Testimonials
breathingspace has been engaged by a number of award winning firms which are ranked in the Financial Times "UK's Best Workplaces"
Finance
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley invited breathingspace to design a programme for a group of 60 delegates with the objective of...
- Building stronger co-operation and understanding between 2 key departments
- Integrating new team members with established ones
Over a 48 hour period breathingspace designed and executed a programme to compliment a number of formal presentations.
"Just wanted to thank you for pulling the event together for us. It has worked out fabulously well, and has been very important to the development of our team. I feel that we met all our goals: everyone seems to have had a great time, we have increased the connections among different groups and people, and hopefully it has helped build loyalty to Morgan Stanley and increased everyone's motivation. The challenge now is to come up with something at least as good for next year!"
Managing Director
FMCG
Coca Cola
Coca Cola invited breathingspace to design a one day workshop for a team of 10 senior sales and marketing managers with the objective of:
- Presenting individuals with a series of leadership challenges in an outdoor environment
Over an 8 hour period all members of the team were presented with a "leadership challenge" which involved solving a problem and involving all members of the team. Instant feedback was given by both facilitators and members of the team.
"The day worked really well for all concerned and proved challenging yet achievable for all delegates. We look forward to developing these workshops with you in the future and using them in other areas of the business."
Marketing Manager, Coca Cola
Construction
Architect Design Partnership
The teams from a number of regional practices were brought together to build stronger communication links. Through a series of outdoor activities, breathing space was able to offer something for everyone whether an extremely challenging activity or something more sedentary.
"I would like to give you very positive feedback and thanks to your colleagues for making the event a great success for us. A couple points that I particularly appreciated were;
- The events were ‘real’. On previous occasions organisers have health and safety audited activities into a state of farcical pointlessness. We hugely valued that your colleagues had sufficient skill and confidence to genuinely challenge us.
- The attitude of the event leaders was tremendously positive. It is very difficult for skilled sportsmen not to appear patronising to a bunch of corporate guests on a brief taster session, but your team entirely avoided that pitfall and managed to communicate that they were keen to share their enthusiasm for their sport, which was hugely motivating. Several are talking of returning under their own steam to do more.
- You dealt well with the quite wide range of ability levels making participation purposeful for all."
Partner ADP
Pharmaceutical
KCI Medical
The client invited breathingspace for business to conduct a number of focus groups in the organisation to understand the current perception of training, its role and benefits. Following this, a two day workshop was designed around the "Connected" theme involving a balance of in house technical training, consultancy training, a high performance team speaker and light hearted programme of team tasks to build trust, team spirit and improved communication.
"Our development programme was a great success, congratulations to all those involved and see you next year."
Operations Director
Sport
England Cricket Board
2009 is an extremely busy year for the England Cricket Board and came quickly after a World Cup year in 2008. The Ashes series against Australia will be the highlight but like many sports the economic climate continues to present challenges. breathingspace were engaged to deliver a 2 day programme around the theme “can do” to a team of 120 delegates. Working with the management coaches and sailors Breathingspace ran a unique insight programme at the National Sailing Academy, Weymouth.
"The feedback has been great – as you can imagine having an insight in to Team GB sailing and the National Sailing Academy was extremely interesting for our team and we can certainly learn from them
Thanks for organising such a great few days!"
Head of HR
Media
SBS
SBS invited breathingspace to design a programme which reflected the success of re-engineering their links with European partners
"I know I said it yesterday too, but I just wanted to send you a line saying it again: Thank you!!
I've had a lot of great feed back already, so 1 day still can do something."
Deputy Country Manager, UK
Consultancies
The One Programme
breathingspace was invited to design and deliver a 48 hour personal challenge element for a group of Senior Executives completing a 1 year development programme in the South West. A challenging experience was run on Dartmoor.
“We definitely made the right choice when we appointed breathingspace. I look forward to an enduring collaboration between our respective organisations”
Founder of The One Programme – a programme for Chief Executives and Senior Managers from leading UK companies.
Vistage – The world’s largest business networking organisation
Vistage the international business networking group, requested breathing space to design and deliver a 3 day team development programme for a team of Managing Directors from the West Midlands. Using an ocean racing yacht breathing space ran an enlightened programme highlighting a broad range of team principles and dynamics.
"A great time was had by all ! Some very useful personal actions were taken away by all. It was a pleasure to be with you."
Group Chairman
Government
DSTL
DSTL
a Government organisation, invited breathingspace to design a team break over a 24 hour period. The team of 40 delegates completed a series of team tasks. The following feedback was received from the client:
"All of the group have said this morning how good the training experience was. We all really enjoyed it and would like to thank you and all of the team for all the effort you put into making it such a successful programme.
I will certainly pass on your name to any of our other groups looking for a team development programme."
Team Leader
