The Creative Work Place

"Expect an enjoyable but demanding day. Come with an open mind. Come willing to try out new things and be willing to be challenged."

Senior Civil Servant

"Pretty intensive, I mean you're on your toes all the time, which is no bad thing but quite shattered by the end of it. Very enjoyable and good fun."

Senior HR Manager

"I think that this was probably one of the most worthwhile things that I've been to in a very, very long time. I can't remember the last time that I felt so outside my comfort zone, so stretched. It was excellent."

Manager

"There's a great value in being able to see how you come across in an interview or presentation and being able to watch it in really close detail on film. But the really great value is being taken gradually taken through a series of increasingly uncomfortable scenarios and being asked to test and develop new skills and seeing how they work, how they feel, but also the person that you're talking with, to see how it feels to them."

Senior Manager

"I'll go away with a list of things which aren't difficult, that I now know, having seen them on camera, really do make a difference."

Deputy Director

"It's been incredibly reassuring. I really didn't like the idea of doing a lot of stuff in front of the camera. I don't relish the idea of doing interviews and presentations and Q & A sessions. And actually I'm just going to go away thinking - it's absolutely fine! I genuinely didn't have a moment in that last session in which I felt nervous or uncomfortable. It's just fantastic to have that reassurance and obviously a lot of that has to do with what we've been learning over the last couple of days."

Assistant Director

"The amount of role play and practice on front of camera that we have done has given me more confidence to believe that that I am quite a good communicator and I can do it. This course has definitely given me that confidence by repeated use of the camera."

Humanitarian Advisor

"Because I am a naturally empathetic person and interested in what people do and why they do it, I didn't realise that I still had the capacity to not engage, at all. And I have. And that really came over. So even if I only took that from today it'd be well worth it. But actually getting that feedback and having somebody who could give me the chance to experiment and get it right - it's been fantastic. Thank you very much."

HR Manager

"Early next week I have to go before a Board and present a paper, and without a doubt I'll think back on these tips. Incredibly useful."

Deputy Directory

"Extraordinarily valuable. I shudder to think what I would have been like in a public meeting if I hadn't done a course like this. This will definitely stay with me and be with me in such situations. And to have the one to one coaching - I don't see any other way of really nailing it."

Senior Civil Servant