Fast-track your team’s communication skills (and fire up their confidence)
— so you can help more kids and
families, more effectively.
THE PROBLEM?
Today’s audiences are savvy. And what works to reach and inspire people is constantly shifting. Persuasive marketing and communications requires up-to-date education, skills and practice.
And your team is already busy serving as experts in their own positions — and trying to cram 20 hours of work into eight hour days.
But what happens when your fundraising pro suddenly has to talk to reporters? Or your policy specialist is asked to run social media? When a project manager is tasked with messaging an important grant-funded report’s results?
Your experts exhaust themselves — and run the risk of muddling your message — trying to learn a whole new skillset on the fly.
Learn with Forthright: we lead workshops and retreats to level up your marketing and communications in education and nonprofit realms.
Because the truth is, marketing and communications is more than a department these days: it’s everything.
If you write emails, speak to other humans or share your work online…that’s communications.
It’s time for some Forthright training.
Support your team with one of our marketing and communications workshops. They’re jam-packed with helpful how-tos, so you’ll all walk away with confidence and the knowledge you need to take (successful) action.
Here are some useful skills our clients hire us to teach in workshops:
email marketing
social media and digital strategies
messaging
media relations
building donor relationships
advocacy campaigns
communications strategies
content marketing
public relations
And while we teach the same marketing fundamentals over and over, each workshop is unique. Because your organization is unique. Your audience is unique. Your cause is unique.
Maybe your team has communications experts on board, and you’re just looking for an extra dose of on-the-record skills to spread the word about a new policy initiative. A four-hour media relations training may be all you need.
Or maybe your team of talented communicators would benefit from a full service retreat to level up your communications strategies for the upcoming year.
Want to treat your team with a training retreat?
Leave logistics to us.
We are full service and can take care of booking travel, ensure yummy fresh catering and provide a fun, comfortable space with lots of natural light in our city or yours. Need a budget friendly option? We can come to you, use your office space and bring bagged lunches.
If you're thinking, what about virtual workshops? Good news — we offer those, too! Our team is trained in online facilitation best practices and we love creating warm virtual gathering spaces that foster learning and collaboration.
Whatever you choose, expect to get a TON done in a retreat. No snooze fests. Expect engaging activities, and we promise we won’t talk for longer than 20 minutes at a time.
We’ll take your training needs and build the perfect session for YOU. The only thing we won’t modify is providing a high-quality experience.
Tell us your goals, and we’ll work together to tailor the ideal training to take your team’s marketing from feeling like a slog...to a slam dunk success.
Need a nudge?
Our workshops have been called “an excellent investment." Also: “polished and downright perfect."
“I believe Forthright’s expertise and knowledge of nonprofit marketing is critical to the future of traditional public education. Forthright effectively guided our team through a two-day retreat resulting in a new approach to our marketing strategy and a year’s worth of marketing planning to ensure we’re intentionally communicating with all of our district’s audiences.”
— Andrew Smith, Rowan-Salisbury Schools; Assistant Superintendent
of Transformation
