Stafford Long & Partners (Recruitment Advertising)

"Stafford Long has now moved away from an overly structured, PowerPoint based approach to new business meetings, to a more personal approach which is already paying dividends.’
Paul Stafford

"Inspire responded well to our brief by providing an imaginative and enjoyable workshop. The informal style helped us to work well with each other, build our confidence and lose our inhibitions. It was a challenging workshop and we now have a much more creative, team-focused approach to preparing for new business presentations as a result."
Sian Thomas, Accounts Manager, Stafford, Long & Partners

Business Challenge

Inspire was asked to support Stafford Long’s in-house development programme by designing a series of workshops, to include people from across the business, i.e. ‘Creatives’, Account Managers and New Business Managers.
The workshops were intended to:

• Nurture increased confidence and success in new business meetings.
• Enhance individual presentation skills.
• Strengthen team relationships

How Inspire Helped

Inspire created a series of experiential, 2-day workshops, using a mix of rapport-building, communications and presentation skills techniques. Group members worked individually, in pairs and in small teams and were encouraged to be powerful resources for each other throughout the programme.

Outcomes

By encouraging the team to step outside their comfort zones, explore new ways of working, and direct their energies to finding out about their customers’ needs, the workshop provided the managers with a greater mix of personal resources to use in both new and familiar business situations.