Happy Reviews

WWW: Really lovely coach Clearly labelled what we wanted to get out of the session at the beginning which was great! Ticked off points we went through so we could see we covered that part of the session EBI: There wasn't a big emphasis on presenting/what we think makes a good presenter. Begun the session in the deep end - Perhpas an overview of powerpoint. Why we use powerpoint/ what we use it for would be good.

There is a lot of information to take in. At this stage I am not sure how it will all fit together. This seems to be a common feeling within the group. I am trusting it will all become clear over the coming weeks/months.

Esther was very good at engaging the audience and pitching the training at the right level. For me it was slightly basic but this was no reflection on the trainer.

It was a well structured training much informative. The duration of the training as Day 1 was much longer.

Due to the quite different knowledge levels, it ended up having to cover quite basic functionalities therefore I didn't really get anything from the training. I wonder if perhaps it might be worth having a level 1 and level 2 option - so level 1 is basics of setting up a teams, sharing screen, muting etc. Then level 2 is more about using the different apps and functionalities. It was well done, just because we needed to keep it quite low level, I unfortunately didn't come away with anything new. Not Esther's fault at all and she taught the others very well.

Sometimes felt rushed - could do with more time on for example Change. We learn a lot from each other The breakout rooms where there are just 2 people are not productive. I would suggests a minimum of 4 people to get some healthy debate / ideas As mentioned previously an outline agenda with approx timings should be shared at the start of the session so we can all see what the plan for the day is.

This one was slighly frustrating because to demonstrate some of the features, the trainer needed us to be in the meeting rooms, rather than in the "training meeting itself", so I will need to go away and do some live practice for this one based on my notes, before I can be confident that I have understood what I was being taught and can do it in the real world.

Jayne Constantinis was a wonderful guest speaker who delivered excellent content to boost confidence and communication skills. It was exactly what I was looking for in this course and was well equipped with tangible resources.

It felt rushed. And having a printout not matching slides didn’t help

Good exercises