Training and Coaching Testimonials
Comments from Core training and coaching clients:
"I would like to thank you for the excellent course you ran yesterday and today. It has awoken lost thoughts and skills in my brain and I intend to try and keep using these..."
Participant in a Core In-House course
"It sounds like a cliche but is nevertheless true: Core's flagship Mediation and Conflict Management course was the best, most valuable and rewarding training course I have attended and is undoubtedly a hard act to follow."
Participant in our Mediation and Conflict Management Skills course
"In 20 years of attending educational and skills training courses, I am happy to say that this was the most informative, useful and enjoyable I have yet been to."
Partner, law firm, commenting on Core's Mediation and Conflict Management Skills course
“It was a brilliantly constructed and delivered session - and impressed even the cynics.”
Managing Partner, law firm, commenting on a Core in-house course on mediation
“Quite the best I have been on. I was genuinely very impressed. I can see that the techniques we were being taught were used in the conception and delivery of the course itself.”
Partner, professional services firm
“My colleagues both work on very high profile projects which require them to deal with a good deal of conflict and I consider your course to be the best there is in helping anyone to meet these challenges.”
Senior manager in major accountancy firm
“Excellent course. Entertainingly presented with high quality trainers. Has given me more cause for thought than most other courses I have attended. I increasingly became convinced over the course that mediation can and does work.”
Corporate adviser, oil and gas company
“John delivered the 'Dealing with Conflict' module for UK Sports 'Elite Coach Program'. Great material and very skilled at delivering! This was one of the most beneficial 2 day courses I’ve attended.”
UK Olympic Elite Coach
“This was one of the most valuable learning experiences I have had in years. The presenters and other contributors were superb. Never seen better.”
Senior NHS Professional
“As good as they come, seriously. A great many lawyers and non-lawyers would benefit from what you teach”.
Participant in a Core negotiation course
“A huge thank you to you for a well put together and delivered session yesterday which really achieved my objectives and those of the team. The feedback I have received has been hugely positive and everyone found it worthwhile and educational.”
In house mediation training for a financial organisation
"This course was much more challenging than most”
Fund manager on a questioning techniques course
“I enjoyed the course, and feel that it was a most useful exercise in general as well as in relation to mediation in particular. I wish to express my appreciation to you and all your colleagues for the excellent way in which you conducted the whole course. You made a learning experience a pleasure!”
Member of the Bar
“I found the course exhilarating, extremely hard work and most thought provoking. This course has been far more useful as it concentrated very much on my development as well as giving me the opportunity of benefiting from others’ experiences.”
Senior manager in Top 3 accountancy firm
“Just a brief note to thank you for a most excellent course yesterday. Many who attended had little real experience of the mediation process and the feed back is that everyone found the course stimulating and rewarding.”
Partner in law firm, commenting on in-house mediation training
“I thought the course was superb - one of the most fulfilling (albeit difficult) experiences I have ever had….it has made me think very differently about what I have been doing for the last 20 years … and may even have changed my outlook on life to a significant degree!”
Senior legal practitioner
“It was quite unlike any other course in which I have participated. I found the whole approach most refreshing and thought provoking. As I have said in my questionnaire, it is the most enjoyable course which I have ever attended”
Participant in communication skills course for senior professionals
“The course has given a tremendous boost to my overall confidence……best course in my career”
Court room advocacy
“The most motivating and rewarding course I've ever participated in.”
Head of Personnel, nationwide public sector service agency
“Far superior to other skills courses”
Training for witnesses in tribunals
“I had to write this. What an exhilarating two days of learning. …I have never before got to the end of a training day and felt thoroughly disappointed that we had to stop - that says it all.”
Participant in mediation course
“This is as good as anything else I have attended and better than similar courses run by external suppliers.”
Feedback from Advanced Negotiation Course
“For the first time I have been given permission to interact humanly with my clients and have been given the tools that enable me to do so skilfully. I now feel equipped to act much more respectfully for my clients, understanding their human needs as well as their legal ones. The result is that I understand my clients’ aims, needs and pain much more thoroughly and am therefore better able to act effectively on their behalf. I see the evidence of the difference in approach daily.”
Family lawyer
“I find the Core training to be the best I have experienced in my time in private practice because of the ability to get underneath the surface of what is going on.”
Partner in large law firm
“Virtually everyone present reported it to be the one of the most informative and engaging courses they had ever participated in and in that regard I must convey my grateful thanks [to your team] for making it all possible.”
Feedback following a course for local authority valuers
“Thank you to you both for a stimulating and thought provoking 2 days. As always you hit exactly the right note and I have come in the morning to emails from the group saying how much they enjoyed the session and with ideas for the future.”
Legal adviser to a leading university
“I am now converted to mediation as a fantastic means of enabling people to see solutions where they could not.”
Partner, large law firm
“I loved this course. For me it was a perfect blend of challenging tasks, intellectual stimulation, support and encouragements, team work and fun.”
Banking Lawyer
“Fabulous, top quality training, busy and crammed full of new skills and experiences. I loved it.”
Public sector official
“I've just returned from the situation about which I told you last week, where we used the mediation techniques to help resolve a very difficult dispute. Our visit today was hugely helped by the methodology we used and the outcome was better even than I could have hoped for. Thank you!”
Senior manager in national organisation
“Had it not been for your coaching I would not have had the inspiration, the courage or the set of tools to pick up the phone to my client and achieve by consensus in two hours what we would otherwise have spent months trying to achieve by a bitter court case.”
Solicitor in family dispute