Contents
Finding the "right" agency
- Tasks: Specify your need for agency services.
- Tender & pitch: preparation and selection of agencies.
- Quality: Criteria for evaluating agency services.
Working with your agency
- Agency cosmos: What types of agencies are there? What suits our company?
- Agency services: What can and should agencies do? And what not?
- Agency Insights: How do agencies think and work?
- Agency calculation: What influences fee and remuneration models?
- Agency contract models: How should contract terms be structured?
Control your agency
- Agency briefing: Communicating expectations clearly - including the possibilities of AI in the briefing process.
- Agency collaboration: briefing & re-briefing, timings & deadlines, implementation & performance measurement - including insights into AI tools in the context of creation and campaign management, among others.
- Agency management: promoting and challenging agencies.
- Agency evaluation: Objective evaluation of agency services.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Benefit
- You know how to work efficiently with agencies and successfully manage agency projects from briefing to implementation and performance measurement.
- You can evaluate the agency's work and performance in a comprehensible and objective manner and provide appropriate feedback.
- You will receive recommendations for optimizing collaboration with agencies in order to make collaboration productive and efficient and to optimize output accordingly.
- You will receive valuable tips (including on the use of AI tools on the client and agency side), checklists and practical instructions for your own marketing and business practice.
Important: You are welcome to bring along relevant topics from your business and marketing practice for discussion.
Methods
Trainer input, practical cases from the attendees, best-practice examples, to-do lists, checklists, exchange of experience.
Recommended for
Specialists and managers from marketing, communication, PR, advertising, product management, marketing controlling, sales, CRM as well as specialists from purchasing/procurement who are responsible for the purchase or procurement of agency services.
Further recommendations for "Successful selection and management of agencies"
Start dates and details

Monday, 24.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 15.01.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 12.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Monday, 27.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm