testimonials
Boosting the confidence and creativity of our team
ROSS FAULKNER, Head of Futures, Upping Your Elvis
The first time I booked Neil was because he was recommended to me by a colleague to help with boosting the confidence of our team to deliver a really important presentation.
The second time was because I’d been on Neil’s workshop and loved it, so I recommended him to a client to deliver a workshop at a company away day.
We had a sales team who were great at selling products using figures and price, but we wanted them to become a more creative, consultative sales team.
When asked to stand up and talk about / sell a creative concept, lots of them suddenly got stage fright, and weren’t delivering their sales pitches with confidence or conviction.
We wanted them to be able to relax and roll with the flow of a creative sales pitch… we wanted them to be comfortable rolling about in ambiguity, not running away from it.
Very quickly, Neil gave people the confidence to be OK with not having all the answers. And in fact to welcome not having the answers, and enjoy that the questions they might get from their clients could be challenging, or ones they simply can’t answer. But that’s not just OK, but something they should embrace as part of the creative sales process.
We won Sales Team of the Year at the Media Week Awards
(part of which required the team to deliver a presentation to a panel of judges about why we were the best sales team).
The team nailed it!
Designing ‘Adaptive Communication’
ADAM KING, Senior Director (Big 4 professional services firm)
We needed public sector leaders to think, act and react differently with suppliers in order to drive better value for the public. Neil helped us design and deliver an approach to “adaptive communication” as part of this.
The session was engaging, memorable and practical and left participants better equipped to deliver value from their supplier relationships.
Enhancing team communication skills with effective story telling
Director, life sciences firm
I had been a delegate at one of Neil’s training workshops and when I was looking for someone to support an internal workshop ahead of a product launch I had no hesitation in reaching out to Neil.
I wanted to enhance team communication skills specifically around the art of effective storytelling to drive impact consistently with every interaction.
First of all, Neil listened to the original brief, sought clarification where needed and proposed ideas and flow of a workshop that would deliver the goals in a fun learning environment. The sessions over two days were expertly executed with great knowledge, exemplary facilitation and coaching techniques.
The energy , engagement and the immediate feedback from the delegates
was first class, many of the techniques covered are still practised today with
great results. This workshop set us up for success and it is the most impactful
training intervention I have ever been involved with, offering new skills and
thinking with a great deal of fun at the right pace. Neil went the extra mile,
exceeded expectations and was an absolute pleasure to work with.
Leadership:
How can you lead when you may be ‘in charge but not in control’? What is adaptive leadership? How can you lead in hybrid times?
Storytelling:
The oldest ‘software’ known to humankind. A powerful tool in leadership, business development, recruitment and making a creative culture contagious.
Bring some VaVaVoom to your Zoom
How do we make hybrid working work? Does ‘virtual’ have to feel remote? How can we make those video calls engaging, fun, interactive, sympathetic and efficient?
Enrich Your Pitch
Improv and storytelling in person or virtually
Team-build fun
Give your team chance to laugh together in the hands of one of the world's top improv performers
“We spent a brilliant day with Neil where he coached us through a variety of techniques to improve our presentation. Neil’s great skill is taking a quite daunting subject, in this case presenting, breaking it down, demystifying it, and providing a wide range of ideas, strategies, tips and techniques. And we had a ball doing it!
All of us loved the day, took a huge amount from it, and grew in confidence. And we certainly all now present better and more confidently.
— Managing Director, global media company