be skilled at giving presentations no matter whether they are delivered virtually or in person. Yet each delivery method requires slightly different skills and abilities. The hybrid version of our Delivering Great Presentations program teaches participants to be adept at nailing their presentations no matter whether they are delivered virtually or in person.
All the topics covered in the virtual version of this workshop are incorporated here, plus tips and techniques for giving presentations in person. The last session of the workshop is spent onsite at the client location so everyone can practice in front of a live audience.
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So much of today’s professional communication occurs via email, text messages, presentation decks, Slack etc. Almost every one of these messages is intended — directly or indirectly — to persuade someone to take some sort of action. The style of our writing nudges readers toward or away from that goal, no matter how good the content. And, if the content is poorly written, it can negatively impact relationships as well as the reputation of your brand.
Effective writing doesn’t come naturally to everyone. But everyone can follow simple guidelines to make their writing more persuasive. In this workshop, participants will practice what they’re learning with short writing exercises during and in between sessions.
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The Writing Better Briefs workshop teaches participants the importance of well-written creative briefs through case study examples and hands-on learning. It defines a process for how to think strategically about the client’s marketing and communication objectives and to translate the strategy into briefs that your creative team will actually find useful.
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Today’s disruptive and ever-evolving marketing environment requires that everyone be a more creative thinker and problem solver. Developing creative thinking skills is not just for members of the creative team; anyone can learn to make their brain more fluent in producing new ideas and solving client business problems.
This workshop introduces participants to techniques — based on the latest research in brain science — for developing and evaluating all kinds of ideas, for any team, in groups or individually. Participants learn how to reframe problems to challenge assumptions and reveal new possibilities; how to evaluate new ideas to see which are most likely to be productive; and how to collaborate more effectively with colleagues in order to develop the best ideas.
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