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Workshops.

The front door to working with SHIFT. Fixed-fee, time-boxed, and ended with a written deliverable. The Workshop is where we meet your team, work alongside them, and produce something defensible together.

Four kinds of Workshops. One leads to where you need to go.

— 01 / Strategy Workshop

Strategy Workshop

Set direction. Define what you are trying to do, and how.

A Strategy Workshop runs over two days with your leadership and operational team in the room. It is structured, evidence based, and ends with a written strategic position and a twelve month roadmap. We work alongside your team to define direction, pressure test assumptions, and produce a position you can act on.

Strategy Workshop

AI Readiness

Map where AI runs in your production. Before it maps you.

Strategy Workshop

AI Integration

A plan to integrate AI into production without breaking quality.

Strategy Workshop

Production Strategy

Twelve months. Commissioning, costs, capacity, capability.

Strategy Workshop

Operating Model Design

The structure decisions you make now define capability for years.

Strategy Workshop

Process Improvement

Fix the workflow that is repeatedly slow, expensive, or broken.

Strategy Workshop

The First 90 Days

A deliberate plan for the new role. Not an inherited one.

Strategy Workshop

Day-One Studio

Production done right from the start. Not retrofitted.

— What follows

A clear position usually demands building. After a Strategy Workshop, most brands move into a multi month engagement to build out the operating model, team, or AI workflow the strategy calls for.

— 02 / Diagnostic Workshop

Diagnostic Workshop

Look at your own production, together. Honestly.

A Diagnostic Workshop is one day plus pre work. The team brings the artefacts (briefs, budgets, tool lists, rosters, production records) and we run the diagnostic alongside them, not on them. The findings belong to your team because your team built them. Every diagnostic uses SHIFT's structured framework and ends with a RAG scored report.

Diagnostic Workshop

Markup Diagnostic

Find the markup you cannot see in your production budgets.

Diagnostic Workshop

Roster Diagnostic

An independent view of who is right for the work, and who is not.

Diagnostic Workshop

Shadow AI Diagnostic

A full picture of AI in use before the next legal question.

Diagnostic Workshop

Brief Diagnostic

Most production failures start in the brief.

Diagnostic Workshop

Maturity Diagnostic

Six dimensions. RAG scored. In a day.

Diagnostic Workshop

Insourcing Diagnostic

A quantified test of whether insourcing makes sense for you.

— What follows

A clear picture often surfaces a specific production or upcoming project that now needs hands on, independent oversight. Many brands move from a Diagnostic into an embedded engagement on that production.

— 03 / Practice Workshop

Practice Workshop

Master a discipline. Deep on one thing that matters.

A Practice Workshop runs over one or two days with the focused team in the room. The discipline is delivered by a senior advisor with deep, current experience, not generalist consulting theory. Every Practice Workshop is applied to real upcoming work the team is about to deliver, so what you learn lands the next week.

Practice Workshop

Sustainable Production

A structured approach to carbon targets that does not inflate costs.

Practice Workshop

Procurement-Production Alignment

Both sides aligned. Without compromising production quality.

Practice Workshop

Post-Production Cost Control

Where budget overruns hide. Found and controlled.

Practice Workshop

Music & Licensing Strategy

Sync fees and territorial rights, handled properly.

Practice Workshop

Cross-Border Production

Cost, talent, and compliance across territories.

Practice Workshop

Social-First Production

Production designed for the social-first reality.

Practice Workshop

Live & Real-Time Production

Capability rehearsed before the moment arrives.

— What follows

Most Practice Workshops orbit a specific production where the discipline needs applying. After the Workshop, brands often invite SHIFT to lead that production with independent advisory.

— 04 / Leadership Workshop

Leadership Workshop

Work out your position together. Before the moment arrives.

A Leadership Workshop is half a day to one day, senior audience only. The leadership team builds its position on a high stakes topic ahead of the conversation that needs it. The board, the CFO, the cultural flashpoint. SHIFT facilitates. The leadership team produces the answer. Every Leadership Workshop ends with a defensible position the room has built and signed off together.

Leadership Workshop

The Board AI Workshop

Walk into the board with a defensible AI position.

Leadership Workshop

Production ROI Workshop

Production ROI in language finance can act on.

Leadership Workshop

AI Cost vs. Value Workshop

What in your AI stack actually earns its place.

Leadership Workshop

Crisis Production Workshop

A crisis production plan, rehearsed before the crisis.

— What follows

Leaders who have had SHIFT in the room for a high stakes moment usually want us in the room for the next one. After a Leadership Workshop, the most common path is an ongoing advisory relationship with the leadership team.

What every SHIFT Workshop ends with.

Every Workshop produces a written outcome the team owns. Not slides. A document.

— 01

Full documentation.

Everything that was discussed, decided, and left open, written up and shared with the team.

— 02

Full analysis.

A structured analysis of the inputs the team brought into the room. Briefs, budgets, tool inventories, rosters, production records. Every artefact gets a written read.

— 03

Next steps.

Concrete actions the team committed to in the room, with owners and timelines.

— 04

A recommendation.

Where it applies, a recommendation on the right SHIFT engagement to follow. Sometimes that is no follow up at all. Both are valid outcomes.

What comes next

After the Pilot, where it makes sense.

After the Workshop, where it makes sense.

[01]

Campaign

Embedded production advisory on a specific campaign or production.

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[02]

Build

Advisory led design and build of your in house production capability.

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[03]

Engine

Ongoing senior advisory across content, campaigns, and operations.

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— Start with a conversation —

Talk to us about a Workshop.

Tell us where you are and what is coming up. We will scope, schedule, and run it with you.