Extracts from Media Releases
July 16, 2007
1. ‘Operation Teamleader…is a big investment from our company. The business has made the commitment but it’s reaping dividends already…Ms Lake (Training and Development Manager) said she had a 25% improvement in performance among the staff who had been taught by (Operation Teamleader)’
Western Mail (Business Section)
24 May 2005
From Laing O’Rourke Press Release
2. ‘(Operation Teamleader) has been a huge success and the benefits substantial…in the way people were genuinely motivated through their improved awareness and practice of leadership skills’
‘Update’ Laing Utilities newsletter
October 2004
Ms Mel Lake
Training and Development Manager
Laing Utilities
3. ‘‘If Carlsberg ran a training course, then this would be it’’
‘Update’ Laing O’Rourke Infrastructure newsletter
August 2005
Comment from:
Mr Tony Matheson
Project Leader
Laing O’Rourke Infrastructure
4. ‘the course was designed to imbed (the) lessons within the context of a memorable adventure, thus helping to lodge what we had learned more firmly within our minds. I can tell you that this works!…what I think we all gained from this experience was a greater belief in ourselves. Confidence that we, as individuals, are capable of much more than we might previously have supposed…I would whole-heartedly recommend it to any lucky souls who have the opportunity to participate in the future’
Xchanging internal newsletter
December 2005
Mr Byron Hunte
Customer Relationship Manager
Xchanging
5. ‘the leadership development weekends…helped develop a deeper understanding and bonding between managers, whilst identifying individual strengths and weaknesses and assisting in the improvement of perceived deficiencies… it is likely that improvements in management and personal skills of certain key staff have assisted in the Company enjoying a record profit in 2002, achieving double that recorded in 2001. The intuition, mutual respect and camaraderie developed on the training weekends would undoubtedly have assisted in the many high pressure business situations which face the company from time to time’
Draft of conference presentation
University of Wales, Lampeter
November 2002
Mr Nigel Williams
Finance Director
Castell Howell Foods Ltd
