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Winning with Proposals

2 Day Course

Do your proposals get you to the next stage in the bidding process?

What is the course?

  • A practical course for anyone who writes or contributes to proposals
  • the tools to help participants produce high-quality responses to customers' requests for written, or presented, documents
  • a process that creates a winning proposal
  • the thinking that produces a written document that reflects the customer's requirements a means of promoting a solution that sells itself
  • Over two days, participants learn what makes a winning proposal. They also compete to produce a draft proposal. Only one team can win the contract

What are its objectives?

On completion of the course, participants will:

  • understand what makes proposals succeed or fail
  • understand how customers read and react to proposals
  • take on the competition ethically
  • understand what a Management Summary is for, and how to produce one
  • evaluate the quality of their proposals
  • identify short and long-term objectives for improving the quality of their own work on proposals

What topics are covered?

All elements of the client meeting:

  • how customers review proposals
  • marketing mix model
  • characteristics of a winning proposal
  • developing a proposal strategy - case history
  • the management summary
  • taking on the competition - ethically
  • persuasion in proposals