Five Conversations Styles© Programme Reviews

Really interesting, as stated because I am going to be on maternity leave and want to ensure the team stay motivated etc this has been really helpful.

I found this session about review style especially interesting, as it gave participants the chance to offer a live review to each other. This helped to give an idea of a real-life interaction with a colleague. I also found it useful that this style was explained as being best for when addressing short term changes and should be used as a motivational tool.

Thursday's session was probably the one I felt most comfortable with and most suited to my requirements. I manage several junior staff and my role is to bring out the best of them. There have been times in the past when I have felt I haven't been doing that but I feel the methods identified in the Coach session will help me implement that.

Enjoyed today's session looking at coaching style - it was really useful to learn about ways to use open questions in a managerial sense, rather than in the journalistic way I am used to! The TED cheat was also really helpful and I will definitely work on putting this into practice.

I thought overall the session was fine and gave course participants ample time to comment and participate in the session. I thought the session ended abruptly however, with more to be explored on the style of how to deliver your message and non-verbal communication such as hand movements and eyebrows for example.

This session really got you thinking, which was great! Quite hard to all share real-world experiences as our roles are so different, but very engaging content and good questions asked by the facilitator.

Main takeaway was a great point around focusing on an end goal or outcome, rather than delivery of a task to a member of staff/how their personality will deal with it. Really useful way of handling something.

I understand everyone has time constraints but there's a lot to this topic and I'd like to spend more time investigating it. Other than that, I'm enjoying the course.

After only the introductory session it is hard to gauge overall service, but so far good.

Really enjoyed the first session and understanding more about the course , looking forward to the following sessions