Business Development Boot Camp

The Shipley Business Development Boot Camp provides a unique opportunity to complete all core course requirements for Shipley Certification in a single week. Taught as a live, online course with 3 days of live instruction or 5 days as an in-person course. These courses include Capturing Business, Managing Proposals, and Writing Proposals. This Boot Camp is interactive, building practical skills through lecture, discussions, presentations, and simulation of a real, competitive opportunity.

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Business Development Boot Camp

Workshop Details

Pricing To Win

This 2-day workshop teaches skills for business development, marketing, capture management, pricing, and finance personnel, including:

• Understanding customers’ acquisition budgets, including sources and uses
• Understanding customer assessments of bidders’ proposed prices/Price-capability trade-offs
• Reviewing competitors’ probable solutions and likely pricing strategies and tactics
• Iteratively adapting your company's solution, price, and capture strategy to improve win probability
• Influencing customers to prefer your company's own solution and price over competitors’ prior to release of an RFP
• Guiding proposal pricing efforts to ensure the offer places your organization in a position to compete and ultimately win
• Securing the award after proposal submittal by refining and executing pricing strategies

Participants actively engage in hands-on exercises based on a real-world competitive opportunity. This fast-paced workshop builds skills and expands knowledge in this critical aspect of winning business.

Winning in the Cost Volume

Learn skills related to planning and writing sections in any portion of a proposal. Practice a proven process for planning content and layout of winning proposal sections. You will also learn how to ensure your section will score highly during evaluation through a government evaluation.

You will learn to:

• Plan content using a storyboard to be compliant and implement approved proposal strategies
• Incorporate effective graphics and captions to better communicate messages
• Mockup section layout
• Organize content to be persuasive, write the planned proposal section, and examine the section draft for effectiveness
• Collaborate and coordinate with other team members writing different sections of the proposal

Managing Federal Proposals

Learn essential skills for managing a full proposal or volume in the U.S. federal market space. Develop detailed understating of federal proposal evaluation processes and their impact on proposal planning management.

You will learn to:

• Assess your own proposals like a government evaluation team
• Convert action-based capture strategies into message-based proposal strategies or win themes
• Assign requirements to appropriate authors for coverage in the proposal
• Prepare for and conduct an effective kickoff meeting, including providing clear instructions to authors
• Lead high-performing proposal teams on fast-paced schedules

Writing Federal Proposals

Learn skills related to planning and writing sections in any portion of a proposal. Practice a proven process for planning content and layout of winning proposal sections. You will also learn how to ensure your section will score highly during evaluation through a government evaluation.

You will learn to:

• Plan content using a storyboard to be compliant and implement approved proposal strategies
• Incorporate effective graphics and captions to better communicate messages
• Mockup section layout
• Organize content to be persuasive, write the planned proposal section, and examine the section draft for effectiveness
• Collaborate and coordinate with other team members writing different sections of the proposal

Capturing Business

Learn to improve your competitive position before your customer releases a request for proposal. By learning how to select and pursue the most winnable opportunities, you can lower business development costs and increase revenue.

Working with a team representing one of several contractors, you’ll cover topics including:

• Analyzing and building knowledge about potential business opportunities
• Understanding competitors and their likely approaches
• Developing strategically sound solutions to the customer’s needs
• Influencing customers to prefer your solution over competitors’

Managing Proposals

Learn essential skills for managing a full proposal or volume in the U.S. federal market space. Develop detailed understating of federal proposal evaluation processes and their impact on proposal planning management.

You will learn to:

• Assess your own proposals like a government evaluation team
• Convert action-based capture strategies into message-based proposal strategies or win themes
• Assign requirements to appropriate authors for coverage in the proposal
• Prepare for and conduct an effective kickoff meeting, including providing clear instructions to authors
• Lead high-performing proposal teams on fast-paced schedules

Writing Proposals

Learn skills related to planning and writing sections in any portion of a proposal. Practice a proven process for planning content and layout of winning proposal sections. You will also learn how to ensure your section will score highly during evaluation through a government evaluation.

You will learn to:

• Plan content using a storyboard to be compliant and implement approved proposal strategies
• Incorporate effective graphics and captions to better communicate messages
• Mockup section layout
• Organize content to be persuasive, write the planned proposal section, and examine the section draft for effectiveness
• Collaborate and coordinate with other team members writing different sections of the proposal

Course Description

OnDemand Advantages

• Learn at your own pace
• Revisit prior modules, as needed
• Practice key principles with case study exercises
• Test understanding with quizzes and a final exam
• Work toward Shipley Business Winning Certification
• Earn APMP CEUs and PMP PDU units

Featured Modules

Completion Criteria

What you'll learn

• Defining capture and scope with the BD process
• Preparing for decision gates with the BD process
• Defining the roles, responsibilities, and key competencies of a capture manager, proposal manager and proposal writer
• Converting action-based sales strategies into proposal strategies or win themes based on customer hot buttons
• Developing a comprehensive compliance checklist
• Creating a compliant and detailed proposal outline
• Creating high-scoring proposals and how proposals are evaluated
• Developing a solid proposal through the seven characteristics of winning proposals
• Implementing strong customer focus throughout the proposal
• Planning individual proposal sections using storyboards, annotated mockups, and similar tools

Benefits of Shipley OnDemand

With no fixed schedule and ample time to go back and review topics as needed, our on-demand course offers you an effective use of your time and training investment. In addition, our OnDemand— Micro Course provides:

• Reinforcement of key concepts, principles, and best practices contained in Shipley training
• Access to Shipley’s best practice guidebooks for ongoing reference and guidance
• Convenient log-in to learning sites wherever you have web access

Who Should Attend?

• Senior Executives
• Capture Managers
• Program Managers

• Proposal Managers
• Campaign Managers
• Proposal Contributors

• Proposal Writers
• Business Developers
• Proposal Coordinators

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Certification

This course qualifies as the six core courses needed for Shipley Certification. The course counts as 40 CEUs toward maintaining APMP certification and qualifies as 40 hours/units toward PMP PDU requirements. A certificate of training completion is issued upon successful completion of the course.

Below are the credits earned for this course and remaining credits needed to complete Shipley Certification

• Earned: 6 Core Learning Units for Capture Management, Proposal Management, and Proposal Writing
• Remaining: 4 Elective Learning Units

Cancellation Policy

Change Policy: If you cannot attend a workshop for which you have registered, you may transfer to another workshop of equal value, or you may substitute attendees from your company without penalty.

‍Cancellation Policy: If you cancel your registration, a $75 processing fee will be charged on all cancellations made up to 14 days in advance of the workshop start date. For cancellations made 14 days or less prior to the start of a workshop, a Cancellation Fee of $400 will be charged. If you do not attend a workshop and do not advise us, the full price of registration will be charged. Shipley Associates may cancel a workshop if enrollment is not sufficient and will coordinate your attendance in another workshop.

Discounts

If you register 30 days prior to the start of this workshop, enter EARLYBIRD at checkout to receive $100 off your registration fee!

Active duty military, veterans, and those with certifications from the Project Management Institute (PMI) or Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) are eligible for an additional discount. Please contact mprice@shipleywins.com for details and discount code.

Workshop Length

• 6 Shipley University™ Units
• 5 Days in-person or 3 days live, online

Workshop Material

• Workshop Manual
• Shipley Proposal Guide™
• Shipley Capture Guide™

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