Happy Reviews

I feel like this course lacked exercises in best practice for minute taking. We could have watched a well chaired meeting and taken minutes and then compared examples or been shown a couple of examples of best practice. Instead we did a succession of exercises designed to show that listening is hard. Ie listened to a fairy story, listened to Becca describe how to draw lines on paper, listen to each other talk for 2 minutes on any topic and listen to a badly chaired meeting for 12 minutes. Our only formal minute taking exercise was at the very end when 2 people of the group had to "minute" our discussions of what we had learnt and these examples weren't visually shared or reviewed. It felt more like training on how to chair a meeting as there was a lot of focus on what the chair should do to make things run smoothly, and not much focus on how the minute taker could deal with challenges. Think it would have been helpful to learn about new technologies for minute taking, and was unhelpful to be told to consider writing notes by hand.

I felt that the course leant too far towards the "answers are inside you" and less towards practical advice. There's a million things I _could_ try to improve my mental wellbeing but I'm left having to decide which ones are most likely to work or any efficient way of measuring effectiveness. Some targetted advice from an expert would have been more useful.

There were some serious issues at the beginning which caused quite the delay to the training actually starting. The course was a bit too basic for what we needed or already knew and actually some of the questions we asked we were advised to look it up and figure it out ourselves

This sort of training really isn't for me, but can see how it would be useful for some

It wasn't as good as last's week's with Sal. The trainer also went off half way through to answer the door. I did get a good general overview of pivot tables though so may be able to apply this in the future.

I'm not sure what my objectives were for this course. Of the 3 courses we've done so far i found this the least useful.

It was fabulous thanks, you kept us all engaged and it was structured really well with plenty of breaks.

Slow to get going but improved. Needed a better intro to explain the course purpose. Not enough decent substance and content. Breakout groups should have been mixed up so we could speak to different team members. Felt the course was stretched out and could have been completed well within one hour.

Looking forward to part two as it has context in difficult situations and this is what I am here to learn more about

Too much covered. The booklet looks amazing but we barely skimmed the surface (but at least we have it to go through later!). Needed to be off-site.