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Public Workshops

Shipley Associates offers a comprehensive curriculum of public workshops that provides your proposal teams with the skills, tools, and hands-on training needed to improve your win rate. The links below provide detailed information about each workshop, scheduling, and online registration. If you would like to schedule any of these workshops in house, click here.


Winning Government Business

Writing Federal Proposals

This 2-day workshop teaches participants a proven process for developing winning proposals to key customers. Through a video based proposal evaluation and scoring simulation, they learn how to create proposal strategy and write proposal content that meets the customer's requirements and hot buttons. Details and Registration

Capturing Federal Business

This 2-day workshop teaches participants a proven capture planning process by using tools and methodologies to develop winning capture strategies and then implement those strategies through their capture and sales teams. Details and Registration

Managing Federal Proposals

We highly recommend that before taking this 2-day training, you complete our 2-day Writing Federal Proposals workshop. The two workshops are offered as a 4-day combo every month. In this workshop, participants learn to manage a proposal effort and a proposal team by leveraging the Shipley proposal development process and tools. Details and Registration

APMP Accreditation Coaching and Exam

This one-day training and facilitation of the APMP Foundation Level Exam provides coaching for business development professionals seeking Foundation Level accreditation through the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) organization. The Foundation Level Examination is facilitated and a pass/no pass grade given after the coaching. Details and Registration

Writing and Managing Federal Proposals

This 4-day combo workshop combines the learning objectives of two hallmark Shipley workshops to teach strategies for both writing and managing winning proposals to Government customers. Details and Registration

Pricing to Win

This 2-day workshop focuses on the development and exploitation of competitive intelligence and analysis of relative positions of competitors. PTW is not a cost-estimating workshop. Instead, PTW emphasizes: • Understanding the customer’s price/capability trade-offs • Assessing competitors’ likely competitive positions • Arriving at the seller’s solution, pricing, and capture strategy with the greatest win probability Details and Registration

Capturing Federal Business - Winning Executive Summaries

This 3-day combo workshop combines the 2-day Capturing Federal Business with the 1-day Winning Executive Summaries. While learning a proven capture process, participants will use tools and methodologies to develop winning strategies and then implement those strategies through their capture teams. An interactive, skill-building workshop that is often combined with other proposal development workshops. This workshop focuses on how to leverage your win strategy in the executive summary of every proposal. Details and Registration

Capturing Federal Business - Writing Federal Proposals

This combo workshop combines two 2-day workshops into a 4 day combo. The first two days will focus on learning a proven capture process, participants will use tools and methodologies to develop winning strategies and then implement those strategies through their capture teams. The last two days will focus on learning a proven process for developing winning proposals to Federal customers. Through a proposal evaluation simulation, they learn how to create strategy and write proposal content that meets the evaluation criteria Details and Registration

Capturing Federal Business - Pricing to Win

This workshop combines two 2-day workshops into a 4 day combo. In our 2-day Capturing Federal Business Workshop, while learning a proven capture process, participants will use tools and methodologies to develop winning strategies and then implement those strategies through their capture teams. The 2-day Pricing to Win focuses on the development and exploitation of competitive intelligence and analysis of relative positions of competitors. PTW is not a cost-estimating workshop. Instead, PTW emphasizes: • Understanding the customer’s price/capability trade-offs • Assessing competitors’ likely competitive positions • Arriving at the seller’s solution, pricing, and capture strategy with the greatest win probability Details and Registration

Capturing Federal Business - Positioning to Win

This workshop combines two 2-day workshops into a 4 day combo. In our 2-day Capturing Federal Business Workshop, while learning a proven capture process, participants will use tools and methodologies to develop winning strategies and then implement those strategies through their capture teams. The 2-day Positioning to Win workshop will teach you what, when and how to ask important questions and create a meaningful dialogue with your customers, so you can provide effective, customer-focused solutions. Details and Registration

Winning in the Cost Volume

This 2 day workshop teaches how a clear, responsive cost volume is critical to winning Government contracts. Learn how to enhance your win probability, improve profit margins, reduce financial risk, and minimize cost decrements during contract negotiations with properly developed cost volumes. Details and Registration

Pricing to Win/ Winning in the Cost Volume

This first part of this 4-day combination workshop: Pricing to Win focuses on the development and exploitation of competitive intelligence and analysis of relative positions of competitors. PTW is not a cost-estimating workshop. Instead, PTW emphasizes: • Understanding the customer’s price/capability trade-offs • Assessing competitors’ likely competitive positions • Arriving at the seller’s solution, pricing, and capture strategy with the greatest win probability The 2-day Winning in the Cost Volume teaches that a clear, responsive cost volume is critical to winning Government contracts. Learn how to enhance your win probability, improve profit margins, reduce financial risk, and minimize cost decrements during contract negotiations with properly developed cost volumes. Details and Registration

