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Napier City Council 

Team Building and Strategic Planning Days

Thank you very much for the team building and strategic planning days that you organised for my staff.

From the feedback I received it was obvious that they enjoyed the experience and learnt a lot from it. Even those who were less than enthusiastic at the start thanked me for the opportunity once it was finished.

My staff commended you for providing a safe and constructive environment in which they were able to participate fully. I believe this was a highly successful event which will help set the tone for how they work together into the future.

Leadership Development Coaching

Gail, I found your coaching to be of great use; your insightful and direct manner enabled me to explore aspects of my management style that helped me improve as a leader.

You were able to break down my perceptions, examine my behaviour and come up with useful techniques to improve my performance. You have a refreshing style, a good sense of humour and you are always seeking to drill down to the real crux of the matter.

Dennis Morgan
Community Development Manager

Integrity Soil

Gail when I first approached you it was for help with a small issue in my personal life and I thought my business was moving along just fine. Wow! What a huge gearshift has occurred since you’ve been my mentor; in both my personal life and in my business.

You’ve been the spark I needed to fire up my dreams, which in turn has led to my latest initiative; convening the first NZ Soil Carbon Conference. This conference brought scientists, and politicians together with successful farming practitioners.

The conference has received huge acclaim from scientists, industry players and farmers, and has led to the creation of an incorporated body to support the rapidly growing biological agriculture sector.

Organising this conference was not all plain sailing; when I hit a situation I couldn’t cope with, you gave me some invaluable tools that enabled me to keep the stress levels manageable for the rest of the organisation process.

I do, in all honesty, recommend you to anyone interested in really finding that golden work/life balance and achieving their dreams. Gail you rock!

Nicole Masters

Enliven   

As a service manager I have used the services of Positive Pathways for both individual staff coaching and group work and had excellent results in both areas.

Gail has been particularly helpful in assisting staff to achieve their potential, whilst maintaining their professional boundaries, as the service goes through a rapid growth and development phase. This has allowed us to remain focused on issues, not personalities, as more and more people join the team.

This process has been challenging at times but the result has been a much happier, more productive team who are increasingly clear on what their role is.

Jennifer Mather
Service Manager

Aon

Attitude, Impact, Results workshops

When you said you could achieve the results I wanted I admit I had my doubts; I just couldn’t see how you could tailor a workshop to meet the needs of such a diverse group and get the results I was after. I needn’t have worried because not only did you more than deliver results; your training brought the participants much closer.

Several of the group have commented to me that they really appreciated the way you adjusted the format to get the best result for the group and yet you still managed to achieve the remit we had agreed on.

They’ve all used the tools you gave them and because they’ve seen the benefits, individual managers have passed the tools onto their teams and followed up on the results.

This is what training should be all about; buy in by the participants and then them choosing to put their learning into practice.   Russell Bailey, General Manager, Central Region

Aon Managers' Conference

I recently asked Gail to run three workshops with various experienced staff.  The courses had no Insurance Knowledge value; they  were intended to get our people to think outside the square in their business and personal life.

Following these courses, I asked Gail to run an exercise at the conference to help the managers to really understand what their staff needed in support for them to progress further.

The group, as Managers failed in the actual exercise; however the discussion and analysed results that followed certainly achieved what I wanted.

This simple activity changed the minds, and attitudes of the Managers; not only towards the staff who had attended the workshops but towards all staff.

Comments from 2 attendees at the conference. 

Tony Jensen – “We took part in a ‘ball game’ that was all about working together. It was a stark reminder to me of the need to work and consult with each other for a common goal. One of my staff  recently attended a 2 day workshop with Gail which has helped her take amazing steps forward. Interestingly she and her peers performed much better at this exercise than we did!”

Chris Moses – “I found this to be a very stimulating, thought provoking exercise. I took away from it the knowledge that if a team works together to achieve the same goal, they are less likely to ‘drop their balls’ through the ‘wrong hole’ than when ignoring the team as a whole and concentrating only on what they are personally doing"!

Pan Pac Forest Products Limited

I have this year used Positive Pathways coaching program to develop some of the senior managers in the Pulp Division, which is an export manufacturing operation with sales of about $140 million.

Following a bad experience from a similar program from another provider, I initially commenced with a pilot program in order to prove the performance of Gail Page from Positive Pathways.
 
The results exceeded my expectations with very positive benefits for the person being coached. The individual now has greatly reduced stress levels and has improved time efficiencies and work productivity.

Due to the success of the pilot, the program has now been extended to other managers and results are apparent even at an early stage.

I find working with Gail a positive experience and she is excellent at her job, with especially excellent skills in her one to one coaching style, which is a large part of the success of the program.

I am happy to recommend the program if you allow her to evaluate the individuals to ensure that they are ready to and accept the need for such a program.

F. Staples
Pulp General Manager

Carlyle Medical Centre

Following the recent team building day you had with our administration staff I would like to thank you and comment that I have had nothing but positive feedback from the staff.

Comments like ‘great day’, ‘really inspirational’, ‘would love to do it again’, and ‘felt it was really worthwhile’, makes the company feel they made a good move. It also has inspired the company to look at maybe doing a team building day for everyone.

Linda Kerr
Practice Manager

EDK

Due to illness we were left without an effective leader and communicator. Our staff struggled and our credibility suffered due to poor performance, quality control and lack of communications.

Gail has helped me emotionally and also in setting some business goals and finding some direction. The correct procedures, systems and KPI’s have now been put in place which has had a huge impact upon staff morale and has saved us $13,000 in the last month.

Gail’s no nonsense approach and no second best are directions which we all need to follow. Her  persistence has dragged the best out of the team at EDK and as one  member of the team said, “Gail’s a kick ass coach” and I think he’s right;.

I would recommend Gail Page from Positive Pathways to any business wanting to flourish and set itself apart from its competitors and be leaders in their fields.

Murray Nattrass
Managing Director

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