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APG TRAINING

Find your skill level in the descriptions below and click through to see the list of corresponding skills, training courses and workshops

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Basic skills you need to be any sort of planner or strategist, regardless of discipline or place of work.

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Advanced set of skills for more senior and experienced strategists, combined with emerging and specialist skills.

Essential Planning Skills
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Top skills for strategists with management or high level business responsibilities.

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How Training Works

The aim is to offer training in as many of these important skills as we can, with a combination of Training Courses and a new training format of 'Taster Workshops’.

 

So we’ve mapped these skills against what is required at different levels off experience and suggested the Training Courses and Workshops that can deliver against those requirements.

 

How it works:

  1. You define your level of experience (Core, Extended or Leadership)

  2. You look at the skills required for your level of experience (see below)

  3. You can then see what we are offering to teach and enhance skills at that level

 

(In addition we suggest classic and emerging skills at each level: The things you absolutely have to be able to do vs the skills you might need as your role extends or you take on different kinds of work).

 

As always we will give plenty of advance notice on courses and workshops so that you get the chance to book yourself on in good time.

Different Skills Levels

Core Skills

 

Classic Skills

  • Desk research

  • Excel & data

  • Briefs & briefing

  • Principles of strategic thinking

  • Qual & quant research (using & analysing)

  • Creativity & creative people

  • Working in teams & managing up

  • Mentoring & career development

  • Effectiveness

  • Insights

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New & Emerging Skills

  • Online research & tools

  • Familiarity with broad range of strategic disciplines  (content, digital, channel, design etc.)

  • Behavioural research including site journeys and UX

  • Understanding and using specialisms (psychology, neuroscience, semiotics etc..

Extended Skills

 

Classic Skills

  • Effectiveness embedded in thinking

  • Advanced data analysis

  • Develop & present strategic thinking

  • Define strategic & creative ideas

  • Client, internal & creative relationships

  • Understand & critique quantitative (testing) approaches

  • Enhance, apply and understand: client business, finance & corporate strategy

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Emerging/Specialist Skills

  • Finding Insights

  • Briefing for different disciplines

  • Strategy for newer disciplines & new business

  • Understanding and developing leadership styles

Leadership Skills

 

Classic Skills

  • Effectiveness & strategic case studies

  • Apply business / corporate / economic understanding

  • Thought/opinion pieces – speak at events

  • Conceive and give training

  • Strategic vision & leadership: Accounts and agency

  • Personal / department leadership

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Leading Edge Skills

  • Leading multi-disciplinary teams

Testimonials

“Consistent in providing training and opportunities to learn throughout. I've greatly valued its contribution."

 

“In the absence of any management, training or development in the planning team, it's been a huge help to proactively learn and refresh knowledge.”

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