Agencies & Consultancies

Training for agencies at all skill levels

  • Account management
  • New business
  • Confidence
  • Productivity
  • Writing
  • Motivating teams

In-House Comms

Training for in-house communications professionals

  • Best practice
  • Demonstrating value
  • Brand recognition
  • Confidence & Credibility
  • Media training

Kickstart Your PR!

Two-day intensive public relations workshop

  • Capturing media attention
  • Brand recognition
  • Engaging content
  • Supporting sales and marketing

Big Fish Balance

Mental health and wellness for communications professionals

  • Beating Burnout
  • mindfulness
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Mental Health in the Workplace

Kickstart Your PR!

Two-day intensive public relations workshop

  • Capturing media attention
  • Brand recognition
  • Engaging content
  • Supporting sales and marketing

Becoming a Manager

Manage your team effectively

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Training Overview

Start as you mean to go on by incorporating great management techniques into your daily life.

As a relatively new manager, or someone about to be promoted, it is essential to build a solid foundation of management skills that will deliver benefits from day one rather than make costly mistakes. Knowing that you can depend on yourself to do the right thing will give you the confidence to manage your team effectively and help your staff to develop.

How will I benefit?

You'll understand what it takes to be a good manager and be able to apply it to everything you do.

The people around you will feel able to depend on you and will be clear on what they need to do. You will be confident that you'll be able to delegate work that gets done to the right standards and that you know what to say and do if expectations - or deadlines - are not met.

People management can be experienced as stressful or rewarding: this course will give you the underlying principles to steer clear from headaches and allow you to experience the satisfaction of managing people in ways that help you get results whilst retaining your personality and motivating the team around you.

What will I learn?

Manage

How to manage people in a way that suits you and them

Motivate

Motivating and inspiring your team

Delegate

How to delegate effectively so that work gets done

Feedback

Delivering feedback that gets results

Change

Make good work better and change unwanted behaviour

High Performance

Managing for high performance

Time Management

Fitting management tasks into a busy agency day

Tough Conversations

Handling difficult situations and conversations

Who should attend?

This course is for existing managers who've never had management training, newly promoted managers and people preparing for line-management responsibility.

What else do I need to know?

This is a day built around your specific needs. We understand what it's like to work in a busy team, balancing the twin demands of getting results whilst keeping your team productive and motivated. The course is designed to incorporate your issues in a small group format which will allow you to discuss ways to manage which are appropriate for your style and your environment so that you can apply them straight away.

How Big Fish Training Works

Got a team to train? Most courses are delivered direct either in person or via live video for groups of 6 - 12 people. These sessions are tailored to your specific needs. You just need to tell us what they are! Get in touch now for a friendly chat about what you need to achieve.

Want a course just for you? We run special sessions throughout the year and have a growing number of online courses. If you can't find what you need on the site, get in touch now and we can help.

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What delegates say about Becoming a Manager for In-House Comms Professionals:

Very useful. I've experienced some difficult management situations in recent months and the tipswill really help in future.

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What did you enjoy about the course? Sandra's engaging presentation style and joining together of people from different departments to hash out problems.

Very natural conversations. Discussed real challenges.

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Collaborative, interesting and engaging teacher.

It was useful and enlightening. It's great to get in a room with people a similar level and discuss experiences and viewpoints with each other.

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This session was very useful and made you think about how to change and improve.

It was laid back and a small group, meaning I felt my voice was heard more.

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Very useful, thought provoking, good to focus, address and action quickly on certain points.

Sounds good! How do I book?

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