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AR Training
for all skill levels

We train, develop, and mentor our AR pros throughout their career, and the Spotlight Academy can do the same for your AR pros. From foundational courses that help novices get started to advanced workshops that help experts tackle the most trying challenges, we can help your team enhance their AR skills.

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We build the new AR pros you need.

It’s no secret that great AR pros are hard to find. We’ve seen that some of the most promising AR pros are professionals who first start their careers in different disciplines and then later become immersed in the craft of analyst relations.

At the Spotlight Academy, we offer comprehensive, foundational training to enable and empower new pros starting their career in AR. Our course curriculum is built on our proven, measurable methodology and are complete with take-home tools to hit the ground running.

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Our clients
say it best.

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We can show you how to make a bigger imact

We’ll share the strategies, techniques, and tools we’ve used to elevate both the real – and just as critically – the perceived business value of analyst relations.

The Spotlight Academy’s advanced workshops can help experienced pros by inspiring new thinking and by co-creating solutions to critical program challenges.

Spotlight Academy workshops

We’ll get you started

Discover the essential elements of a successful AR program. This workshop includes instruction on how to create a strategic program with a focus on approach, execution, optimization, and outcome. You will receive tangible tools and templates to hit the ground running or to make significant improvements in your existing program.

In this training we will:

  • Explore how to approach AR strategy, including objectives and essential components of AR
  • Discover how to select and prioritize the analyst landscape
  • Practice how to plan and execute a practical interaction cadence, ensuring every analyst interaction is purposeful, contextual, and impactful
  • Uncover how best to approach major analyst report evaluations
  • Learn best practices on messaging and delivery for effective analyst interactions
  • Determine how to measure and communicate successes in AR in order to leverage wins across the organization

This is a two- or three-day in-person training at Spotlight’s office, best suited for novice AR pros.

Think we could help you build your AR Foundation?
We’ll get you started

When you’re ready to take your skills to the next level, our advanced workshops can be your catalyst. Select a topic from our course catalog below and we’ll help you refine and advance your skills.

Courses include:

  • Becoming an AR Leader. Learn specific strategies for evangelizing and integrating AR to earn a seat at the executive table
  • Design and Plan Your Program. We’ll review how to strategically set objectives, prioritize analysts, create a budget, navigate the analyst firm landscape, manage peer reviews, and plan for analyst engagements
  • Program and Performance Optimization. Refine your skills and optimize your AR program. We’ll review our best practices for successful analyst interactions, speaker training, preparing messaging and materials for interactions, moving an analyst towards advocacy, and more
  • Measuring and Activating AR. Set yourself up for success by determining the right KPIs for your program. We’ll discuss showing and proving momentum, reporting metrics, adjusting strategy based on findings, and activating advocates and assets across marketing, product, and sales
  • Claim Full Credit: If you’re frustrated with your performance in your last evaluation report, we’ll work with you to determine how to improve in the next round. We’ll co-create offseason strategy plans which include objectives, message strategy, tactics, and cadence

These workshops include personalized in-person training at the Spotlight office, best suited for intermediate or advanced AR pros and AR team leaders.

Which coursework are you interested in?

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