Testimonals
External evaluation by Michael Cox, Chambers Ireland Skillnet
  • This extremely innovative corporate learning experience is the way forward for hard-pressed, time-poor executives who seek fresh business perspectives. Your facilitation was enthusiastically praised by both the management and the executive team of your multinational financial services client.

Comments from the CEOs/senior executives who chose to run a Bookbuzz programme:
  • The programme is not only nurturing innovative thinking and best practice leadership skills in our management team, it is also enhancing the engagement of our workforce, and helping us to attract and retain great people.
  • Your sessions push us to leave our normal work-zone and enter a dynamic learning zone.
  • My senior management team completed all their regulatory training obligations, but I had neglected their personal development. Your facilitated sessions have more than filled the gap.

Comments from participants:
  • These sessions are helping us to nurture a learning organisation. This is a rare and welcome opportunity to sit with same-level colleagues and discuss business concepts rather than specific management issues. This is definitely a different concept – and conventional ROI issues do not apply.
  • The programme enriched the relationships in the group, and produced a 180° turn around in the interaction among group members. This is what I call a real team-building exercise.
  • I enjoyed learning new terminology that I can introduce to my own team. The books and the discussions force us to stop and think.
  • In terms of mental headspace, the programme was fantastic. The sessions are often the only time we get to be creative.
  • The sessions are like a decompression chamber – a great opportunity to reflect. I have learned more about my colleagues through the Bookbuzz sessions than I did in the years I have worked with them.

Participant comments on the books:
  • This is one of the first books that I find I can’t skim through.
  • It’s a book about life, not really about work.
  • I hated this book with a passion.
  • I didn’t like the book at first, but I warmed up to the theme.
  • This book feels like an article that was stretched into a book.
  • I don’t like the author’s tone – he’s an intellectual snob and too self-righteous.
  • The book made uncomfortable reading, and made me question myself on issues that I’m not used to facing.

Contrasting participant feedback on the same book:
  • I wanted to punch the author on the nose and throw the book into the bin.
  • The book was a breath of fresh air, I found it fascinating.
Contact
Bookbuzz Ltd.
Pembroke Hall
38-39 Fitzwilliam Square
Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 234 31 00
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