Creative Training and Masterclasses for Teams
Team development, team building and effective team communications have never been more critical than now. Our training for creative teams delivers bespoke programmes that meet your business’s specific requirements, delivered by our award-winning course leaders.
Our creative team training covers many creative skillsets, as well as creative mindset and creative leadership, making it easy for you to upskill your teams to a consistently high standard, and provide them with motivation and resilience. We can adapt our existing courses from the off-the-shelf programme for individuals to suit your team’s bespoke needs and can also create custom, longer-term learning and development programmes in partnership with your team or wider organisation.
How we deliver our creative team training
Our training for teams can be delivered either online as digital workshops, physically at our D&AD Studios in Shoreditch, London, or at your location of choice. We adhere to the latest government advice on Covid-19 to ensure these are delivered safely and responsibly.
How we work
1. We first run a diagnostic workshop to understand your team’s training needs
2. We then design a bespoke team training programme to address your needs
3. We agree a delivery format / location and a time of your choosing
4. We deliver the team training
5. We provide you with takeaways and check-ins after the course, to embed the learning
How creative team training helps your business
Companies that take staff development seriously have a 37% higher productivity rate and enjoy 24% higher profit margins versus those that do not (Association Talent Development), with more empowered, skilled and adaptable teams, and a company culture that attracts and retains talent.
Companies that value creativity financially outperform their peers – 67% have above average organic revenue growth, because they are able to innovate and are able to translate that innovation into business value (Creativity’s Bottom Line by McKinsey 2018).
Companies with design at their heart are market leaders, with design-led thinking now a decisive advantage in countless industries. Companies singing the design gospel range from Apple to Comcast to Pinterest to Starbucks (Fast Company). And shares in design-led businesses have outperformed the FTSE-100 by more than 200% over a decade (Design Council).
Our creative training can (1) empower your team with new ways of working, (2) help attract, retain and develop great staff, (3) onboard teams with new vision or structural change, (4) help improve relationship management, (5) help address skill gaps, and (6) future-proof your business.
Creative team courses
Our creative team training is structured across three areas: Creative Skills, Creative Mindset and Creative Leadership.
Here are some examples of creative team training we’ve delivered for other businesses, available for your team and delivered on or offline. For the full list, download the PDF.
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D&AD Inner Critic Combat: The Course Finder Game
At some point in our careers we all hear that inner critic telling us we're just not good enough. Whether it's a creative skill that we can't seem to master, moving out of our comfort zone into leadership, or feeling over our head in digital, there are a ton of reasons the inner critic might come out. D&AD Masterclasses can help your creative team overcome those weak spots and take their creative work to the next level. But which course is for them? The D&AD Inner Critic Combat game will help them find out.
Team Credits
Let your team pick and choose the learning programme that's right for them with our mix and match credit package. This option combines the ease of a one-off payment, with the freedom to pick, choose, and book places on our individual courses that are right for each member of your team.
Accessible across our individual course programme, you can book up to 4 people from your team on any one date (subject to availability).
Find out more by contacting one of the team on masterclasses@dandad.org.
Our course leaders
Kit Altin
Chief Strategy Officer at The Gate London
Alex Lampe
Creative Director at Wiedemann Lampe
Alexandra Taylor
Freelance Art Director & Consultant at Mrs.McGuinty Ltd.
Christopher Lee Ball
Executive Creative Director at
Dave King
Design Director at StudioLR
Graham Smith
Partner at Grand Scheme Media
Iain Aitchison
Director at Glasgow School of Art / Graft Design and Innovation Management
Jane Steel
Group Strategy Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie
Jim Sutherland
Founder at Studio Sutherl&
Jo Carr
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Hope&Glory
chris bamford
Creative Director - PR at BBH
Mark Bonner
Strategic Brand Creativity at /B.randed
michael johnson
director at johnson banks
Nadya Powell
Co-founder at Utopia
Nick Eagleton
The Playful Saboteur at Saboteur
Patrick Collister
Creative Director at Creative Matters
Rosie Arnold
Advertising Consultant at
Sonia Beldom
Author at Soniasmum
Susie Galbraith
BLUEdOOR
Tom Evans
Founder at BleepBleeps
Uri Baruchin
Founder at UBCS
Vikki Ross
Independent Copywriter at Vikki Ross Writes
Will Awdry
Strategic Creative Director at Sutton Young
Arif Haq
Director of Brand Learning at TwentyFirstCenturyBrand
Sophie Robinson
Company Director at so&so pictures
Our clients
Client testimonials
Great balance of personal experience and footage from the masters of advertising. Thoroughly looking forward to applying more tangible craft to what I do.
Very enjoyable, learnt a lot, engaging and thought provoking, will use techniques in my day to day role.
Effective crash course in idea generation, lots of passion, which was infectious, great stuff all round.
Brilliant course! Informative, challenging and confidence boosting.
Speak to our team
For more information on what we can provide, please get in touch with one of our team below. They will work with you to identify your specific needs.
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Joshua Edwards
Professional Development Executive
joshua.edwards@dandad.org
+44 (0) 773 876 1778
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