Here’s a summary of feedback from 20 participants attending a ‘Challenging Conversations’ 1-day course this week, in a North West NHS Trust:

Thought provoking     19

Made me think            17

Informative                  15

Motivating                   15

Valuable                      15

Enjoyable                    13

Interesting                   13

Relevant                      13

Captivating                   11

Professional                 11

Relaxed                        11

Entertaining                 10

Lively                           10

Excellent                        9

Comfortable                   8

Stimulating                     8

Felt valued                     7

Put me at my ease         6

Exciting                           3

And here are some of their written comments:

• Brilliant
• Excellent delivery of the course and format
• Facilitation and format were excellent
• Very engaging facilitator
• Good pace, made it fun
• Very informative and captivating
• Really good
• More captivating than most
• Enjoyable, reassuring, and gave me new ideas
• Fantastic; Arnie is great!
• Excellent facilitator, very engaging, good mix of group and taught style
• Really excellent and useful; transferable to personal and professional life
• Really enjoyable, informative and fun
• Should be mandatory – some really useful strategies
• Excellent facilitator – very pleasant and inspiring
• Very informative and enlightening
• This course should be more readily available to staff – more frequent
• Good inter-personal skills of presenter
• Thoroughly thought provoking and informative day
• Fab presentation, excellent delivery, giving inspiration and motivation
• The best ‘strive’ course I have been on; engaging, valid and informative
• Excellent! Very engaging good balance of structure and flexibility, information and discussion

If this is a course you think you’d like to run within your organisation, please give us a call…