Workshops.

The Brief Doctor workshops are high-energy, hands-on sessions designed to inspire teams, ignite ideas, and deliver immediate impact.

We can deliver them in your office or arrange you a great venue, offsite or complete away day, residential or training event to suit you team and budget.

We have a tried and tested format that can be adapted to your specific needs, we can also add on additional elements and bring in a host of inspirational speakers, experts and task masters.

The Brief Doctor, Tim Hughes, is also a certified advanced Aerial Yoga instructor, if you want to have a really wild team-bonding session

In your office/offsite | fantastic venues globally

Briefs 1.01.

Your prescription for better creative.

How to create amazing briefs

Managing stakeholders and sign-offs
Inspiring creatives to produce awesome work
Feedback that kicks-ass
Smashing your goals and winning awards
Harnessing the power of AI without looking like a robot

This workshop is fully customisable to address your specific challenges and business goals.

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Meet your host.

Tim Hughes is a global authority on creative brand strategy and the founder of The Brief Doctor, a strategic creative consultancy. He’s known for cutting through complexity and turning tangled brand problems into clear, powerful ideas that people actually care about.

He presents The Brief Doctor workshops around the world, in your office, as part of an away day, training session or conference or in open access course.

Tim’s belief is simple: great brands don’t start with more noise, they start with a better brief.

In your office or offsite | Amazing global venues

The Art of Feedback.

How to work with creative people.

Insightful creative brand strategy
Understanding KPIs and business goals
Consumer-focussed thinking
Motivating creatives
The power of persuasion & getting your point across
Managing upwards
Celebrating success.
This workshop can be combined with Briefs 1.01 to make a longer session or work as a stand alone.

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How it works.

We focus on training creative and marketing teams on how to scope, write and give briefs. We also have some fun games with responding to them creatively.
We use our simple tried and tested Who, What, Why method which makes them accessible and fun.
Absolutely not. We teach people how to create amazing briefs and how to leverage them to thrive.
It’s not just marketing and creative. We cover the whole lifecycle of a brief from buy-in at C-suite level, to justifying the money to finance.
We’ve had everyone from CEOs to Security in our sessions.
We cover everything that you need to know.
- What is a brief
- Why they are important
- How to use them
- The difference between Strategic and Creative briefs
- How to write a brief
- How to brief a brief
- Scoping, KPIs, Goal-setting.
- Buy-In and Stakeholder management
- How to work with creative teams and agencies
- Media plannig
- Giving feedback
- Measuring success
- Celebrating sucess
- Winning awards and smashing your goals
Yes, bring your mum if you want, it’s about collaboration between all your strategic and creative functions, so we encourage you to bring a broad group.
Generally from about £6500 + VAT.
Additionally costs like special venues, activities and guests can be added on. We can handle full logistics if needed.
Absolutely.
We can sort out the whole thing, venue, catering, extra sessions, speakers, fun activities.
We also have travel partners who can arrange your travel and accommodation if requrired
Yes, we can devise an event in your office or off-site to hot-house a specific brief or business challenge.