EXCELLENCE TRAINING : Excellence in Smart Thinking (Manchester)
We are delighted to let you know that we’ve updated our popular Excellence in Strategic Thinking, changing the title to EXCELLENCE IN SMART THINKING this reflects the need to both work quickly ( especially when pitching) and the vital importance of building strong term partnerships with clients by having better conversations about effectiveness and creative work. This new course also integrates smart ways to use AI platforms in strategy sprints.
The course is specifically designed for anyone who is looking to take more strategic leadership of their accounts. It recognises that account people are very busy and short of time and so need fast ways to get to the strategy and ways of having better and more strategic meetings with clients. This course is also good for strategist looking to hone their skills and learn new techniques.
THE COURSE WILL COVER
A framework for analysing the client brief.
Collaborative methods for working with teams and developing the thinking.
Creative thinking techniques and methods.
Smart use of AI platforms to both analyse and generate fresh angles
The session will be split 50/50 between case histories and breakouts to use methods.
The session will be packed with inspiring examples of effective creative work and will be highly interactive
DELEGATE LEVEL
The course is specifically designed for anyone who is looking to take more strategic leadership of their accounts. It recognises that account people are very busy and short of time and so need fast ways to get to the strategy and ways of having better and more strategic meetings with clients.
This course is also good for strategist looking to hone their skills and learn new techniques
Group size 12 delegates maximum
DATES AND TIMES
23rd May – 9am to 5pm
TRAINER
Julian Saunders is a strategist, trainer and writer who has had three careers. In advertising, he was Planning Director at Ogilvy, Head of Strategy at McCann-Erickson and CEO of red cell advertising, a WPP agency dedicated to challenger thinking. He took a sabbatical in 2003/4 to edit a textbook for The Account Planning Group on the impact of digital technology. ( “The Communications Challenge” APG 2004). Then he focussed on design thinking and the application of Behavioural psychology to behaviour change. He was Non-executive Planning Director of Good Technology (gt), ran The Big Thinkers program for UK government (COI) and joined an Innovation team at Google (The Zoo).
Date/Time
Thursday 23 May 2024 9:00 am - 5:00 pmLocation
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