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Course: Producing Better Proposals run by Chris Whyatt, Practical Bid Solution Ltd I recently attended the “Producing Better Presentations” seminar. I have to confess I was a reluctant attendee but the construction of the course, and the way it was presented was excellent. Having been involved in bids for many years it was very useful to go back and completely revisit the process, exposing some things that had become “bad habits” over time. I would thoroughly recommend it. Andrew Williams, Regional Business Development Manager, SunGard Public Sector, September 2008
Course: Personal Impact and Presentation run by Charles Serio, Serio Ensemble Arts Group “I attended the Intellect ‘Personal Impact and Presentation’ course to further develop my skills in delivering a presentation especially in the areas of (but not restricted to): holding centre stage better; engaging the audience more; improving body language; better voice delivery. The course exceeded my expectations because I got the above (and others) and also learnt self-monitoring and self-improvement techniques that are proven in national theatre. This is the best course I’ve attended on the preparation and delivery of a presentation.” Martin Hasker, Head of Public Sector, InterSystems, June 2008
Course: New Opportunities in Healthcare IT run by Murray Bywater, Silicon Bridge Research “Even though I've been involved in healthcare IT for many years, this training session gave a comprehensive and coherently put together summary of where things are today in the various UK and Ireland territories. The information about populations, market size and how healthcare provision is spread geographically in each country was particularly interesting and useful when considering how HIT may develop in the future.” Beth Sayles, Product Manager, McKesson UK, March 2008
Course: Boosting Your Revenues Through Customer Centric Marketing run by Bob Apollo, Inflexion-Point “Having recently attended the ‘Boosting Your Revenues Through Customer Message Marketing’ session, I am now in a position to use the theory and frameworks covered on the course to help direct our strategy in practice, after our first internal meeting the Chief Executive exclaimed that the course was worth every penny!” Nicola parker, Marketing manager, Sawfish Software Ltd, February 2008
Course: Producing Better Proposals run by Chris Whyatt, Practical Bid Solution Ltd “My single biggest personal objective for the day was to find a better/easier/less painful way of writing the Management Summary. The step by step process to identify the key elements needed for the MS makes the actual writing of it a much easier proposition. I often leave training courses trying to rationalise the value I have gained against the time I have lost. Yesterday I had no problems in that area as the day was extremely valuable. I would recommend it to anyone in an organisation with the responsibility for producing proposal documents.” Nigel Haines, Sales Account Manager, InterSystems, January 2008
Course: Producing Better Proposals run by Chris Whyatt, Practical Bid Solution Ltd “The philosophy and processes to producing ‘better proposals’ was laid out fantastically well allowing even a sales person to follow. I found the course to be a huge benefit to me in gaining focus and structure to something I always felt was out of my control. The process for bid management and compiling the executive summary will be used by me forever more. The course exceeded my expectations and met all of my objectives for the day.” Robert Skinner, Sales Manager – Financial Services, InterSystems, January 2008
Course: Powerful Communication: A Master Class Using Myers-Briggs run by Salma Shah, Beyond “I thought it was fantastic – one of the best bits of training I have done” “I was really enthused by the session” The above reflect a couple of attendees on the Myers Briggs course. From start to finish Salma has been attentive, professional and easy to work with, making the course informative, stimulating and fun. The result: a group of individuals who have a greater insight into themselves and a team that has a greater appreciation of each other. Thanks. David Hirst, Marketing Director, Capgemini, September 2007
