EY.

Connecting Culture and Business - Showing the many facets of your corporate personality and sponsorship.

"Our facilitator, Lily created a safe environment in which to practice engaging an audience. The training was highly practical. I’ve attended a number of presentation skills courses before but this really honed skills in a concise, practice based and creative manner.”

A participant from our EY training.

Beginning.

As part of EY’s staff engagement they involve their employees in their sponsorship of major arts exhibitions. This both encourages engagement in the exhibitions and provide opportunities for a whole new way of interacting with clients. Following a recommendation from Arts & Business, theWholeStory was asked to create training to equip up to 70 participants with the skills to confidently converse about the art with clients at receptions within the exhibitions. This was one of our first major clients and we are delighted to continue to deliver and improve this programme.

Middle.

theWholeStory devised and led workshops applying storytelling skills, techniques and games. The workshops enabled the participants to create and structure art historical information about the exhibition. The workshops also provided the opportunity to acquire and practice the necessary interaction skills. An important element of the workshop was to show that personal opinions or responses can help others find their own initial connection to a work of art, on to which they could then find a broader engagement with it.

End.

The fun but effective workshops allowed participants, from various EY departments and offices, to meet and collaborate together as teams prior to the receptions. The positive, encouraging but also challenging nature pf the process ensured that confidence and self-esteem were boosted. Participants left the creative workshop with a greater understanding of their subject and the tools to speak and interact spontaneously and therefore present themselves and EY in an authentic and friendly manner.