Maguire Training Reviews

Very informative and inspiring work by Dr Shashi. Learnt a lot

The trainer outlined that there were 4 different components which made up emotional intelligence. We spent the first 2 hours introducing ourselves, the subject and setting the scene. We did not get into any content for quite some time, and then spent the next 5 hours exploring how to identify and manage our own emotions. I feel like this may be useful for someone who has had feedback about anger issues, but my primary objective was to learn more about emotional intelligence to be able to improve working relationships and performance. Too much time was spent on the first two components which make up emotional intelligence, with only 20-30 minutes looking at 1 model for identifying 4 different people styles, with the advice on how to apply emotional intelligence to improve relationships to "mirror others people style within challenging conversations". By contrast, we learnt 6 techniques for managing our own emotions, some of which would have been very challenging to apply in an real time conversation with a colleague. There was not enough weighting given to content that would have been most useful in a professional environment. Perhaps the trainer could ask for participants to share what they want to get out of the session in advance, and efforts made to adapt the content to meet the learning objectives of participants?

Thoroughly enjoyed today, found out a lot of interesting methods I can use to tackle in my everyday working life

Best training course I’ve been on. The variation between theory and practice sessions in our little groups kept me engaged and helped put things into context. Clare is very good at getting everyone involved in the discussions and making the group feel comfortable

Has been factual, engaging, eye opening and fun.

Brilliant , I can’t wait for day 3 and 4 - wish there was day 5,6,7,8

Very good balance between informative information and practical exercises

Very well led training. training materials usefull

Mike is a superb, engaging trainer.

Mike is a very engaging trainer, probably the best I’ve had. The content was excellent, relevant and broad and he got me thinking of elements I hadn’t considered before.