TRAINING
FOR AGENCIES
& MARKETERS.
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This class will provide participants with an overview of business development: pitching, negotiating, selling and positioning ideas.  Teams explore how to build trust with clients, set up and present ideas, as well as the art of growing current business through “tiny bets,” risk-taking, and putting innovative concepts at the center. 

Often, collaboration is challenging because the team is short on time, resources, and an empathetic working environment. In this class, we will explore proven methods to stimulate productivity and togetherness required to improve output.

According to many industry analysts, “data is the new oil.” Yet data can be elusive and hard to pin down. Or simply overwhelming. New data tools and technologies are promising consumer insights with previously unimaginable depth and certainty, and clients are demanding “data-driven” approaches to work. How do you talk about data in a way that separates the myths from the realities? We’ll show you how.

Meetings are often perceived as an inefficient part of the day. In this learning experience, we review ways to meet and co-construct a new way of getting together. We'll explore tech, group dynamics, level of engagement, and team decision making.

This learning experience offers strategies for finding clarity and navigating ambiguity at work. Whether it’s your own to do list, peers, bosses or executives requests, we’ll cover techniques for how to respond and manage requests during organizational change like a champ.

Courage, grace, empathy and simple communication strategies can help teams have authentic, growthful and mutually beneficial relationships . This class is part empathy building, part conversation navigation.

The goal of innovative companies is to create novel, functional, and seductive ideas. This group 3D product activity challenges teams to look past the designated functions of an object to new possibilities, tapping into the cultural trend of making to teach the skills of innovation.

Not all companies are software companies, but we can certainly learn from their methods. This is an overview of collaboration methods and optimized environments. Our discussion will focus on the benefits of "design in the open" and how to develop a daily practice