Overview

- Dramatically improve your win rates
- Reduce the stress of the journey to submission
- Develop and value your people with high-quality APMP Accredited training

APMP Accredited Webinar Based Coaching Programme

Our webinar-based bid and proposals coaching programme is now authorised and accredited by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP), the global professional body for bids and proposals people.

APMP offers the world’s first, best and only industry-recognised certification program for professionals working in a bid and proposal environment. APMP certification is the global standard for developing and demonstrating proposal management competency.

Anyone, anywhere, can now either attend our webinar series or watch our online bid training video programme and then go on to take and pass the APMP online foundation exam *

Achieving APMP certification:

• Demonstrates a personal commitment to a career and profession.
• Improves business development capabilities.
• Creates a focus on best team practices.
• Gains the respect and credibility of peers, clients and organisational leaders and, in some cases, additional compensation.
• Reinforces bid/proposal management as an important role within an organization and not as an ad hoc function that anyone can perform.

For more information on joining nearly 10,000 people in becoming accredited members, please go to the APMP site here: https://www.apmp.org/page/AccreditationProgram

* There are additional charges for membership and to take the exam paid to the APMP via their examination partners. 

The Programme

Using insight gained from five years of research working with bidding and procurement experts from across the private and public / federal sectors in leading consulting, outsourcing, IT, legal and construction organisations of all sizes – we have developed a simple online step by step process and guide for delivering winning bids and proposals – thebidtoolkit.com.

The bid toolkit LIVE Coaching Programme is a six week series of focused one-hour live online training sessions with our founder, Jeremy Brim. The session expands on the bid toolkit online training content leveraging real-world examples from one of the best bid management professionals in the business. 

Each webinar session takes place on a Friday (lunchtime in the UK). It is preceded by some pre-work or reading and followed up with a self-led exercise and a live Q&A session on the Tuesday evening. 

All sessions are recorded and uploaded to a private LinkedIn group for the cohort, giving you the opportunity to ask questions and exchange experiences with your fellow learners. The group remains live for a month after the programme comes to a close. 

Programme Outline

The sessions will cover in detail the roles and responsibilities of your bid team members and a deep dive into each phase of the bid lifecycle, including:

• Research and Pursue - thoroughly researching opportunities and their environment to inform the bid decision and to position yourself to win
• Bid Decisions – making robust collaborative decisions on whether you can win, how you will win, and making the commitment of the right resources.
• Win Strategy and Kick-Off - developing your proposition, win themes and commercial strategy and then kicking off the development of content, with everyone aligned
• Solution and Story - designing your service delivery model and using storyboarding to develop winning responses
• Write and Price - further developing the content outlined in the storyboards into compelling responses and ensuring you are on track to deliver a winning bid to your client
• Review and Finalise – reviewing and improving your document to take it from a good to great
• Sign off and Submit – making sure you achieve appropriate and diligent sign off of your proposals internally and safely prepare your bid submission for delivery
• Present and Support - preparing a winning presentation and supporting your proposition through to deal close
• Handover and Mobilise – providing a seamless handover of the secured work to your delivery team to set them up for success

Who should take part

Sales Leads – should attend to develop their understanding of enabling higher conversion rates through: insight and positioning, high-quality input into your strategy and win themes, their part in informing your commercial strategy, helping the team to storyboard compelling content and maximising document impact through robust client-centric reviews. 

Bid Leaders – who are regularly nominated to lead proposals should attend to understand: their responsibilities and required behaviours, how they should select a winning bid team, how to develop your strategy, win themes and solution, their role in ownership of the commercials and risks, how to review your submission to drive quality and to provide impact and how to coach the team to pitch and present with confidence. 

Service Delivery Leads – who will be responsible for developing the solution and running the service once the business is secured should attend to further develop: their approach to building winning service delivery models that deliver value and innovation for the client, their skills in leading the deconstructing of requirements and questions to generate compelling content, and how to lead the presentation with impact and capture the clients attention as the lynchpin of the delivery team. 

Bid Managers – should attend to build on their techniques and approach to: mobilising bid teams to succeed, engagement of senior colleagues in value proposition development, project management, process and governance of tenders, and how to maximise outputs from meetings and to facilitate high impact reviews. They should also attend to see how they can help their teams take their presentations and pitches to the next level. 

Contributors – or subject matter experts (SMEs) should attend to understand the full tendering environment and how to play a winning part in it. They will acquire skills in challenging and verifying strategy, contribution to value adding solution development, and storyboarding and writing compelling responses with confidence. 

Each webinar and Q&A session begins promptly so please log in 5 minutes before the session start time. Log in details will be distributed by email in advance of each session.