2025 AU-NZ Sponsorship Workshops Announced

Meaning is sponsorship’s superpower!

With so much focus on AI, data, and other emerging and rapidly improving technologies, the challenge for sponsors and rightsholders alike is how to embrace the new tech and media landscape, while preserving what makes sponsorship such a powerful marketing tool.

Optimising your sponsorship results means balancing analysis and creativity, empathy and jaw-dropping tech, deep dives and shortcuts.

For sponsors, the result is stronger, more measurable outcomes, finding efficiencies without compromising effectiveness, engendering advocacy, and building brand love. For rightsholders, the result is more revenue, happier, more engaged sponsors, multi-year deals, easier renewals, and becoming a preferred partner.

These workshops have been fully updated, with loads of new strategies, angles, and case studies.

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Dates and cities

The 2025 Power Sponsorship Workshops will take place in both Australia and New Zealand.

Auckland

Rightsholders – 16-17 July 2025

Sponsors – 18 July 2025

Venue: Employers & Manufacturers Assn of NZ, Grafton

Sydney

Rightsholders – 22-23 July 2025

Sponsors – 24 July 2025

Venue: TBC in Sydney CBD

Workshops offered

Workshops are offered for both sponsors and rightsholders. Both workshops are highly interactive and incorporate group, small group, and individual exercises, many case studies and examples, as well as ample opportunity for addressing your questions.

You’ll find brief course overviews below. For detailed course outlines, you can download the PDF brochure. You can also check out reviews from past workshop participants. Ready to book? Head over to the Power Sponsorship booking portal.

Getting to “Yes”

Strategies, secrets, and street smarts for dramatically increasing your bottom line

This two-day workshop for rightsholders is the gold standard for sponsorship training. Kim Skildum-Reid works primarily on the sponsors’ side, and knows what they expect, what you’re competing against, and what it takes to get them to “yes”.

This workshop is highly interactive and incorporates group, small group, and individual exercises, many case studies and examples, as well as ample opportunity for addressing your questions.

You will learn to…

  • Structure your offers for maximum, bulletproof value in good times and bad
  • Create an offer that makes it easy for a sponsor to say “yes”
  • Position your organisation as a sophisticated, preferred partner
  • Target new potential sponsors and sponsor categories
  • Identify high-value benefits that are easy and cheap to deliver
  • Renew and upsell current sponsors
  • Sell sponsorship on a short lead-time
  • Navigate sponsor politics to your advantage

Corporate Sponsorship Masterclass

Advanced strategies to radically elevate your results, buy-in, and even your job description

This one-day workshop for sponsors combines the most cutting edge strategies and promising trends from around the world, with practical skills, to create huge advances in your sponsorship results.

This workshop is highly interactive, and incorporates group, small group, and individual exercises, dozens of case studies and examples, and ample time to address your questions.

You will learn to…

  • Harness the cutting-edge approach, angles, and ideas that will drive your results and minimise costs
  • Integrate augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge tech
  • Structure your portfolio for maximum power and efficiency
  • Determine which underperforming sponsorships are worth re-engineering, and which have to go
  • Increase internal buy-in, and mitigate ad hoc and knee-jerk decisions
  • Get huge results from smaller investments
  • Measure and communicate your real results

Bonus course inclusions

Every registered participant will receive one complimentary, formal coaching session with Kim Skildum-Reid, to be used within twelve months after your workshop. This is a US $770 value. Put Kim to work on your toughest challenges! Just have a quick question? Workshop participants are always welcome to drop Kim a line for a quick chat and some off-the-cuff advice.

Participants in Getting to “Yes” will receive a copy of the fourth edition of industry bestseller, The Sponsorship Seeker’s Toolkit. Participants in the Corporate Sponsorship Masterclass will receive a copy of Kim’s brand new second edition of her bestseller for sponsors, The Corporate Sponsorship Toolkit.

PLUS this never-before offered inclusion: Every participant will be invited to two one-hour live ask-me-anything sessions with Kim. These will be scheduled for September and early December. Recordings will be available afterward for anyone that wasn’t able to attend live.

All participants will receive additional follow-up materials and recommended reading.

Discounts available

Although course prices have increased for the first time in over a decade, there are several discounts available, including the brand new super early bird discount. Discounts can be combined.

  • Super early bird discount – Register and pay by 31 March 2025 and take AU $200 off the cost of Getting to “Yes”, or AU $100 off the cost of the Corporate Sponsorship Masterclass
  • Early bird discount – Register and pay by 1 April and 11 May 2025 and take AU $100 off the cost of Getting to “Yes”, or AU $50 off the cost of the Corporate Sponsorship Masterclass
  • Charity discount – Registered charities can take AU $100 off the cost of Getting to “Yes”
  • Group discount – Register four or more people for one workshop and take AU $100 each off the cost of Getting to “Yes”, or AU $50 each off the cost of the Corporate Sponsorship Masterclass

More information and registration

If you want more information, you have questions, or want to register, you’ve got some options:

 

 

 

 

 

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