The Kentro Capital group of companies offer colleagues a range of opportunities for professional development, including activities which support their mental health and wellbeing. We engaged our partners at Zing on various occasions to facilitate workshops to help individuals understand themselves and each other better, and to feel confident in expressing themselves and their needs at work.
The feedback we received from participants in these events was entirely positive. Almost all participants reported having learnt something new about their colleagues during these events. The majority reported they learnt options for improving their experience at work and new ways to express themselves and their needs. Many indicated the session motivated them to participate in other development activities. Some said, after the session, they felt empowered to ask for what they needed to be effective at work and more engaged with their work than before.
One of the business leaders whose team participated in a Zing workshop observed, "Matt was a fantastic presence in the training and was quick to make the entire team feel comfortable. We all went in open minded but were expecting to find out more about ourselves and each other than ways to actually apply what we had learnt to improve personal and professional relationships. We have all managed to improve our approach to our individual brokers and markets, all seeing successes. Matt also did a follow up meeting with the team which allowed us to ask any questions on things that may not have gone as expected and, from that, we managed to improve yet again."