Training

Empowering teams with the right skills and knowledge is crucial for long-term success. 

Our training sessions are tailored to meet specific needs and designed to build a team's confidence and competence. 

We bring a wealth of knowledge and practical expertise to our training programs. Our person-centred approach ensures that each session is engaging, informative, and directly applicable to your daily operations.

Our trainers are passionate about sharing their expertise. By choosing Agile Collective, you gain access to:

• Expert Instructors: Our trainers are experts in their fields, bringing real-world experience and insights to every session.
• Tailored Programs: We customise training to meet your needs and objectives.
• Interactive Learning: Our interactive and hands-on training sessions ensure that participants can immediately apply their learning.
• Ongoing Support: We provide continuous support and resources to help your team implement and maintain the skills acquired.

Our Training

Accessibility Training

Led by our Certified Professional in Web Accessibility, Maria, our accessibility training empowers teams to create inclusive digital experiences that benefit all users.

Our accessibility training covers:

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2): Understanding and implementing WCAG standards to achieve compliance.
• Practical Accessibility Techniques: Hands-on training in making web content accessible, including keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and color contrast.
• Building Accessible Content: Best practices for creating accessible content and documents.

Drupal Training

Our Drupal training ensures your team can confidently manage and develop your site, maximising its capabilities. Our training helps to establish best practice for Drupal development and includes the following:

• Introduction to Drupal: Understanding the basics of Drupal, including content creation, site management, and user roles.
• Advanced Drupal Development: In-depth training on module development, theming, and performance optimisation.
• Drupal Migrations: Strategies and best practices for migrating content to Drupal using Drupal’s migration framework.
  Drupal for Content Editors: Training tailored for content editors to manage and update website content effectively.
• Mentoring/coaching for junior developers:  Pair programming for junior developers with remote screen shares and ongoing support.

Design Thinking Training

Design thinking is a user-centred approach emphasising empathy, ideation, and experimentation. Our Design Thinking training equips your team with problem-solving skills essential for tackling complex challenges, develops a mindset focused on innovation, ensuring that solutions are creative, practical, effective and user centred.  Our training includes:

• Empathy Building: Understanding user needs and experiences through various research methods.
• Defining the Problem: Framing the right problem to solve by synthesising user insights.
• Ideation Techniques: Generating a wide range of ideas and fostering a creative environment.
• Prototyping and Testing: Creating prototypes to quickly test and refine ideas, ensuring they meet user needs.
• Iterative Improvement: Continuously improving solutions based on user feedback and testing results.

Digital Strategy Training

A robust digital strategy is essential for achieving organisational goals. Our digital strategy training gives your team the tools and knowledge to develop and execute a successful digital strategy. Our training covers:

• Digital Content Strategy: Developing and implementing a content strategy that aligns with your organisational objectives.
• Digital Communications Strategy: Crafting effective digital communication plans to engage your audience.
• SEO and Analytics: Understanding search engine optimisation and using web analytics to measure success and refine strategies.
• User Experience (UX) Design: Principles of UX design and how to create user-centric digital products.

User Experience (UX) Research & Design Training

Creating engaging and accessible user experiences is key to digital success. Our UX training ensures your team can create intuitive and user-friendly digital products. Our UX training includes:

• User Research Methods: Techniques for gathering user insights through interviews, surveys, and usability testing.
• Information Architecture: Structuring content effectively for better navigation and user experience.
• Wireframing and Prototyping: Creating wireframes and prototypes to test and iterate designs.
• Usability Testing: Conducting usability tests to gather feedback and improve designs.

Ways of Working Training

Our comprehensive, user-focused approach to project delivery ensures that projects are well-designed and achieve their objectives. Our training on ways of working ensures your team can apply our proven processes to deliver high-quality and user-friendly digital products. Our training on ways of working includes:

• Discovery: Learn how to gather all existing information about the client, the site, and the users. Conduct audits on accessibility, performance, and content. Perform further user research if required to fill knowledge gaps and review and update visual design guidelines.
• Definition: Understand how to create user personas, user journeys, and user stories that define user needs. Prioritise the biggest challenges for the project and establish clear goals based on user needs and project objectives.
• Design: We’ll introduce you to design sprints. Through targeted design sprints, you will learn how to address major challenges identified in the Definition phase, focusing on visual design, content strategy, migration planning, technical complexities, search functionality, and page layouts.
• Development: Gain insights into Agile methodologies. Learn how to run sprints of fixed lengths, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review and demo, and iterative updates.
• Delivery Phase: Understand the importance of rigorous testing and validation. Learn how to conduct final testing, execute the launch plan, and perform post-launch reviews to meet project goals.

Benefits of Agile Collective Training

Our training services offer numerous benefits, including:

• Enhanced Skills: Equip your team with the latest skills and best practices.
• Improved Efficiency: Streamline processes and improve the efficiency of your digital operations.
  Greater Confidence: Build confidence in your team to tackle complex digital challenges.
• Better User Experiences: Enhance the user experience of your digital products, leading to higher satisfaction and engagement.
• Compliance and Accessibility: Ensure your digital assets comply with accessibility standards and regulations

How Our Training Works

Our training programs are flexible and can be delivered in various formats to suit your needs:

• Onsite Training: We come to your location and provide hands-on training tailored to your team.
• Online Training: Interactive virtual training sessions that provide flexibility and convenience.
• Workshops: Intensive, focused workshops that dive deep into specific topics.
• Ongoing Support: Continuous access to resources and support to help your team apply what they’ve learned.

Related services

User Experience (UX) Audit
Visual Design Audit
Accessibility Audit
Design Sprint
Digital Strategy