“Spectacular presenting!" Stoke City Council Family Hub away day with me! April 2025

Greetings one and all,

I recently had the most wonderful of training days with staff from Stoke on Trent City Council’s Family Hubs. The learners were clearly motivated to learn and threw themselves into the various activities that I created for them. Activities that reflected and reinforced the importance of their job roles, emotional intelligence, keeping an eye on stress levels and open communication. 

I loved every single minute of the day with the troops. Wonderful professionals making a difference to families across Stoke on Trent.

I was asked to create a bespoke training day that would be enjoyable, entertaining and educational.  I think I hit all of those elements and more.  We laughed, we learned and we played my brand-new bespoke board-game!  Which took me absolutely ages to create!  But hey, hard work pays - when you put the work in – you get the sort of feedback that I’m about to share with you: 

1.      “Spectacular presenting!  Informative and engaging!” 

2.      “Fantastic, engaging and informative session that I thoroughly enjoyed.  What a GREAT way to end the week!”

3.      “A very good trainer!  I will definitely be booking onto his next round of training!  😊”

4.      “What can I say?  Absolutely fantastic training, delivered by a true professional.  I loved every single minute of it today.  Thank you so much Steven. 😊” 

5.      “Steven was amazing, funny YET informative. A really enjoyable day that brought the team together, thank you for that 😊”

6.      “The training was very informative with plenty of reminders of the importance of self-care.  The training was delivered in a very engaging way using a vast array of learning methods.  The trainer (Steven) was fantastic!  Thank you!”

7.      “Thank you Steven, it was a great day, I really enjoyed it and found it extremely valuable.  You also made me comfortable and included.”   

8.      “A thoroughly enjoyable day.  Informative, thought-provoking and great, GREAT fun!  The best training I have ever attended EVER!”

9.      “The session was both informative and amusing.  It was a great team building day – excellent!” 

10.  “I really liked the discussions and the games that we played.  Steven was very engaging.  There were lots to go away and think about, especially after watching the film that he made for us.” 

11.  “Steven made the day fun and informative, all in all a GREAT DAY AT WORK!” 

12.  “Steven, you were brilliant and made it a very easy and enjoyable experience to take part in all of the tasks.  I personally loved the personal touches that you created in your board game and the training film.” 

13.  “A brilliant course, very interactive, I was able to focus on us as a team and where are strengths and weaknesses lie. The course was really enjoyable.” 

14.  “Wonderful – as ever!  And so - so needed, learning, laughing, teaching, with kindness and humour. Thank you Steven, very, very much.” 

15.  “I really enjoyed the day, full of useful information and areas to reflect upon.  All relevant and fun.” 

16.  “This was fabulous, engaging training with lots of things to think about, self-awareness, interactions, emotional wellbeing etc.” 

17.  “Very informative and practical.  The learning was fun and I was never bored!  Great learning throughout and Steven’s engaging style made it all real and relevant.”