Billion Dollar Proposal Graphics

Billion Dollar Proposal Graphics is a powerful 1-day training workshop that teaches participants how to design, develop, and implement clear, communicative, and compelling graphics into their business documents, including proposals, presentations, and sales/marketing campaigns. Using a proven, award-winning process, participants learn best practices, tools, and techniques that turn complex ideas and text into easy-to-understand graphics. The training provides best practices, tips, tricks, and secrets for developing graphics that successfully sell your company's message and solution. Training is conducted by Mike Parkinson, principal at 24 Hour Company (www.24hrco.com) "the premiere proposal graphics firm" and author of Do-It-Yourself Billion Dollar Graphics (http://www.billiondollargraphics.com/businessgraphicsbook.html). Details and Registration

Writing and Managing Federal Proposals - Winning Executive Summaries

This 5-day workshop combines the learning objectives of three hallmark Shipley workshops to teach strategies for both writing and managing winning proposals to Government customers. It also adds the element of effective executive summary development to the core Writing and Managing Federal Proposals workshop and focuses on how to leverage your win strategy in the executive summary of every proposal. Details and Registration

Winning Executive Summaries

A 1-day interactive, skill-building workshop that is often combined with other proposal development workshops. This workshop focuses on how to leverage your win strategy in the executive summary of every proposal. Details and Registration

Winning Executive Summaries and Business Development Bootcamp

This 4 day combo workshop combines 1-day Winning Executive Summaries and our 3 day Business Development Bootcamp. Through interactive instruction, exercises, and coaching, you will be introduced to the following four topics that are critical to today's Proposal and Business professional. Day 1 - Winning Executive Summaries; Day 2 - Winning with Color Team Reviews; Day 3 - Winning with Past Performance; Day 4 - Winning with Task Orders Details and Registration

Business Development Boot Camp Series

Through interactive instruction, exercises, and coaching, this 3-day workshop will introduce you to the following three topics that are critical to today's Proposal and Business professional. Day 1 - Winning with Color Team ReviewsDay 2 - Winning with Past Performance Day 3 - Winning with Task Orders Details and Registration

Positioning to Win: Selling to the Government

This 2-day workshop will teach you what, when and how to ask important questions and create a meaningful dialogue with your customers, so you can provide effective, customer-focused solutions. Details and Registration

Winning with Past Performance: An Introduction

This is on-day workshop is Day 2 of the Business Development Boot Camp series. Details and Registration

Winning with Color Team Reviews: An Introduction

This 1 day workshop is day one of the Business Development Bootcamp Series. It introduces workshop participants to nine proven "color team reviews" that have been proven to help Offerors increase their "win probability" (Pwin) of their must-win Federal proposals. Details and Registration

Winning With Task Orders: An Introduction

This one-day workshop is day 3 of the Business Development Boot Camp series event. You will receive coaching on relevant topics that while outside of Shipleys core curriculum, are relevant to today's proposal professionals. Details and Registration

Winning Sales Proposals

This workshop focuses on short turn-around proposals in either a business-to-business or a task order response environment. The workshop builds on any sales methodology, teaching how to transition from sales strategy to proposal strategy. Details and Registration

Wordman

This 1-day workshop teaches participants how to address proposal documents that offer their own challenges when using Microsoft® Word's figure artwork and captions integrated with the text, complex heading numbering, multiple contributors and reviewers... Learn how to get the very best out of Word 2007 when developing proposals with this one-day in-house program from Wordman, whose workshops have been featured at the last seven annual conferences of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP). Attendees get three APMP accreditation Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Details and Registration

Winning Through Oral Proposals

This 2 day workshop, through instruction, exercises, and one-on-one coaching teaches participants the processes, skills, and techniques to develop and present winning oral proposals. Details and Registration

Writing Federal Proposals - Winning Executive Summaries

This 3-day combo workshop combines 2-day Writing Federal Proposals and 1-day Winning Executive Summaries. Writing Federal Proposals teaches participants a proven process for developing winning proposals to Federal customers. Through a proposal evaluation simulation, they learn how to create strategy and write proposal content that meets the evaluation criteria. Winning Executive Summaries focuses on how to leverage your win strategy in the executive summary of every proposal. Details and Registration

Winning Sales Proposals - Winning Executive Summaries

This 3-day workshop adds the element of effective executive summary development to the core Winning Sales Proposals workshop. Winning Sales Proposals focuses on short turn-around proposals in either a business-to-business or a task order response environment. The workshop builds on any sales methodology, teaching how to transition from sales strategy to proposal strategy. Winning Executive Summaries focuses on how to leverage your win strategy in the executive summary of every proposal. Details and Registration

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