To request further information on any of the training courses listed below, please click the individual course titles.

Team Days for Magazines or Websites Training Courses

Vital and timely issues are explored and resolved during a Team Day. This is a rare chance to gather your whole team together and examine your overriding concerns, with objective input and expert facilitation from an ETC training consultant.

Improving Teamwork Training (1 day course)

The Improving Teamwork course is ideal for magazine teams who want to refresh the way they work together to become more effective and creative.

Journalists are often so busy getting a publication out that they don't have time to focus on how well they are working together. This teamwork training session gives them a chance to analyse their behaviour and identify areas for change.

Course content:

• Understanding how effective publication teams work
• Setting clear objectives
• Creating an environment for open communication, cooperation and trust
• Establishing sound working and decision making procedures
• Diagnosing problems
• Identifying solutions

Developing the Product Training (1 day course)

The Developing the Product course is ideal for magazine teams or website teams who want to take a fresh look at their publication to identify ways to keep it moving ahead.

All teams can benefit from periodically taking a fresh look at their publication. Getting a new focus on readers and what they want from a title is motivational and results in concrete plans for change.

Course content:

• How do other magazines or websites address their readers?
• What do our readers want from us?
• What else can we deliver to our readers?
• How can we deliver it?
• What needs changing?
• How can we change?

Improving Organisation Training (1 day course)

The Improving Organisation course is ideal for teams of journalists who want to look at the way they organise themselves.

A combination of history and personality can mean that magazine or website teams fall into bad habits that make producing a publication more difficult than it should be. This course session gives teams the opportunity to look at the way they get their publications out and to identify areas that would benefit from change.

Course content:

• How well is the team organised?
• Are we doing things in the right order?
• Who is waiting? What is going late?
• How can we give art and design more time?
• Can we create contingency plans?