Projects for young people - Comedy School London.

The Comedy School

C O R P O R A T E T E S T I M O N I A L S

Dave Thornton Ltd - 'Stand Apart Not Alone'

"From a personal point of view I would like to extend a big thank you to you and all your team for making us all so welcome, the day ran very smoothly.

What I saw was a group coming together through laughter (and we don't do a lot of that in the NHS) and yet equally getting some personal insights and development too."

Thanks
Dave Thornton

www.Happen.com
'Turning Ideas Into Value - Making New Things Happen'

"Wanted to say a huge thank you for the session that you run, feedback from the team was that everyone took a great deal out of the session and really enjoyed it. Glowing reviews, you did is proud!

It was great to work with you and we really felt like you understood the brief and purpose for why we decided to run the session. I appreciate it was not the most conventional location and really appreciate you guys doing such a fantastic job!

Let's stay in touch and we would love you to come to our next Friends of Happen event."

Thanks again,
Becki Haskins - Innovative Agent - www.happen.com

The CarbonNeutral Company

"The team thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I thought it was most interesting as well as fun. It certainly set us up for a very good evening!

Thank you very much I thought the service that provided was professional, thoughtful and fun! I will certainly keep you in mind for any future events / training and tell others how good you are!"

Best regards,
Nathan Wimble - European Sales Director
The CarbonNeutral Company

National Breaking Through Initiative

"In January 2010 participants from the NHS Top Talent programme as part of their final event visited and worked with colleagues from the Comedy School. To say the day was a success would be an understatement.

The programme was meticulously planned and from the first minute participants were made to feel comfortable and relaxed. The laughter started soon after.

Many of the participants were anxious about what would be expected of them as they unable to see the relevance of comedy to their everyday lives in the NHS. How wrong they were.

The programme showed them how to improvise, how to think on their feet and how to feel confident when standing up in front of colleagues, all skills highly relevant to senior leaders in the NHS.

The comedy school might not at first seem a natural personal development choice for serious NHS managers but in the event it turned out to be one of the most highly evaluated and popular development modules on the programme."

Yvonne Coghill OBE
Director, National Breaking Through Initiative

Professor David Clutterbuck

I do a lot of public speaking and use humour to build rapport with audiences all over the world. But there's a big difference between using humour and being funny. So I wanted to learn how to use humour more intensively, with more punch and in different environments than management conferences and lecture halls.

The Comedy School course helped me build on my natural humour and irreverence. I learned timing, how to structure jokes more effectively and how to achieve greater comic impact through fewer words.

I started to apply some of these lessons in my day job and received immediate positive feedback.

About half-way through the course, I was told by one audience that this was the most entertaining workshop they had ever attended!

I've learned to capture and work on the quirky observations I so often make, turning them into something stronger and more biting.

I heartily recommend The Comedy School to anyone, who spends a lot of time in front of an audience."

Professor David Clutterbuck
Clutterbuck Associates
'World leading experts in mentoring and coaching'