Upcoming Training Courses

This is a brand new course about modern creative strategy and how to increase the influence of strategy in modern agencies. It’s for senior strategists (Strategy Director and above). It aims to show them how to increase their sphere of influence for their brands, their agencies and themselves.

This extended training session is for young planners and strategists. It will build your expertise in answering briefs by making the most of the incredible creative and strategic stimulation that AI brings to the task.

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The session will teach you which AI tools to use, how to get the best out of them and how to apply them to create fast, focused, strategic and creatively brilliant answers to briefs. It’s a hands-on session, so come ready to engage your brain and work through briefs in real time.

Tutors are Christina Lemieux, Executive Strategy Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, PG One and Ruairi Curran, Executive Strategy Director at Gravity Road.

This course is ideally suited for Planners and Strategists with 2 years+ of experience in the industry. It is designed for Strategists from a variety of disciplines – be it brand planning, digital planning, channel planning, engagement planning...

The APG A-Z is a series of 26 short and inspiring videos that are designed to give you all the basics for a proper understanding of the practice of planning and strategy. Whether you’re just starting out in an agency - be it in advertising, media, social, design, whatever - and have planner or strategist in your title, or you work for a client or research company and have a professional interest in strategy, this course is for you to do in your own time.

This course fast-tracks the wider skills every planner needs as they manage the strategy process from client brief to developing and selling ideas. 

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It covers the essential skills of management, influence and personal impact that will help you take a lead in any discipline, and bring the team and the client with you.

Planning Fundamentals, and How to Apply Them is designed by Charlie Snow and Sarah Newman, to take you through the most important principles of planning and show you how to apply them.