What do people have to say about us and the courses we run? :

About our courses | About what people have learned with us | About what people achieved through working with us | Personal benefits that people gained through working with us | Business benefits

About our courses

• I’ve been on lots of courses. This is the best course of its kind. The most relevant I’ve attended.
• Thought I’d seen it and heard it all before. Great anecdotes, great enthusiasm, really helped me make sense of the material and do something with it.
• Comprehensive, with a good balance of things, 360s, Personal Styles profile, coaching, workshops, books and the support and ideas from fellow delegates.
• Excellent material. Exceptionally useful tools and techniques – these were great. Really practical, something you could use immediately and keep coming back to.
• Simple, useful ideas I could utilise and implement easily with the team.
• Extremely beneficial
• Unforgettable
• Liberating
• Inspirational
• Has changed attitude toward work, life, change, growth, people and the management role.
  

About what people have learned with us

• I had come from technical background, with no formal management training. I now understand what is required, and understand my own management strengths and development areas.
• I learned that I am not alone. My problems and anxieties are not unique: I took confidence and reassurance from this.
• Learned a lot about myself. The 360 degree development feedback and DISC helped me understand how I come across and how this is different to how others see me. They helped me see my own behaviours and their impact on others, and helped me understand others’ behaviours and manage them better.
• From the 360 degree review and DISC personal styles profile I got a comprehensive and accurate assessment of my strengths and weaknesses delivered in a way that gave me confidence, reassurance and positive encouragement to improve.
• Got better understanding what makes people tick. More aware of how people are and how to handle them - this has helped get the best from them.
• Learned new perspectives on management and business.
  

About what people achieved through working with us

• Longer-term plan and strategy devised and implemented.
• Have now developed clear goals for the team – has brought a more focused approach.
• Improved time management: More focused, tidy, efficient, organised.
• Improved influencing skills have build and improved working relationships.
• Much better at dealing with conflict. Improved my understanding of it and lost my fear. Now better able to prevent it, spot it, and deal with it
• I’m a better team player. Better able to value what I have to offer, appreciate what others can contribute, and how we work differently and bring different things.
• I’m better able to get beyond blame and help people learn from mistakes and move on.
• Significantly improved delegation and coaching – now getting more from people- which they are enjoying
  

Personal benefits that people gained through working with us

• Happier, more confident, settled and assured in the management role.
• Generally happier in myself and worrying less.
• More accepting of my self and others. Fewer disruptive emotions, more self-control
• More self-belief, increased confidence, more proactive, less overwhelmed.
• More resilient – better able to deal with pressures and stress.
• Better work life balance - more effective and happy in both.
• More positive attitude and outlook
• I’m more happy to try new things and learn from any setbacks. I want to embrace new things and take on new challenges
• Providing real direction and leadership
• I’ve moved forward a lot, and I’m ready and confident to move forward again.
• More confident about making the most of life’s opportunities

Business benefits

• People buying in to the bigger picture
• Now better at selecting the right people, people who not only have the technical skills, but who will fit in with the team and our culture.
• Improved induction. People getting off to a better start.
• Developed a training programme for group to increase skills and motivation
• People now flourishing, taking more responsibility. We’re getting more of their hitherto untapped potential.
• Through constructively challenging some problem behaviours the team is a happier place to be and more productive.
• Applied the teambuilding tools to the team – now greater understanding of their own and each other’s styles – which has enhanced relationships.
• Better communications structure and meetings structure. Made meetings shorter, more productive and efficient, providing clearer information.
• Team is now strong, cohesive, focused, goal-driven and motivated. I couldn't have said that a year ago.
• Working with the other teams we collaborate with to understand each others’ processes and improve collaboration to improve quality, speed and cost of service, and avoid costly errors and delays.
• Managing continuous change is much easier now.
• Spending the time I saved through better delegation and time management to develop long-term plan of action to improve the profitability of the business
• Providing a better service to clients.
• Being more proactive in marketing, completed our fist marketing brochure.
• Getting more involved in financial management of business
• Revisited processes and made improvements.
• Set up an external collaboration to facilitate development of a new service for the department.
• Developed and launched new services
• Now getting out talking to people more: Actively pursuing new business.
• Brought in more business through working with BD colleagues to help them understand our business better.
• Negotiated with suppliers to reduce costs and improve service.
• Meeting deadlines better
• Successfully brought a project in £1.8M under budget and no negative feedback
• Reduced error rate from 33% to 22%
• Productivity has increased from around 800 shipments a month in October 04 to around 800 a week in
• October 05. Quality has also improved from 0.6% errors in the 1st half of 2005 to 0.25% in the 2nd half of 2005
• Staff retention has improved significantly because people are happier and better supported.