This comprehensive training is for individuals looking to enhance their project management skills beyond the fundamental level. It encompasses the techniques crucial to leading and attaining project success.

While project management methodologies, processes, and tools can be easily explained, executing a project can be challenging due to the human element involved.

To become a high-performing Project Manager, you must master leading and managing individuals and the various issues that may arise.

Adopting a proactive approach to project management from the outset can significantly reduce the risks and problems that commonly occur later in the project.

Our Advanced Project Management training course provides all the necessary tools to initiate and sustain a project for long-term success.

What you’ll take away:

• An in-depth understanding of how to build your teams’ and clients’ roles and responsibilities on a project.
• Advanced scoping techniques that significantly reduce scope creep.
• Next-level project communications to move your team beyond the standard reporting and provide high-value reporting that has an impact.
• An Introduction to the most common AI tools and the steps and approaches to create your project management assistant.
• Maximise the value from mistakes made through an ‘always on’ improvement and project wash-up approach that transforms problems into opportunities.
• How to shift from being reactive to proactive to stay ahead of project challenges.

Who should attend:

• Senior Project Managers and Project Leads.
• Account handlers responsible for project planning and delivery.
• Project Managers with a minimum of 2 years’ experience looking to take a step up.

Workshop agenda:

• What is advanced Project Management, and what is a high-performing Project Manager?
• Developing roles and responsibilities for all project and team shapes.
• Moving beyond the standard approach to scoping a project.
• Advanced project communications to capture problems early.
• Creating your AI Assistant to be more productive and efficient as a PM.
• Listen and learn: how to turn problems into opportunities and create a continuous learning approach to your projects.

Next open workshop/s, run online:

Dates:     9th July / 5th November 2026

Length:  Full Day 9.30 – 4.30pm

Trainer:

Ben Willmott, Head of Delivery, Trainer & Mentor.

What you’ll take away:

• How to effectively manage each stage of the project lifecycle.
• Running a project kick off and setting your project up for success.
• Project planning and assigning roles & responsibilities.
• Keeping your project on track with detailed timelines.
• Identifying and managing risk on your project.
• Project scoping and writing a statement of work.
• Wrapping up and running a project evaluation.

Who should attend:

• Account handlers who are also responsible for project planning and delivery
• Project Managers with less than 2 years experience
• Resource Managers working alongside project managers
• Creative Services managers responsible for project planning and delivery
• Producers who are involved in project planning as well as delivery

Workshop agenda:

• Introduction to training.
• The project lifecycle & initiation stage. 
• Roles & responsibilities.
• SWOT analysis.
• The project plan.
• Risk management.
• Scope of work.
• Project wash up.

Next open workshop/s run online:

Date:       26th Feb, 11th June, 15th October.

Length:  Full Day 9.30 – 4.30 pm

Trainer:

Ben Willmott, Head of Delivery, Trainer & Mentor.

In this workshop, you’ll develop a solid understanding of the financial principles that make an agency profitable. From building an agency annual budget, to forecast planning, income recognition and project commercials – we’ve got it covered.

We use examples and scenarios throughout the workshop that make the content engaging, relevant and relatable.

What you’ll take away:

• You’ll understand an agency annual budget and how to build one.
• You’ll understand income recognition: what it is and why we use it
• You’ll have a good working knowledge of agency forecasting planning
• You’ll understand the different types of project commercials and their pros and cons
• You’ll learn how to join the dots and align finance planning to project and resource planning

Who should attend:

• Client Services, all levels from AE to BD
• Project Managers
• Resource Managers
• Operations & Finance 

Workshop agenda:

• Finance – the big picture.
• Understanding income recognition.
• Agency pipeline & forecast planning.
• Project commercials, the pros, cons and watch outs.

Next open workshop/s run online:

Date:       25th February 2026

Length:  Half Day 9.30 – 1pm

Trainers:

Jo Petroccia, Resource Management Consultant, Trainer and Mentor.

Sarah Vick, Chair / Non Executive Director for creative and digital businesses.

From firefighting to forward planning.

Resource management is often misunderstood — undervalued, overlooked, and too often blamed when things go wrong. But when it’s done strategically, it’s one of the most powerful functions in your business — improving delivery, profitability, and team wellbeing.

This workshop is for Resource Managers who want to elevate their role from scheduling and coordination to strategic influence. You’ll explore what great resource management looks like in practice — how to plan ahead, use finance forecasting to make smarter decisions, and collaborate across the business with confidence.

Through real-life case studies, discussion, and problem-solving exercises, you’ll build the skills, commercial awareness, and confidence to make resource management a strategic strength, not a scapegoat.

What you’ll take away:

• A clear understanding of resource management and the positive contribution it makes to your business.
• How to resource plan 3-6 months ahead and align recruitment and staff development planning.
• The skills and confidence to manage conflicting resource requests and guide the decision-making process on priorities.
• Tools and top tips to help you plan, evaluate and monitor resources in your business leading to continuous improvements.

Who should attend:

• Resource managers who want to raise the profile of resource management — turning it from a scheduling task into a valued, strategic part of how the business runs.
• Operations directors who oversee resource management and want to strengthen its impact on delivery, profitability, and team development and performance.
• HR & recruitment managers wanting better staff alignment, retention, and development planning.
• Project managers who want to deliver more effectively through structured, proactive resource planning.

Workshop agenda:

• Redefining resource management.
• Value added resource management.
• Common problems and how to deal with them.
• Tools of the trade.

Next open workshop/s, run online:

19th May, 13th Oct 2026

Length:  9.15 – 1pm online

Trainer:

Jo Petroccia, Resource Management Consultant, Trainer and Mentor.

The intensive half-day workshop that helps move beyond account planning and uncover techniques to create more strategic level conversations with clients and open a continuous growth cycle.

This hands-on session gives attendees practical tools to take away to drive proactive client growth.

What you’ll take away:

• Techniques to move from account “manager” to a trusted advisor and strategic partner
• How to assess where your client relationship is currently
• An overview of useful tools for moving you up the relationship value chain
• A model for focusing your mind on your client’s end goal, strategies for getting there and tactics that support that goal.

Who should attend:

• Account Managers
• Senior Account Managers
• Account Directors

Why attend?:

• Ensuring your account plans are fit for purpose
• Assessing & measuring client relationships
• Developing an annual & multi-year view with your clients

Trainer:

Polly Lygoe, Agency Director & Client Services Trainer