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We’ve formed long-lasting partnerships with many leading professional services firms worldwide. They come back to us again and again to develop and improve their best people. Here our clients tell their stories about the impact we have made on their firms.
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Discover how Openside helped this client to convert more opportunities, kick-start their cultural and behavioural transformation programme internally and better meet the needs of their existing clients.
Discover how Openside’s advisory, training and coaching helped this client to better meet their strategic ambitions, to challenge their status quo and to profoundly impact the way they think and behave.
Discover how this participant used Openside’s ‘live opportunity support’ and the new approaches to business development he’d learned on a training programme to convert €340k of new business for his firm.
We believe the long term effects we have on your firm are the best indicator of our success. All the same, we know that post-training scores and feedback are important and we thought you’d like to find out what people say about us and our tutors. Here are some direct quotes from recent programme feedback forms which you can sort by type of programme attended:
Very insightful and inspiring to reflect on oneself in the professional but partly also personal context.
Excellent trainer with incredible “presence”, highly appreciated expertise and point of view, truly inspiring!
The course exceeded my expectations in terms of added value and useful frameworks. Excellent speakers who encouraged participation and team work.
Great facilitator, I especially enjoyed his energy and great humour! He also brought loads of real-life examples to the course, which made it easier of remember the key learnings.
It was an excellent course which gave solid take-aways and food for thought. I will revise my approaches to consider the ways of working presented.
Useful and well-explained toolkit for improving our approach to clients and projects
The guys were great at driving an engaging, thought-provoking learning session.
The Consulting Skills programme was a great learning experience that challenged my normal approach to framing problems/opportunities
It was like discovering a secret on how to get into the Client’s territory
It will impact my day to day work. Clear identification of do’s and dont’s. Good that content can be shared with other colleagues involved in the selling process.
This was a great course, that has reminded us all again that the biggest value of our work is our critical thinking, which we should do more of every day.
They are very good at challenging our Partners. They make us think differently and they provide very, very good advice. We employ very demanding people and yet we continue to use them regularly.
I had to step out of my comfort zone. Possibility of re-thinking my own and my firm´s behaviour towards our clients.
Best course at the firm so far – External trainers adds another level of professionalism
Maybe sometimes a little too honest with feedback – but I probably need to get used to that! Otherwise perfect, thanks.
I really enjoyed the course – pleasantly surprised! The quality of the external experts was evident.
Encouraged to think and act outside the box. Clear and critical feedback that will certainly help to make us better as a firm.
Fantastic! A valuable set of tools and frameworks that can be immediately applied to my responsibilities
Thanks to the techniques we learnt on the programme we hit the deadline, achieved board sign-off, and delighted the client.
The training was very useful due to the extended experience that the first tutor brought in and the second tutor’s insightful inputs and business knowledge
It taught a forensic type of analysis that I have seen demonstrated but never had explained to me. It’s the type of thing that can save you a lot of time on client engagements.
An excellent introduction into the world of B2B storytelling, with a highly interactive and practical approach.
Ian was one of the best facilitators that I have come across. His insight into the consulting industry, the types of issues that we face when dealing with clients and indeed internally were very useful to me – and I would imagine even more so for the more junior participants.
Very good introduction to the manager “mindset”. Helps new managers to think through academic frameworks.
Flow of training was smooth. Structure very clear. Excellent mix of real life example and inspiring point of views. Truly inspiring! Outside the box thinking. Encouraging!
The trainers were very knowledgeable and I think it was important that they had also background in consulting and therefore were able to talk about things, meetings, occasions that are relevant to consultants. All in all very good training and I would definitely recommend it to my colleagues.
Just wanted to let you know about the case that we worked on in our training. We are about to deliver the final results and are now positioning for a larger project this autumn on the same topic.
Really excellent facilitator. Challenging, clear and very skilful in weaving the morals of real life stories into the training content. Also understood demands of consulting better than most previous trainers.
Dynamic way of presenting. Very good topics. interaction with the team. Live examples, and latest trends.
The program was well structured with engaging group activities that allowed us to put the lessons into practice.
William certainly gave the Partners a lot to think about during his presentations and challenged their thinking. The feedback was so positive.
Really excellent facilitator. Challenging, clear and very skilful in weaving the morals of real life stories into the training content. Also understood demands of consulting better than most previous trainers.
The Consulting Skills programme was a great learning experience that challenged my normal approach to framing problems/opportunities
Ian was one of the best facilitators that I have come across. His insight into the consulting industry, the types of issues that we face when dealing with clients and indeed internally were very useful to me – and I would imagine even more so for the more junior participants.
Thanks to the techniques we learnt on the programme we hit the deadline, achieved board sign-off, and delighted the client.
I really enjoyed the course – pleasantly surprised! The quality of the external experts was evident.
The training was very useful due to the extended experience that the first tutor brought in and the second tutor’s insightful inputs and business knowledge
The trainers were very knowledgeable and I think it was important that they had also background in consulting and therefore were able to talk about things, meetings, occasions that are relevant to consultants. All in all very good training and I would definitely recommend it to my colleagues.
Very insightful and inspiring to reflect on oneself in the professional but partly also personal context.
Fantastic! A valuable set of tools and frameworks that can be immediately applied to my responsibilities
The course exceeded my expectations in terms of added value and useful frameworks. Excellent speakers who encouraged participation and team work.
Very good introduction to the manager “mindset”. Helps new managers to think through academic frameworks.
I had to step out of my comfort zone. Possibility of re-thinking my own and my firm´s behaviour towards our clients.
It taught a forensic type of analysis that I have seen demonstrated but never had explained to me. It’s the type of thing that can save you a lot of time on client engagements.
Great facilitator, I especially enjoyed his energy and great humour! He also brought loads of real-life examples to the course, which made it easier of remember the key learnings.
Maybe sometimes a little too honest with feedback – but I probably need to get used to that! Otherwise perfect, thanks.
It was an excellent course which gave solid take-aways and food for thought. I will revise my approaches to consider the ways of working presented.
Useful and well-explained toolkit for improving our approach to clients and projects
It will impact my day to day work. Clear identification of do’s and dont’s. Good that content can be shared with other colleagues involved in the selling process.
Best course at the firm so far – External trainers adds another level of professionalism
An excellent introduction into the world of B2B storytelling, with a highly interactive and practical approach.
Just wanted to let you know about the case that we worked on in our training. We are about to deliver the final results and are now positioning for a larger project this autumn on the same topic.
It was like discovering a secret on how to get into the Client’s territory
The program was well structured with engaging group activities that allowed us to put the lessons into practice.
The guys were great at driving an engaging, thought-provoking learning session.
Dynamic way of presenting. Very good topics. interaction with the team. Live examples, and latest trends.
They are very good at challenging our Partners. They make us think differently and they provide very, very good advice. We employ very demanding people and yet we continue to use them regularly.
William certainly gave the Partners a lot to think about during his presentations and challenged their thinking. The feedback was so positive.
Flow of training was smooth. Structure very clear. Excellent mix of real life example and inspiring point of views. Truly inspiring! Outside the box thinking. Encouraging!
Encouraged to think and act outside the box. Clear and critical feedback that will certainly help to make us better as a firm.
This was a great course, that has reminded us all again that the biggest value of our work is our critical thinking, which we should do more of every day.
Excellent trainer with incredible “presence”, highly appreciated expertise and point of view, truly inspiring!
And if you’d like to see the hard data, these are our average programme feedback scores over the past three years:
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