Customized trainings for organizations
Trainings that build the strategic skills of organizations, foundations, and grantees
Your Organization. Sharper. Smarter. Stronger.
Build a communicating organization with skills-building trainings.
Your organization’s success lies in how well it communicates and reaches the right audience. And that, requires skills, strategy and planning. Our trainings help you and your team move beyond just doing communications to fully integrate strategy into your work. Learn how to use communications as a tool for action, turning ideas into engagement and engagement into results.
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Ongoing communication Coaching and support
Our training doesn’t stop when the session ends. Spitfire provides a lead trainer and a dedicated set of coaches to ensure participants receive personalized guidance during a training. After the session, participants can continue working with their coach through a follow-up bank of coaching hours, reinforcing and expanding on what they’ve learned.
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Versatile training formats
Design a training cadence that matches your needs with our flexible session lengths. Whether you opt for a focused one-day session, an extended two-day training or a thorough three-day program, each format is designed to make the most of our time together.
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Progress you can see and measure
We measure success by what participants take away. Spitfire conducts pre- and post-session evaluations to assess participants’ knowledge and track their growth. This feedback loop helps us ensure participants leave the training better prepared to tackle communication challenges.
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Bard Prison Initiative
Media training to share powerful personal stories
The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) approached Spitfire for support at a crucial moment in its history: The fall 2019 documentary “College Behind Bars,” which Lynn Novick directed and Ken Burns executive produced, would soon highlight BPI’s work providing a college education to people who are incarcerated. Spitfire held four training sessions for BPI staff and alumni, including media and social media training and a messaging workshop. The team also conducted one-on-one coaching with alumni, especially for those writing op-eds and sharing their powerful personal stories of success after their release as they applied their liberal arts education to the world around them. The media and the public positively received the spokespeople and the program, thanks to Spitfire’s preparation that headed off criticisms at the pass.
