Training is not just for graphic design or production staff, all team members can benefit from learning how to visually craft their solution.

24 Hour Company UK provides instructional seminars and workshops designed to give your team a decisive edge in winning bids. We work with your team in a group or one-on-one environment to improve graphics and conceptualisation as well as desktop publishing skill sets.

Some public training sessions are available, please see news section on the Home page for upcoming workshops. Private workshops are conducted on a half-day, one-day or two-day basis.

Option 1: One-on-one Training
First, we will review your current needs, processes, and goals. Then we share best practices, tips, tricks, and secrets that will get you your desired results. Next, we will apply what you learned to real-world business graphic situations (such as proposal development or presentation design) so that if you have any questions, you can get the answers immediately. We will tailor the training to meet your needs. If you identify a specific step or challenge as a hurdle, we will focus on that.

Option 2: Group Training
This class uses real-world challenges to educate you and your colleagues to conceptualise clear, communicative, compelling graphics and desktop publishing layouts. First, we will review your company’s current needs, processes, and goals. We will tailor the training to share best practices, tips, tricks, and secrets that solve you and your group’s challenges and achieve the company’s goals.

Where and When?
Private training is conducted at your facility and schedules are arranged to fit your needs. Conducting training at your facility ensures that real-world, day-to-day challenges are in the same building and can be seen, reviewed, and solved.

Skills Learned– Graphics/Conceptualisation Training
Skills learned will vary from session to session based upon the needs of those requesting training.
Skills learned include but are not limited to the following:

• Increase your sales or win rate by 43% (based upon independent research on visual communication)
• Make any complex idea easy to understand and increase audience retention rates
• Visualise and better communicate your solutions
• Make professional graphics that are clear, communicative, and compelling
• Know what imagery, colours, fonts, and style to use (and why)
• Master Quality Control (stop making errors that cost you money, time, and credibility)
• Know where to go to find the right imagery at the right price
• Get graphics right the first time
• Accurately schedule support
• Estimate level of effort and staffing needs
• Learn how proposals, presentations, marketing slicks, brochures, and any other business materials write themselves with effective visualisation

Skills Learned– Desktop Publishing Training
Skills learned will vary from session to session based upon the needs of those requesting training.
Skills learned include but are not limited to the following:

• Learn basic and advanced usage of MS Word (all participants tested before training to judge level needed)
• Develop user-friendly templates for proposals and other daily business documents
• Integrate icons, call out boxes, and other graphical elements seamlessly into your documents
• Learn production basics and advanced tips and tricks for making your document print professionally
• Know what imagery, colours, fonts, and style to use (and why)
• Master Quality Control (stop making errors that cost you money, time, and credibility)
• Accurately schedule support and budget for printing needs
• Estimate level of effort and staffing needs
• Learn how proposals, presentations, marketing slicks, brochures, and any other business materials are more effective when designed to communicate

Every trainee receives a copy of the successful business graphics guide, Do-It-Yourself Billion Dollar Business Graphics: 3 Fast and Easy Steps to Turn Your Text and Ideas Into Graphics That Sell. This book reinforces the training, offers over 400 real-world graphic samples to inspire, and includes a Virtual CD with templates and business graphics to get you or your team started. It is a valuable how-to guide for your business. You will keep it right next to your computer for every project.

Bespoke training combining both graphics/conceptualisation and desktop publishing available – just ask!