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I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you again for hosting the Cognitive Diversity event last week. The learning you shared was really well received and the feedback was brilliant! Here are just a few quotes: "I've loved this session and will be recommending it to my colleagues." "Amanda, you are a superb speaker. Very engaging." "I really enjoyed that, so knowledgeable and presented in non-academic terms" "Thank you, very interesting and insightful!" "Great session, thank you!". I wanted to thank you for sharing your research into diversity and for bringing it to life for our William Hill leaders and colleagues.

Massive thanks to Amanda and Helen for working with myself and senior leaders from across our business to identify and create our new Leadership Capabilities. The ‘Blueprint’ provided a great approach to understanding what brilliance looks like in our leaders and the Zircon BeTalent team made the whole process simple and impactful.

We recently engaged in a virtual executive team exercise with Amanda and Zircon BeTalent which included the strengths card sort exercise. This was a great way of each member of the team showing what they valued in each of the other members and it also showed a really clear and consistent picture of what each member brings to the table with very clear themes highlighted in each case. It was a very effective way of getting everyone to open up and give a little of themselves in the spirit of building the team dynamic.

Having been a BeTalent customer for the past 4 years, my favourite product is the Strengths Questionnaire particularly when used with the Strengths Card Sort exercise. We have used the questionnaire and card sort for our executive team events, and for workshops run across our business. The questionnaire gives great insight into what people enjoy at work and where they spend their time. It helps colleagues to understand how they show up as a colleague or leader. The cards are great in a team event, I particularly like the “gifting” exercise where everyone offers one card to a colleague and says why they appreciate that strength. A fabulous exercise and very motivating for all.

Very grateful to Amanda and the Zircon BeTalent team for the Psychological Safety tool. We used it in a church setting, to help us get a realistic assessment of the health of our leadership team and how we function together. Using a 'tool' meant we swiftly got to the heart of issues that would have otherwise taken a long time to reach. We were reassured and encouraged by so much of what we learnt, and felt on a good foundation to take further steps forward.

Working with Tina and the BeTalent Psychological Safety Questionnaire has been critical for the Finance team to move forward to create an environment of psychological safety and towards our ambition to develop into a high performance team. The tool and materials are insightful and very user friendly. Tina’s facilitation ensured the team understood the concepts, created an environment where all team members were comfortable, brought the results to life and ensured the team have concrete actions we can take forward. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

Decision Styles is by far my favourite. I have found it to be extremely valid, and clearly describes each of the different styles of decision making. I believe that this is the right tool for the assessment of our future leaders. It works well in combination with the Strengths Questionnaire and Values Fit and is great for board development.

Our sales sectors is really seeing the benefit from using the BeTalent Resilience profiles and we are moving on that team’s development with BeTalent decision styles. The team are really excited and bought into the concept of cognitive diversity and decision success.

Of all the BeTalent tools, Resilience was the first one I was accredited and the one that has made the most impactful change. The Amanda an the team run a fantastic accreditation session which leaves you fully immersed in resilience and raring to implement it in your business. Great addition to our Coventry Building Society leadership talent programmes.

Dr Amanda Potter and the BeTalent developed a L&D programme for a group of EMEA leaders within LSEG, where we were able to assess the team’s resilience, strengths, psychological safety and culture fit. The tools developed by Zircon go beyond the strengths and weaknesses; they generate insightful strengths results, risk and threats. In a team setting, the BeTalent products empowered us to have a combined view of our collective strengths and risks and gaps. That created the foundations for us to focus our Leadership L&D efforts in areas where we will have the most impact. I strongly recommend the BeTalent tools, support and delivery. Insightful, reliable and professional.

Psychological safety was not a new term for many of us at the RDSBL Leadership team, however, Zircon is helping us make this part and parcel of our culture. The work we are doing with Zircon is taking us through an important journey where the leadership team at RDSBL are feeling encouraged to share ideas and we are all discussing mistakes as learning opportunities. This clearly aligns with our institutional values of Courage, Diversity and Passion.

Strengths based coaching and facilitation using the BeTalent Strengths questionnaire has substantially impacted and helped raise the standards of the teams in the GE Power and Purdey factories. The strengths tool has been truly remarkable at getting to the heart of issues and understanding what energises the team. It is refreshing to focus on what works, rather than what is broken.

We have used the Strengths questionnaire and card sort exercise across the globe to identify the Strengths and potential gaps in the global leadership teams. It has helped us to understand what we enjoy doing at work, how we would like to work together, and how we could more effectively work with each other. It has changed the way we talk to each other and the tone of the conversation.

I have used the Resilience Questionnaire and Card Sort to great effect with individuals and teams. The tools encourage self-reflection and enable informed thinking about resilience strengths and development areas. By building awareness and offering insights into how to grow resilience the questionnaires and the report that is generated provide real benefit and can be a great way to develop great conversations of benefit to the client and coach.

I am a big fan of the BeTalent Strengths questionnaire I use it a lot within my business, predominantly around development. My business was going through a huge period of growth and so it was a really useful tool which helped us to evaluate areas where we could draw upon people who were going to take us to the next level. BeTalent have given me the tools, skills and knowledge to keep developing my business on an ongoing basis.

Dear Amanda, thank you so much to you and your team for delivering such an inspiring and insightful Psychological Safety session to our UK GWEN members. We really appreciate the time spent messaging something so important to our teams.

We delivered a BeTalent Psychological Safety group session for one of the sectors using their group report and there were some surprising revelations. This opened everyone's eyes & they went away with a clear action point from this about what they can do differently. The process and the facilitation was great - was awesome to see some real revelations & lightbulb moments.

Talent Fit has brought a different perspective to way we talk about, find, support, develop and grow our talent. The ambiguity around what talent and potential is has been demystified with clear, purposeful links to organisation wide vision, goals and strategy. But, perhaps more importantly are the team behind the product. Amanda and her entire team simplify the sometimes complex world of occupational psychology. Their personal, human centred approach ensures you get a business that understands you, your organisation and works with you to deliver great outcomes that support the bottom line.

I am thankful to Amanda and her team for making the process of tailoring, implementing, and administering the Blended 360 tool very straightforward. Amanda and her team worked alongside me to tailor the tool to embody and encapsulate the essence of the values and culture of the organisation. It was a rigorous and challenging process, so I was grateful for Amanda's support and challenge to ensure that we had the right mix of questions. The questionnaire was easy to complete but also thought provoking.

The team at Zircon managed the administration process for me very professionally and provided regular status updates. They also co-ordinated all of the one-to-one feedback sessions and produced a summary report of the overall themes. High praise was received from each of the participants, I would highly recommend using Zircon BeTalent products, they have been built with a level of insight and user friendliness that I have not found elsewhere.