For me, training courses have to be engaging. They have to appeal to those who learn by watching, those who learn by listening and those who learn by doing.

Put me in a training room and read a Powerpoint presentation to me and I’ll be nodding off/planning my shopping list/twitching to get my phone out and other such things. Put me in a training room and take me on a journey by making me do things, challenging my thinking and letting me ask questions and I’ll be hanging around afterwards to find out more.

DigitalJen training is all about learning and doing. Whether it’s learning to use online tools such as Canva, honing your social media content or looking at ethical decision making, we’ll always look at the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’.

Thank you Jenny for today’s Canva Kitchen Table workshop. Love the concept, love the feel and I came away knowing that Canva CAN and WILL do what I need it to do for my business! In a small, friendly group, all our questions are answered and demonstrated. Jenny is a fantastic teacher.

Kitchen Table Training

I run training courses for up to 4 people per session from my kitchen table in St Albans. These are very informal and involve tea (or coffee) in mugs, cake and lots of hands-on opportunities to try things out. Morning courses run from 9.30am until 11.30(ish) and afternoon sessions run from 1pm until 3pm. Since starting the courses, we’ve found that all sorts of collaborations have been formed and ideas generated from chatting about how different businesses work as we learn. You can book online here

Telling Your Story

This course is a bit different to those listed below – this one gives you the opportunity to tap into Jen’s experience (and contacts) when it comes to telling your business story online. I’ve developed this session based on feedback from other courses where people have said they would love to come and talk about getting their message ‘out there’. This session will look at the mix of story telling tools out there (traditional marketing techniques, soical media, imagery, blogging etc) and what else might be available to you to engage and retain your customers. Having been blogging for nearly 8 years, worked in a variety of sectors and passed her Diploma in Strategic Sales with Key Account Management with Distinction, Jen has plenty of ideas, tricks and tips to share that can be applied to your business

This is course is £60 per session/person as you get more access to Jen’s list of useful people and contacts. It runs a limited number of times a year

Canva

Canva is a brilliant tool for creating your own imagery for use on your website and social media.

We’ll be looking at why Canva is such a great tool, how to use it, customising your own images and whether ‘Canva for Business’ is worth the investment for you.

You’ll need to bring your laptop and ideally have some images you’d like to play with stored on it.

Courses are £40 per session/person and you can book on them here

Facebook for Business

This course is for small business owners who know that they need to do more on Facebook but aren’t quite sure how to go about it.

After finding out what sort of relationship you have with Facebook, I’ll make sure that we cover what you want to know and make sure that you’re confident with the terminology Facebook are currently using, what sort of things you can post, when you can post them and how you can ‘measure’ the success of your posts. Depending on your needs, we can look at posts, pages, profiles, groups, insights, notifications, messaging, sharing the page admin, to boost or not to boost, adverts, targetting and campaigns.

We’ll also cover a bit about the business ethics involved with using Facebook, choosing images and how your personal profile on Facebook can have an effect on your brand.